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The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Gold, mystery, and the rugged slopes of the Andes drive two English brothers into the wild heart of Peru. They risk everything against hostile tribes, treacherous bandits, and natural perils to uncover the lost wealth of the ancient Incas.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer
Ralph Delahaye Paine
A high-spirited 1718 swashbuckler pits a brave South Carolina youth and a reluctant boy pirate against Edward Teach’s infamous crew in a fight for survival, honor, and sunken gold.
The Heart of Pinocchio: New Adventures of the Celebrated Little Puppet
Collodi Nipote
When the world collapses into war, a wooden puppet decides his place is on the front line with his nation’s soldiers.
The Moon Maid
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A multigenerational struggle between freedom and tyranny begins in space and spans centuries across a subterranean lunar world and a desolate, conqueror-ravaged Earth.
The Giant Raft
Jules Verne
A family floats down the Amazon on a colossal wooden raft, completely unaware that an extortionist on board carries the secret that could save—or condemn—their patriarch.
The House of Arden: A Story for Children
E. (Edith) Nesbit
An ancient English estate, two penniless siblings, and a magic mole with a gift for turning back time drive this inventive time-travel adventure toward a choice between worldly rank and family love.
The Lone Ranche
Mayne Reid
Surrounded by desert sand and hunted across a hostile frontier, a fallen trader and a deposed officer band together to survive the high plains of New Mexico.
The Wood Beyond the World
William Morris
When an unhappily married young merchant flees his coastal city, he strays beyond the known earth into a perilous fairy-realm of sorcery, enthrallment, and true love.
Tom Swift and His Undersea Search
Victor Appleton
Deep beneath the Atlantic, a young inventor risks everything to solve two mysteries at once: locating a long-lost fortune and unmasking a ruthless fraud.
Travels in the Interior of Africa
Mungo Park
A Scottish explorer trudges across West Africa, trading cowries for passage, surviving tropical fevers, and recording the interior with observant, quiet resolve.
Children of the Frost
Jack London
A relentless Northland isolates Native dwellers and white interlopers, pitting human endurance against an unyielding wilderness and inevitable change.
The Black Buccaneer
Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
A young boy is torn from his lonely Maine island by notorious buccaneers, launching a perilous journey through capes, sea battles, and hidden gold.
The marines have landed
Giles Bishop
A young boy searches for his place in the military, trading the comforts of home for the harsh discipline and global battlefields of an elite fighting force.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive
Victor Appleton
A young inventor races against corporate saboteurs to build a two-mile-a-minute electric engine and save a struggling Western railroad.
The Ghost Kings
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
White and beautiful, a missionary's daughter is acclaimed by the Zulu people as the living embodiment of their heavenly goddess—only to be traded to a secretive race of tree-worshiping dwarfs.