An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. From the Publisher: He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog"...

In Antarctica, the penguins and the seals share their world with their enemies, the skuas and the leopard seals, but the most dangerous enemy may be Man.