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Adventure Genre
Genre description for the 'Adventure' Genre. Full text description would go here to introduce the genre before showing a complete list of all the books in that genre.
Books in the Adventure genre:
Smoky-House (1940)
An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Smoky House (1940)
An exciting story about dogs and donkeys and smugglers.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
T-Model Tommy: Study Edition (1940)
This special school edition of the adventures of Tommy Ballard and his trucking company has study questions and a glossary.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
To the Indies (1940)
A historical novel of Columbus’ third voyage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Doris Hauman
George Hauman
Adventures of Dudley and Gilderoy (1941)
A nonsense story in which a parrot and a cat travel to London and back home again.
Author(s):
Algernon Blackwood
Marion B. Cothren
Illustrator(s):
Rojan
Botany Bay (1941)
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Calico the Wonder Horse: or, The Saga of Stewy Slinker (1941)
A Christmas story about a cow horse and a bad man.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Captain from Connecticut (1941)
Captain Josiah Peabody takes his frigate, Delaware, to sea in the teeth of a British blockade during the War of 1812 and proceeds to devastate British shipping in the Caribbean.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Captain from Connecticut (1941)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Jan Doubrava
Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned (1941)
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
None
Down Ryton Water (1941)
An account of the Pilgrims’ voyage to America, from the point of view of a young boy.
Author(s):
E. R. Gaggin
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
Left Till Called For (1941)
When the Germans invade their island in the English Channel, Mick and Caroline Templeton get left behind in the confusion.
Author(s):
Mary Treadgold
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
Missee Lee (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Mountain Mystery (1941)
When Lum Morgan tries to steal back Broken Key farm, the girls of Glen Hazard must go into action again.
Author(s):
Maristan Chapman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941)
Explore the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway with Paddle.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
The Scalawagons of Oz (1941)
Author(s):
John R. Neill
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
We Couldn’t Leave Dinah (1941)
When the Germans invade their island in the English Channel, Mick and Caroline Templeton get left behind in the confusion.
Author(s):
Mary Treadgold
Illustrator(s):
Stuart Tresilian
The Young Patriots (1941)
Patty escapes capture by pirates during the Revolutionary War and ends up on Block Island.
Author(s):
Marjorie A. Hayes
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Larry and the Undersea Raider (1942)
Set in Hawaii, a naval officer’s son discovers an enemy sub.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
P. K. Jackson
Missee Lee (1942)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
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