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Adventure Genre

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Books in the Adventure genre:

Keep ’Em Rolling (2006)

Dave Marsh and his family make the long trek to Oregon behind a team of oxen.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Al Savitt

The King of Attolia (2006)

Married to the Queen of Attolia, Eugenides must consolidate their power before the Medes return.

Author(s): Megan Whalen Turner
Illustrator(s): Vince Natale

King of the Hills (2006)

Breck Townsend went to New Hampshire to photograph the biggest buck and found himself tangling with a gang of poachers.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Lee Townsend

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion (2006)

This collection includes new stories that fit into the timeline of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Author(s): Don Rosa
Illustrator(s): Don Rosa

Lionel and the Book of Beasts (2006)

Lionel is taken from his nursery and made king. When he opens a book in his ever-so-great grandfather’s library, he accidentally releases a fierce dragon. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

Longshanks (2006)

Thad Hopkins is going downriver to meet his father in New Orleans when he is unceremoniously thrown in the river by a thief. He is rescued by a flatboat man -- Abe Lincoln.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

Moomin Volume 1 (2006)

After the success of Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, the London Evening News commissioned Tove Jansson to write a comic strip based on the characters.... View More

Author(s): Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s): Tove Jansson

The Muddy Road to Glory (2006)

Ben Everett joins up with the Twentieth Maine Regiment and fights from Stoneman’s Switch to Appomattox Court House.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): George Hughes

River of the Wolves (2006)

Dave Foster is captured during the French and Indian Wars and taken captive to Canada. After spending a winter learning the Indian ways, he escapes and makes his way home to Maine.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

The Voyage of the Javelin (2006)

In 1854 Bob Wingate signs on as ship’s boy on the extreme clipper Javelin for a voyage to San Francisco ’round the Horn, then on to China and the annual tea race to London Docks.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): John O’Hara Cosgrave, II

Who Rides in the Dark? (2006)

Daniel Drew is heading west to seek his fortune when he gets caught up in the search for a gang of highway men.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): James MacDonald

Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me (2007)

A former slave tells his granddaughter how he took the Underground Railway to freedom.

Author(s): Ann Grifalconi
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

The Box of Delights (2007)

Kay Harker is on his way home for the Christmas holidays when he falls a sleep on the train and has a marvelous adventure. This edition has been corrected from the original manuscript.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Judith Masefield

E. C. Segar’s Popeye Volume 2 (2007)

This volume reprints the Thimble Theater dailies and color Sunday strips from 1930 to 1932. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time in the daily strip on January 17, 1929.

Author(s): E. C. Segar
Illustrator(s): E. C. Segar

The Horse and His Boy (2007)

Shasta, a young slave in Calormen steals (or is stolen by) Bree a Narnian horse and sets out for Narnia and the north. Along the way he joins up with Aravis and her Narnian mount Hwin. Together they make for Archenland. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes
David Wiesner

The Last Battle (2007)

Tirian, the last king of Narnia summons Jill and Eustace to his aid when his kingdom is overrun by the Calormenes. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes
David Wiesner

The Midnight Folk (2007)

Kay Harker must battle his wicked governess and her coven to find the long lost treasure of Santa Barbara Cathedral, but has the aid of the Midnight Folk. The plates in this edition are in black and white, not color. The text has been corrected from ... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Rowland Hilder

Moomin Volume 2 (2007)

After the success of Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, the London Evening News commissioned Tove Jansson to write a comic strip based on the characters.... View More

Author(s): Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s): Tove Jansson

The Birthday Book (2008)

A treasury of stories and poems by many different authors and illustrators.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley
Various

The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume One Daily Comics 1924-1927 (2008)

This is the first volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips from 1924-1927 as well as a few atypical Sunday strips that advance the plot.

Author(s): Harold Gray
Illustrator(s): Harold Gray

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