William Pene DuBois

Relates the adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman, a disillusioned schoolteacher, who in 1883 sets off in a giant balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.

Story of the most incredibly fabulous voyage around the world.

Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.

[This book] describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a novel gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town of Quiquendone. As the town bore no charges, the offer is gladly accepted. The hidden interest of Dr. Ox is however not lighting, but large scale experiment on effect of oxygen on plants, animals and humans. He uses electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen...