Adventure Stories

Read about these adventurers as they battle nature or manmade obstacles,
using their wits in a struggle to survive.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin
Alaska by Frank Lauria
Blackwater Swamp by Bill Wallace
The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
Bridle the Wind by Joan Aiken
Brian's Hunt by Gary Paulsen
Brian's Return by Gary Paulsen
Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
Call Me Francis Tucket by Gary Paulsen
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Climb or Die by Edward Myers
Courage at Indian Deep by Jane Thomas
Danger in Quicksand Swamp by Bill Wallace
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
Emily Upham's Revenge by Avi
Eyes of the Amaryllis by Natalie Babbitt
Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case by Zilpha Snyder
The Fear Place by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Ghost of Crammer's Island by Linda Cline
Guts by Gary Paulsen
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Holes by Louis Sachar
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs
Jericho's Journey by G. Clifton Wisler
Jonathan Down Under by Patricia Beatty
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Kidnapped by Gordon Korman
The Kidnapping of Suzie Q by Martin Waddell
Left Behind--The Kids (Series) by Tim F. LaHaye
Lost in the Mountains by Marjory E. Williams
Low Tide by William Mayne
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Monster of Mirror Mountain by Roger Vaughan Carr
Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
Nightmare Island by Ron Roy
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
The Riddle of the Dinosaur by John Noble Wilford
The River by Gary Paulsen
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Running out of Time by Margaret Haddix
Shadow Shark by Colin Thiele
Singer to the Sea God by Vivien Alcock
Smugglers by Iain Lawrence
Stone Fox by John Gardiner
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
Take a Hike by Cathy Dubowski
Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden
A Trap of Gold by Alison Smith 
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Winter Camp by Kirkpatrick Hill
Wreckers by Iain Lawrence


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