Action & Adventure
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea is a stirring sea song by Allan Cunningham that captures the essence of maritime adventure and the beauty of t…
Davy and the Goblin
Eight-year-old Davy reads Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and begins to get very sleepy. Suddenly a goblin appears in…
Treasure Island
Arrgh and Shiver Me Timbers! Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver! This is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale as made into a play for The Pu…
Jim Davis
The tale of a 12-year-old boy who falls in with smugglers. Jim, an orphan, is sent to live with relatives along the Devon coast. There he ac…
The House on the Cliff
The house had been vacant and was supposed to be haunted. Mr. Hardy started to investigate - and disappeared! (From an old ad)This the secon…
Rezanov
This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806,…
The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point
This is the 10th book in the "Outdoor Girls" series.The Hostess House at Camp Liberty having burnt down, the chums find themselves…
Ben, the Luggage Boy
A young boy named Ben runs away to make a life of his own in the big city. He learns very quickly that this will be a lot harder than his i…
Guilt of the Brass Thieves
Brass is being rationed for the war effort when someone begins stealing it from a factory. Through a series of her typical adventures Penny …
The Boat Club
The Bunkers are a group of rebellious boys who make life miserable for many on the shores of an upstate New York Lake. Captain Sedley's son,…
Hallowe'en at Merryvale
"For many days the boys had been looking forward to the party to be held at Toad Brown's house, but the evening finally arrived and a n…
Zarah the Cruel
As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, an…
The Outdoor Girls Around the Campfire
This is book #13 in the "Outdoor Girls" series.The girls decide to camp out at a shack along the shores of Rainbow Lake, but when …
The Isle of Dead Ships
There is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or, setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. Lying at our ve…
Gulliver's Travels
Join Gulliver in this classic story as he voyages all over the place. - Summary by Victoria Bell
The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows
Betty and Esther are having another camping adventure in the New Hampshire hills, but this time it is the dead of winter. They are stuck wi…
Outlaw Jack
1850 - A year before, the Californian "gold-fever" broke out, a party of emigrants, numbering nearly one hundred under the command…
Bert Wilson at the Wheel
First volume of an adventure series for young adults - Summary by kathrinee
The Haunted Hangar
Second entry in series of teen aviation stories, filled with lots of scientific jargon, a jewel heist, and adventure. Van Powell is a pseudo…
Freaks on the Fells
In this first story in Freaks on the Fells, Mr Sudberry, a successful London merchant takes his family on a Scottish highlands vacation. Ov…