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Kidnapped
Set amidst the real world events which occurred following the Jacobite rising of 1745, Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novel “Kidnapped” is the story of David Balfour, who travels to meet his uncle and collect his inheritance following the death of his father. Betrayed by his Uncle, David finds himself kidnapped by Captain Hoseason of the brig “Covenant”, who plans to sell him into slavery in the Carolina Colonies of America. However the ship is blown of course and driven back towards Scotland where in the fog it strikes a small vessel and brings aboard the Scottish soldier and Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart. With the help of Alan, David is able to escape his captors and soon finds himself in the middle of the struggle between the Scottish Highlanders and soldiers of the English government. Stranded in the Scottish wilderness David must fight for his life and return home to collect his rightful inheritance. Through the characters of Alan and David the conflict over Scottish independence from English rule is adventurously depicted.
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100 Things You Should Know About Pirates
100 Things you should know about Pirates takes you on a journey of discovery through a gripping period of history. Exactly 100 facts accompanied by detailed artwork reveal what pirate life on the seas was really like. Throughout there are puzzles, quizzes, and projects – dress up as a pirate, design your own pirate flag, and map the pirates’ journeys.
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Tikta’Liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo Legend
“A young hunter is trapped on an ice floe and marooned on a barren island. . . . The Eskimo survives freezing weather, an attack by a polar bear, and the long journey that brings him safely home. . . . The author’s distinctive drawings help make this a memorable book.”–The New York Times Book Review
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Hardy Boys Adventures – The Vanishing Game
Everyone in Bayport can’t wait for the biggest event of the season: the premiere of G-Force – the newest ride by the world-renowned Piperato Brothers. Their creation is going to change the fortunes of Funsport, Bayport’s small and recently run-down amusement park. Frank and Joe are friends with Daisy Rodriguez, the owner’s daughter, and are first in line for the ride’s launch. Purple lights click off, a huge whoosh emanates from the floor, loud music pulses…. G-Force is awesome and exhilarating from start to finish. But while everyone is screaming their heads off, a young girl disappears into thin air – right in the middle of the ride! The fun has stopped, and now Frank and Joe have to solve this terrifying vanishing act.
$2.75$5.99Hardy Boys Adventures – The Vanishing Game
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Owls in the Family
Every child needs to have a pet. No one could argue with that. But what happens when your pet is an owl, and your owl is terrorizing the neighborhood? In Farley Mowat’s exciting children’s story, a young boy’s pet menagerie—which includes crows, magpies, gophers and a dog—grows out of control with the addition of two cantankerous pet owls. The story of how Wol and Weeps turn the whole town upside down s warm, funny, and bursting with adventure and suspense.
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Treasure Island
by R.L. Stevenson
Oxford World’s Classics, small format (4″x6″) hardcover 256 pp$1.50$6.00Treasure Island
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Banner in the Sky
by James Ramsey Ullman
paperback 285 pp
used in Sonlight H 8th grade
Newbery Honor book$4.00$8.99Banner in the Sky
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Great Tales of Action and Adventure
edited by George Bennett
12 short stories by great authors like Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe, G. K. Chesterton, etc.
older paperback 256 pp
cover stained and worn but pages clean and tight.$1.00$5.00Great Tales of Action and Adventure
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All Sail Set
1936 Newbery Honor book by Armstrong Sperry
paperback 171 pp in excellent condition (colored sticker on spine)
former Sonlight book$6.00$14.95All Sail Set
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Great Books for Boys – More than 600 books for boys 2 – 14
BOOKS THAT WILL MAKE BOYS WANT TO READ! Parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians–we need a tool that guides us to the books that will inspire boys to read and keep them coming back for more. Now Kathleen Odean, a former member of the Caldecott and Newbery Award committees and author of the groundbreaking bestseller Great Books for Girls has compiled and annotated a unique collection of more than six hundred books–picture books, novels, mysteries, biographies, sports books, and more–that will fascinate and educate boys. Here are classic characters such as Frog and Toad, Bilbo Baggins, and Encyclopedia Brown; new favorites such as Bingo Brown, Martin the Warrior, and Harry the Dirty Dog; and real-life inspirations such as the Wright brothers, Jackie Robinson, and Jacques Cousteau. The boys who discover reading from the books in this invaluable volume will witness a wide range of role models–and embark upon an adventure that will fuel their dreams for the rest of their lives.
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The Mystery of the Black Hole Mine (DJ Dillon book 7)
DJ gets a bad case of “gold fever” when he and Alfred accidentally discover an abandoned gold mine. A claim jumper desperately tries to seize the mine which holds a silent, invisible danger that can take their lives. Adventure, mystery and excitement repeatedly thrust 13-year-old D.J. Dillon into the kinds of trouble that young readers love. This popular series of 10 novels continues to be favorites of beginning readers, families and teachers who follow the boy’s experiences with bears and other animals in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. These stories with an evangelistic tone are fun to read while subtly reinforcing traditional family values. The adventure-packed books follow the Ladd family around the world. These Christian -based novels are ideal for young boys, ages 8 to 12 and reluctant readers.
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Hardy Boys Adventures Volume 2
2 books –
The Vanishing Game
Into Thin Air$2.00$16.99Hardy Boys Adventures Volume 2
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Jungle Doctor Spots a Leopard
Fear has gripped the hearts of the villagers. A killer leopard is moving closer and closer – a leopard which has only four toes on one foot. Old ex-chief Madole is also missing a finger. Could it be that he is using witchcraft to turn himself into a leopard, seeking revenge on those who took away his power? The hunter believes in the power of God – but he may have to become the bait if he is to save the rest.
