In 1613 Japan, English orphan Jack Fletcher's determination to keep the rutter, his father's navigational logbook, safe at all costs places his friends, daimyo Takatomi, and others in great danger.

Orphaned by a ninja pirate attack off the coast of Japan in 1611, twelve-year-old English lad Jack Fletcher is determined to prove himself, despite the bullying of fellow students, when the legendary sword master who rescued him begins training him as a samurai warrior.

The Ninja Meercats accompany their mentor, Grandmaster One-Eye, to a reunion in Chile, and when he is kidnapped by the Ringmaster's followers, their search leads them to Antarctica, where they face penguins and a seal army.

During their first assignment to protect a famous bridge builder, Naruto and two other junior ninjas face a formidable opponent in Zabuza, the evil Demon of the Mist.

"In a terrific twist on the original tale of The Gingerbread Man, follow the amazing Ninjabread Man as he dips and dives out of danger!"--

Ninja-in-training Naruto must abandon his jokester ways when he receives his first assignment to protect a famous bridge builder.

In this twist on the traditional tale, Cinderella trains as a ninja warrior to help her escape the control of her evil stepmother and attend a special Magic Festival at the palace. The reader is given chances throughout the text to choose the direction of the plot.

Flat Stanley mails himself to Japan to visit his hero, martial arts movie star Oda Nobu, and becomes his personal ninja.

The Ringmaster is planning to steal a golden mask from a burial chamber beneath an Egyptian pyramid. The meerkats must risk the pyramid's boobytraps to save the mask!

Ghost can become invisible, Cormac can run up walls, and Kate can talk to animals--all talents that make them perfect recruits for the Black Lotus, a training school for the ninjas who are sworn to protect the world from the evil Samurai-run Empire and its plot to find the Moon Sword, a dangerous, powerful weapon in sixteenth-century Japan.