Book 10

Moby Dog

by Alexander Steele, Rick Duffield, and Herman Melville

Published 1 February 1998
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, across the seven seas.

Book 16

The Last of the Breed

by Alexander Steele

Published 1 January 1999
When he and his friends try to stop Oakdale's real estate developer from destroying part of the local park, Wishbone is reminded of the conflict between nature and civilization as he imagines himself as Hawkeye, the scout from James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans."