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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:
Rifleman Dodd and the Gun (1942)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Warren Chappell
Shadow in the Pines (1942)
Ted Winslow helps the U.S. Army round up a gang of fifth columnists targeting Fort Dix.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Shadow in the Pines (1942)
Ted Winslow helps the U.S. Army round up a gang of fifth columnists targeting Fort Dix.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Snow Treasure (1942)
The story of how Norwegian school children smuggled their country’s gold to America under the noses of the Nazis.
Author(s):
Marie McSwigan
Illustrator(s):
Mary Reardon
Tree in the Trail (1942)
The story of a cottonwood tree leads to the history of the Santa Fe Trail.
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Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
The White Horse (1942)
Voyaging on the Fair American to Genoa, Sally, Andrew and Captain Patterson are captured by Moroccan pirates.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Wreck of the Wild Wave (1942)
Author(s):
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Frederick T. Chapman
Adam of the Road (1943)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Beggar’s Penny (1943)
A story about the siege of Leyden in the sixteenth century.
Author(s):
Catherine Cate Coblentz
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Freddy and the Bean Home News (1943)
Freddy starts the animals’ own newspaper The Bean Home News and gets involved in the notorious affair of the cast iron deer.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old and Young (1943)
Author(s):
Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Keep ’Em Crawling: Earthworms at War (1943)
Alexander Botts, Earthworm tractor salesman, gives the war effort his all.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
E. Franklin Wittmack
The Magic Bed-Knob (1943)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Waldo Peirce
The Sea Snake (1943)
Barney Cannon stumbles on a German spy and discovers a hidden U-boat base in the Bahamas.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Ship (1943)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
A. E. Barlow
The Ship (1943)
Based on the second Battle of Sirte in 1942 between the Italian fleet and a British convoy relieving Malta.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Tom Lea
The Storks Fly Home (1943)
The storks fly south as the Germans conquer Holland in the spring of 1940.
Author(s):
Jane Tompkins
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The White Company (1943)
A troop of English mercenaries during the hundred year’s war follow Sir Nigel to Spain.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Boat Children of Canton (1944)
Author(s):
Marion B. Ward
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Buffalo Coat (1944)
Author(s):
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s):
Unknown