Adventure

Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants; or, Handling Their First Real Commands

H. Irving Hancock

The work is a juvenile military adventure that follows two young corporals, Hal Overton and Noll Terry, as…

Hidden Gold

Wilder Anthony

Hidden Gold is a Western tale that thrusts the reader into a clash of cattle and sheep on the open range.

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method

Wm. Audley Maxwell

Crossing the Plains, Days of ’57 is a first‑person narrative of an 1857 overland emigrant party that travels…

Baseball Joe Around the World; or, Pitching on a Grand Tour

Lester Chadwick

The work is a juvenile adventure novel that follows the celebrated pitcher Joe as he naviges the swirling…

Randy of the River; Or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Randy of the River is a juvenile adventure that follows a bright‑minded fourteen‑year‑old carpenter’s son as…

Ben's Nugget; Or, A Boy's Search For Fortune

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Ben Stanton’s tale begins amid the rugged foothills of a California gold‑rush mining camp, where three…

Stingaree

E. W. Hornung

Stingaree is a work of early‑twentieth‑century English fiction that plunges the reader into the genteel yet…

The Adventurous Seven: Their Hazardous Undertaking

Bessie Marchant

The Adventurous Seven: Their Hazardous Undertaking is a juvenile adventure set in turn‑of‑the‑century…

Walter and the Wireless

Sara Ware Bassett

Walter King, a fifteen‑year‑old “His Highness” of a tiny New England fishing village, opens the story with a…

The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice; Or, Solving a Wireless Mystery

Allen Chapman

The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice is a juvenile adventure series that blends the excitement of early…

Blazed trail stories, and Stories of the wild life

Stewart Edward White

The book is a vivid slice of frontier life, set in a bustling lumber town on a Fourth of July in the 1880s.

The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay; or, The Secret of the Red Oar

Margaret Penrose

The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay is a light‑hearted juvenile mystery that opens with a bustling scene of four…

Frank Merriwell's Cruise

Burt L. Standish

Frank Merriwell’s Cruise is a juvenile adventure that begins in the bustling streets of Boston, where a…

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks; or, Two Recruits in the United States Army

H. Irving Hancock

Uncle Sam’s Boys in the Ranks is a juvenile adventure set in a small New Jersey town, where a group of…

Rollo in Scotland

Jacob Abbott

The work is a juvenile travel narrative that blends a lively description of a steamer journey with a gentle…

Dorothy on a Ranch

Evelyn Raymond

Dorothy on a Ranch is a juvenile adventure set in the American West, written by Evelyn Raymond in 1909.

The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands

Roger T. Finlay

The Wonder Island Boys is a juvenile adventure series that follows two boys and their adult companion as they…

Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace

Alice B. Emerson

The story opens with a lively scene at the Red Mill, where Ruth Fielding, a plucky teenage heroine, insists…

Ruth Fielding Down East; Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point

Alice B. Emerson

The novel is a youthful mystery set against a storm‑swept Maine riverside, where the heroine Ruth Fielding, a…

A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony

Alice Turner Curtis

A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony is a juvenile historical narrative set against the backdrop of the…

The Wallypug in London

G. E. Farrow

The work is a whimsical children’s fantasy that begins with an unexpected, solemn hymn to Queen Victoria…

Dorothy's Travels

Evelyn Raymond

Dorothy’s Travels is a juvenile adventure that opens aboard the steamer Mary Powell, where a handful of…

Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks

Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks is a juvenile adventure story that blends the lively world of Girl Scout…

The Woman from Outside [On Swan River]

Hulbert Footner

The novel is a detective‑mystery set against the rugged backdrop of Canada’s north‑western frontier, where…