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In this tale told in rhyme, a boy rushes into Gloucester to tell everyone about a serpent in the bay. The people enjoy watching the beast and are sad when it leaves. The next summer the men decide to capture the serpent, but the boy hopes that it stays hidden.

The inhabitants of Pern are threatened by a band of renegades that attempts to expose them to deadly airborne spores in the atmosphere.

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis.

It's not easy to stay out of trouble when four brothers live under one rooftop. So nine-year-old Will's parents send him and his brother Marty, age ten, to the library three times a week, to the kids' absolute horror. After all, that's mean old librarian Spud Murphy's domain, who is rumored to use a "spud gun" on misbehaving kids.