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    — With only a brash waterfront urchin as crew, Pete sets sail in his old schooner, pursued by the "tall one: in a radar-equipped yacht. — Outwitting the enemy in a storm, they find the prize guarded by a monster octopus, and the menacing black yacht again on their trail.

    Stories of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides who participated in the resistance in many countries during World War II.

    Well he might, for had he known that he would find his uncle and cousin thieves as well as near murderers, he might never have entered that house of mistrust. Hugh would have missed many an adventure at sea on the ship Good Intent if he had not gone to seek his inheritance that night. And he would never have known Skip from Beacon Hill or Rimatara of the South Seas. But he did go, and his story is the story of adventure on the sea in a Nantucket whaling ship, captained by the man who was his worst enemy, Davy Macy.

    This is the tale of the adventures of a ten-year-old Indian girl who helps her father, Kundan Lal, recover his stolen medal, the jewelled Star of India, a family heirloom given the grandfather by the Rids of Kunwar for service to his village.