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Maroo of the Winter Caves
This enduring survival story set at the end of the last Ice Age has been in print for over 20 years. When Maroo and her family become trapped on the Great Plain in blizzard conditions and with little food, they have only one chance of survival: for Maroo and her younger brother, Otak, to reach the winter camp and get help. The fastest trail to the camp is over the White Mountain, where there are treacherous glaciers, steep climbs, and mountain spirits. With the rest of their family depending on them, Maroo and Otak set out alone. But when Otak goes missing, Maroo is forced to make the most difficult of all decisions: to stay and search for her brother or to continue on to the camp in order to save the rest of her family. This modern classic offers readers a gripping tale of survival as well as a vivid portrait of prehistoric people.
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The Voyage Of The Frog
This adventure novel about survival at sea by Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen is now available in an After Words paperback edition!
David thought he was alone, that the ocean around him was all there was of the world. The wind screamed, the waves towered, and his boat, the twenty-two foot fiberglass FROG, skidded and bucked and, each moment, filled deeper and grew heavier with sea water.David thought surely he was dead at fourteen. His uncle Owen, who had taught him about sailing safely, would be so angry. Owen had died only days ago, his last wish for David to take the FROG out on his own, and sail her beyond sight of the coast, and once there scatter Owen’s ashes.$1.00$5.99The Voyage Of The Frog
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Buffalo Knife
Nine-year-old Andy and his family brave natural and man-made dangers during a perilous thousand-mile raft trip down the Tennessee River.
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Catching Fire: The Hunger Games Book 2
Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol – a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she’s afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she’s not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol’s cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can’t prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Down the rabbit hole away little Alice goes. Follow her at your own peril, but beware of the world you are about to enter. One with a decapitation-crazed queen, an unintelligible duchess, a sleepy dormouse, a chronically late rabbit, a witty Cheshire cat, a blue hookah-smoking caterpillar, a Hatter and a March Hare hosting a mad tea party, and a caucus race so bewildering that the best way to explain it is just to do it.
Through the Looking Glass: Adventure, mayhem, and madness continue for young Alice after she climbs through the mirror hanging above her fireplace’s mantel. Into the reflective world she travels, and soon she discovers that just as everything is backward in a mirror’s reflection, so is everything, from backward sentences to backward logic, in the mirror world. Rank by rank, Alice must cross through an enormous chess board as she meets a fantastical motley crew of creatures, chess pieces, and humans alike. What shall happen when little Alice reaches the end of the chess board?$8.00$14.95 -
Treasure Island
A timeless classic story about Jim Hawkins on an adventure of dangerous pirates.
* The book corners are a bit worn
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Lost Children of the Far Islands
Twins Gus and Leo and their little sister, Ila, live a quiet life in Maine—until their mother falls ill, and it becomes clear her strength is fading because she is protecting them from a terrible evil.
* This book is a library discard and will have stickers and plastic book cover.
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Trailblazers, Poems of Exploration
Vast seas. Infinite outer space. Endless prairies. Cloud-skimming peaks. The wide, open world. Intrepid explorers cannot ignore the call to adventure, and glory, and knowledge, and freedom. The call to explore. From the Vikings to Lewis and Clark to Sally Ride, discover the spirit of exploration in sixty-two fascinating, vibrant, moving poems.
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Top Secret Adventures Guide to Australia
DETECTIVES WANTED!! Top Secret Adventures lets your child have puzzle-solving fun while exploring the globe one country at a time. Kids get a thrill playing detective and unraveling a whodunnit mystery by solving puzzles and searching for clues. The suspense builds as suspects, priceless objects and places are eliminated one by one until WHO, WHAT & WHERE answers (and super sleuth skills), are revealed.
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Gooseberry Park
In this animal adventure from Newbery Medal-winning author Cynthia Rylant, Stumpy Squirrel has just settled into a new nest in a magnificent pin oak in Gooseberry Park. It’s the perfect spot for her babies to be born! When they arrive healthy and strong, Stumpy’s three good friends–a Labrador retriever, a wise hermit crab, and a bat who eats Chinese food–are thrilled. But after a terrible ice storm destroys the pin oak, Stumpy disappears. It takes a special combination of courage, humor, and tenacity for Stumpy’s friends to rescue her babies and bring her home again.
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Choice Adventures: The Underground Railroad Book 3
Three friends find a map in an old church from the Civil War era. Choose which adventure these kids take.
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Into the Amazon: One Lost World, Thirty Men, Seven Mysteries
A biblical response to radical environmentalism and a vision for manly stewardship. Discover why the Amazon is one of the most controversial spots on earth, and learn the truth in the battle between radical environmentalism and biblical Christianity. 7 mysteries explored. 4 dvds with more than 300 minutes of footage, and a bonus disc. Also Includes a study guide with answers in the back.
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Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins Vol. 1-Audio CDs
Includes All 4 Thrilling Albums of the 1st Adventure of Jonathan Park!
Includes the following albums – The Secret of the Hidden Cave, African Safari, Art Heist Adventure, Mystery at Dead Man’s Curve
While running from a storm, Jonathan and his father collide with the Brenan family as they seek shelter in a hidden cave. After discovering a massive dinosaur graveyard, these two families combine forces to build a creation science museum to spread the message of the Creator!
Running time, over 5 hours, 12 episodes on 4 CDs. Free study guide available to download.
***Cd’s new, box has some wear$20.00$39.99Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins Vol. 1-Audio CDs
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