Alexander Steele

Rick Duffield

Only Wishbone, a hero with a courageous canine heart and four mighty sea legs can conquer the great white whale in this quest inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Original.

Moby Dog

Brad Strickland

Barbara Strickland

Jonathan Swift

When Joe's team is in the running for the basketball playoffs, Wishbone is reminded not to judge people by size as he imagines himself as the seventeenth-century traveler, Lemuel Gulliver, whose adventures included visits to Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.

Gullifur's Travels

When he accompanies Joe and his friends to look for treasure in the condemmed Trumbull barn, Wishbone imagines himself as young Jim Hawkins who acquires a treasure map and soon finds himself involved with dangerous pirates.

Salty Dog

Nancy Butcher

When the Drake brothers return to their hometown to make a movie about Oakdale during the 1880s and Joe lands a role in the film, someone tries to sabotage the movie, so Joe and Wishbone must catch the culprit before the production is canceled.

Lights! Camera! Action Dog!

When Joe and Wishbone must confront a scary neighbor who owns a big mean dog, Wishbone imagines himself as the hero Beowulf of Geatland who helps King Hrothgar rid his kingdom of the terrible monster Grendel.

Be a Wolf!

Michael Jan Friedman

An intrigue involving the election of class president reminds Wishbone of the twin brother of King Louis XIV of France who must decide if he should risk everything to escape his iron mask and trade it for the king's crown.

The Mutt in the Iron Muzzle

Alexandre Dumas

Bill Crider

Locked out of the school while Joe and his friends are inside, Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.

Muttketeer!

During a fast-paced roller hockey game in which an awkward boy is humiliated by the other players, Wishbone imagines himself as Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, who defeats his enemies and saves the life of a beautiful gypsy.

Hunchdog of Notre Dame

Joanne Barkan

Joe and David publish a sports newsletter using new technology that will be better than the existing paper. The idea of new being better than old reminds Wishbone of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

A Pup in King Arthur's Court

Walter Scott

Nancy Holder

Wishbone imagines himself as Ivanhoe in England during the late twelfth century when Robin Hood and his band of men ruled the forest.

Ivanhound

Anne Capeci

When David comes home to discover that the F.B.I. believes that he is a notorious computer hacker who has been using computer expertise to steal money, Joe, Wishbone, and their friends must find the real criminal before David lands in jail.

Case of the Cyber-hacker

Carla Jablonski

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

When the pitching machine goes haywire while Joe and his third grade friends are practicing baseball, Wishbone imagines himself as Philip, an apprentice who takes on a powerful, evil sorcerer.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

A. D. Francis

Joe's decision to start a grocery delivery business to make a lot of money causes Wishbone to imagine himself as King Midas, whose fondest wish is to have the golden touch.

Rick Duffield

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