Blank Confession by Pete Hautman is a cross between a mystery and an adventure about a mysterious boy named Shayne Blank who walks into a police department and confesses he committed a crime. His story is that he is new in town and attends a new high school. The first friend he meets apparently owes 500 dollars that he doesn't have and doesn't, in fact, owe to a high school drug lord. Shayne and Mikey must try to mend the situation and bring down the drug lord's drug operation in the process. They do this by using the crazy fighting skills that Shayne has.
The War To End All Wars: World War 1 by Russell Freedman deals with the entire story of World War 1. This book contains the reasons that prompted the war, and the events that ended the war, as well as interesting stories that happened during the war. Readers will find out why World War 1 was the first war where individual countries were capable of inflicting millions of casualties upon each other. You will also learn some things about how World War 1 flowed into World War II. There are powerful pictures here, taken during the war, some of actual battles.
