Most Popular Books by Harold Keith

Winner of the Newbery Medal * An ALA Notable Children’s Book * Winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award A captivating and richly detailed novel about one young soldier who saw the Civil War from both sides and lived to tell the tale. Earnest, plain-spoken sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey has finally gotten his father’s consent to join the Union volunteers. It’s 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff is eager to fight for the North before the war is over, which he’s sure will be soon. But weeks turn to months, the marches through fields and woods prove endless, hunger and exhaustion seem to take up permanent residence in Jeff’s bones, and he learns what it really means to fight in battle—and to lose friends. When he finds himself among enemy troops, he’ll have to put his life on the line to advance the Union cause. Thoroughly researched and based on firsthand accounts, Rifles for Watie “should hold a place with the best Civil War fiction for young people” (The Horn Book). A strong choice for independent reading and for sharing in a classroom and for homeschooling. As a homeschool cooperative teacher commented: "The book has launched many discussions in our class. When a person is on one side of a conflict, it is important to remember that people on the other side are also people. Jeff is a perfect model for how treating people with respect can happen even in war."

Football tradition at the University of Oklahoma still runs strong, as does the record of forty-seven consecutive victories that legendary coach Bud Wilkinson and his players set in the 1950s. Approached but never equaled by teams such as Washington, Miami, and Texas, the streak contributed to the acclaim Wilkinson garnered by amassing an impressive three national championships (1950, 1955, and 1956), twelve consecutive conference titles, twenty-three straight wins on opposing fields, Top Ten rankings for eleven successive years, and a thirty-one game winning streak before the unforgettable “forty-seven straight.” Forty-seven Straight details how the record grew, season by season, as told by sixty-one of Wilkinson’s players during interviews with Harold Keith, the university’s sports publicist who witnessed all 178 football games during the Wilkinson era at OU. The players recall Wilkinson’s and his staff’s style, methods, and strategies while vividly recalling their most dramatic games. The scholastic integrity of Wilkinson’s program, which included high academic standards and graduation rates, produced a successful group of career-minded players.

An insider''s tour of the past half-century''s espionage technologies also recounts some of the CIA''s most secretive operations and how they have been performed using state-of-the-art spy instruments.

Take a look inside the covert world of espionage - its history, the hi-tech spy gadgets and aspects of spycraft from surveillance to assassination. DK''s Ultimate Spy is filled with stunning, specially commissioned photographs that show details of equipment including spycams, bugs, weapons and drone aircraft. From the earliest intrigues at royal courts through the covert operations of the CIA and KGB during the Cold War to the revelations from Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, delve into the secret world of espionage.

Enter the world of the spy and learn how to be a spy, what equipment and techniques they use and about some famous operations.

A slightly built junior high school boy tries to persuade the coach to give him a chance on the basketball team.

Dan Deweese, unable to get along with his stepfather, goes to live on the Nevada ranch of his grumpy old great-uncle, but when he arrives he is told he must stay in the bunkhouse with the other ranch-hands, and it is not until he is allowed to take on the care of an orphaned wild colt that Dan begins to feel at home.

The three Barnes children learn a great deal about birds and the neighborhood bully learns about friendship when they join forces to care for some orphaned bluejays.

John Clinton Bradley was born 8 June 1859 in Lebanon, Iowa. His parents were Israel S. Bradley and Mary E. Lymenstull. He married Ida May McLain, daughter of John Jacob McLain and Emily Lowe, in 1882. They had seven children and lived in Marion County, Kansas. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere.

A young Spaniard, Pedro, is captured by the Comanches and resists his captors'' attempts to make him one of them. But as he learns to hunt, track and shoot he learns to love these people.

Children are encouraged to do their spy activities with willing friends and family members and to respect others'' right to privacy. Adults should provide guidance and supervision whenever the activity requires--from inside of book.

Secret Codes and Ciphers.