The Maltese dog

By Anne Capeci

When other players on the basketball team suspect Joe of playing the practical jokes which are destroying their morale, Wishbone helps his pal find the real culprit.

The Pawlioned Paper

By Olga Litowinsky, Arvis Stewart, Rick Duffield

Be a Wolf!

By Brad Strickland

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 monst...

The prince and the pooch

By Caroline Leavitt

When Joe gets a chance to prove himself as coach and discovers that it is not as easy as it seems, Wishbone is reminded of the tale in which a poor boy trades places with the crown prince of Englan...

Robinhound Crusoe

By Caroline Leavitt

As he and Joe try to get to the eight-grade basketball game in time, Wishbone the dog imagines himself as Robinson Crusoe, the sole survivor of a shipwreck who lived on a deserted island for nearly...

Hunchdog of Notre Dame

By Michael Jan Friedman

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...

Digging up the past

By Vivian Sathre

Because Wishbone keeps getting interrupted while trying to take a nap, he begins thinking about Rip Van Winkle and finds himself in Rip's shoes, finally waking to a changed world.

The mutt in the iron muzzle

By 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...

Muttketeer!

By 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 prestigio...

Moby Dog

By Alexander Steele

While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, acro...