Jay Williams

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine

A princess uses common sense to get rid of a dragon, save herself from imprisonment, and find a handsome prince.

The Practical Princess

Danny Dunn, Time Traveler, Number Eight

Bates LOWRY

Leonardo da Vinci. By the editors of 'Horizon' magazine. Author Jay Williams, in consultation with Bates Lowry

Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint No 7

#15 in the Danny Dunn Series. "Castaways! "I challenge you to a duel of deserts islands!" Dr. Grimes cries, when Professor Bullfinch accuses him of not being practical. He plans to go ashore on an uninhabited desert island, and Professor on another. After a month they will see who has survived the best!  Danny and Joe soon get permission to join them and the four take off in the scientists' private plane. But they crash-land in the ocean and are REALLY marooned on an island -- off the coast of Peru!  Danny has so much fun that he wants to stay, and "breaks" their short-wave radio so they can't signal for help. Then he finds the long arrow embedded in the tree -- a terrifying clue that someone else is on the island . . .

Danny Dunn on a Desert Island

Raymond Abrashkin

Danny Dunn decides to do some volunteer weather-observing. His friend Professor Bullfinch has an ionic transmitter that makes little clouds and miniature rainstorms. Danny soon is in business making weather conditions on order.

Danny Dunn and the Weather Machine

Danny and the Professor are off to Mexico to test a new plastic diving ship, record fish sounds, and discover scientific phenomena of the deep.

Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor

Danny and his friend Joe Pearson discover the entrance to a cave in the woods near their home. Professor Bulfinch has just invented a portable x-ray machine, and the Professor, along with his geologist friend Dr. Tresselt, sees an opportunity to use the device inside the cave. The two adults, along with Danny, Joe, and Irene, enter the cave on an expedition. They make an astonishing discovery, but they encounter a significant problem which prevents them from leaving the cave... Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave is the sixth novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.

Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave

Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray

Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray # 14

Danny Dunn, Time Traveler

Danny Dunn, time traveler

Danny Dunn and the Automatic House

Professor Bullfinch has created a radio telescope ("dish") for the government which will try to determine if extraterrestrials are trying to contact Earth. When Danny sneaks into the observatory, he hears non-random sounds coming from space. He then must figure out how to translate the sounds. The observatory described in the book is similar to the real life SETI project!

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