New Releases by Gillian Cross

Two young people discover unknown strengths within themselves when one of them is kidnapped and the other tries to save him.

Lovingly and meticulously restored from the manuscript and other sources, this text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation. It includes all of the first edition illustrations, which Mark Twain called "rattling good."

When the elephant came to town, Tad and Cissie went to the show like everyone else. Little did they know it would change their lives for ever. Because of the elephant, Tad and Cissie get involved in a chase across America, by train, by flatboat, and steam boat. Close behind is Hannibal Jackson, who is determined to have the elephant for himself. And how do you hide a large Indian elephant?

Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter's settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist.