Chase has never been good at staying out of trouble, but he'll need to focus to catch a bandit who's stealing from innocent students and is only growing stronger. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Chapter Books is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.

A bandit is on the loose at 6th-grader Chase Cooper's school. As each day passes, the bandit's reach grows further and further.

Continuing the havoc-meets-hilarious adventures of Chase Cooper, who is the leader of a secret society of ninjas at his school. As always, there's trouble brewing in the school halls, and you'll never guess who wants to team up with me... There's a thieving bandit on the loose, and as each day passes, his list of victims grows. Zoe says I should stay out of it...but staying out of trouble isn't my style. My name is Chase Cooper, and I'm a 6th grade ninja.

“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.”– Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA"The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine collection is the extraordinary expanse of James Buchanan's work. Everyone interested in economics and related fields can profit mightily from this book."– Mario Rizzo, Professor of Economics, New York University, USA This book explores the academic contribution of James Buchanan, who received the Nobel Prize for economics in 1986. Buchanan’s receipt of the Prize is noteworthy because he was a maverick within the economics profession. In contrast to the preponderance of economists, Buchanan made little use of mathematics and no use of econometrics, preferring to used logic and language to insert his ideas into the scholarly community. Moreover, his ideas extended the domain of economic inquiry along many paths that numerous economists subsequently pursued. Buchanan’s scholarship brought economics and political science together under the rubric of public choice. He was also was a prime figure in bringing economic theory into closer contact with moral and social philosophy.This volume includes essays distributed across the extensive domain of Buchanan’s scholarly contributions, reflecting the range of his scholarly interests. Chapters will examine Buchanan’s scholarly work on public finance, social insurance, public debt, public choice, economic methodology, constitutional political economy, law and economics, and ethics and social theory. The book also examines Buchanan in relation to other prominent economists, both from the distant past and the recent past.

In 1927, the Marines first undertake integrating their air and ground forces in pursuit of the bandit, Augusto Caesar Sandino. Christian Schilt rises from the rank of private first class as a gunner in a biplane searching for German subMarines, to a first lieutenant. He is the Marine Corps's top pilot, earning a Medal of Honor in this final Banana War, and the only one capable of catching the bandit. Retold with narrative elements and dialogue, the true story, Bandits Below, brings to life histo

Amid the gleaming skyscrapers and airships of turn-of-century Grisham City, a bizarre series of technology heists threatens the shining gaslamp metropolis’s future. When the innovative inventions of the city’s brightest inventors begin disappearing without explanation, private detectives and brother sleuths Luke and John Buchanan leap into action to crack the confounding case. Following a slender trail of clues, Luke and John race to uncover who or what is behind the robberies before the city’s most remarkable technologies disappear into the wrong hands. Aided by their clever cousin Mary’s research skills and intrepid police lieutenant Bailey’s investigative savvy, the brothers plunge into a high-stakes race against time. Every inventive mind in Grisham seems under threat as the shadowy perpetrators grow bolder. And every promising lead pulls Luke and John deeper into danger in the city’s darkest underworld. To disrupt a cunning criminal plot, save the city’s visionary inventors from ruin, and stop an ingenious new technology from being used for nefarious ends, Luke and John must survive attacks from the city’s most vicious gangs and outmaneuver stone-faced titans of industry. The answers behind the robberies may be far more significant than anyone imagined, and lives, as well as the shining city itself, hang in the balance.

They said in Texas that Tom Buchanan ate wildcat for breakfast and that he was slow to anger—like a rattler dozing in the desert sun. But now every saloon and dance hall had heard the news: Buchanan was cleaning his guns. The genial giant of a man had sworn to kill the outlaws who had shot his best friend in the back. Old timers shook their heads. It wasn’t going to be a fair fight, they said. The odds were only three to one.