New Releases by Bjarne B. Reuter

Tom O''Connor, a street-smart and fatherless boy who lives on the Caribbean island of Nevis, rescues a Spaniard named Ramón and his slave, Boto, from a shipwreck, and then discovers the slave is the son of an African king who would pay a fortune in gold for the return of his son. Tom decides he will return the boy and claim the reward. Suggested level: secondary.

In this third novel in the trilogy about Buster Oregon Mortensen, Buster''s father has at last entered a rehab clinic, and his teacher Rosa, although unmarried, is nine months pregnant. Buster''s neighbor, Mr. Larsen, has fallen into a dangerous depression, and Buster himself is now in a remedial class. Change threatens even Buster''s neighborhood, Brønshøj, in the form of a wily real-estate developer.

In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.

The adventures and misadventures of Buster, a highly imaginative Danish schoolboy, come to a climax when he must take over the lead role in the school play on the night of the performance.

Buster''s magic tricks get him in and out of trouble.