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NINE UNLIKELY TALES OSWALD BASTABLE AND OTHERS by Nesbil. E.

NINE UNLIKELY TALES OSWALD BASTABLE AND OTHERS

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Publisher: Coward-McCann

Announcing five additions to the Signal Books series designed to stimulate the reading interests of the slow older reader. The stories in vocabulary, sentence structure and type face are suited to the fourth grade reading level, though the subjects concern teenagers. Included is a girl's story of a high school senior who recognizes the importance of education, a boy's story of a young man who enlists in the Coast Guard and develops some important character traits, a baseball story, a tale of friendship between a fur trapper's son and an Indian lad set during the French and Indian War, and a mystery set in the Florida Keys concerning underwater treasure.