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Books in the Adventure genre:

Saturdays

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Author(s): None
Illustrator(s): None

Sign of the Seven Seas

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A second story about Chris Mason, a boy of today, whose trip to magical Mr. Wicker's Shop in Washington, D.C. sent him back two hundred years in time. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s): None

Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1841)

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This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive. Read online at Internet Archive: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.... View More

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): Allen Robert Branston

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The Story of a Bad Boy (1870)

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A story of the author’s youth in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The highlights are the snowball battle on Slater’s hill and the celebration of the 4th of July. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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A Great Emergency (1877)

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This is a collection of short stories.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s): E. B. Barry

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Jackanapes (1883)

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A young British orphan grows up to be a Captain in a cavalry regiment and gives his life for his friend on the field of battle. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Lob Lie-by-the-Fire (1885)

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John Broom is found under a bush as a baby and adopted by two maiden ladies. After running away to sea he at last returns home. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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The Admiral’s Caravan (1892)

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A young girl named Dorothy takes a journey with three wooden statues who come alive on Christmas Eve. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s): Reginald Birch

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1894)

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Rudolf Rassendyll, proper English gentleman, bears an uncanny resemblance to his distant cousin King Rudolf V of Ruritania, and thereby hangs a tale. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Anthony Hope
Illustrator(s): None

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Mr. Midshipman Easy (1895)

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A young man, who seems very like a fool, is sent to sea and makes good.

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum

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“Captains Courageous” A Story of the Grand Banks (1897)

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Harvey Cheyne falls overboard from his liner on the Grand Banks and is picked up by a cod fisherman who proceeds to make a man of him. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): I. W. Taber

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

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Whirled away on a cyclone, Dorothy is set down in the Land of Oz and must find her way home with the help of the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and a pair of ruby slippers. Read for free online at the Library of Congress. For a faster download go to: Hathit... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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Kim (1901)

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Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): John Lockwood Kipling

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Four In Camp (1905)

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The story of four boys at summer camp in the White Mountains.

Author(s): Ralph Henry Barbour
Illustrator(s): Charles M. Relyea

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Prester John (1910)

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A young Scot goes out to South Africa where he becomes caught up in a native rebellion. This is a later American edition.

Author(s): John Buchan
Illustrator(s): Henry C. Pitz

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Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle (1910)

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Tom Swift wishes for a motorcycle and his wish is granted unexpectedly.

Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Victor Appleton
Illustrator(s): H. Rudolph Mencl

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Peter and Wendy (1911)

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This is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work. It tells the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian ... View More

Author(s): J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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The Amateur Gentleman (1913)

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Barnabas Barty comes into the possession of a vast fortune and determines to use it to become a gentleman. He must first knock his father down, although as respectfully as may be. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Jeffery Farnol
Illustrator(s): Herman Pfeifer

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Beltane the Smith (1915)

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Growing up isolated among hermits, young Beltane has a lot to learn about the world. His education begins when a stranger comes to the woods offering sword and horse lessons to the young man. Still, will he be ready when Lady Helen of Mortain rides t... View More

Author(s): Jeffery Farnol
Illustrator(s): Arthur E. Becher

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Tom Slade Boy Scout (1915)

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Tom is a sixteen-year-old street tough, left to fend for himself by his worthless father, Bill Slade, after wealthy landowner John Temple evicts them. Tom scorns the Boy Scout movement, as does Temple and his effeminate son Wilfred. Because of his in... View More

Author(s): Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Illustrator(s): Photographs

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