Kidnapped
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
FIC
year: 7119
copies: 46
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 480
subjects: kidnapping, scotland, adventure and adventurers [X], adventure fiction, kidnapping fiction, adventure and adventurers fiction, scotland fiction, historical fiction, adventure stories, kidnapping victims, disinheritance, teenage boys, jacobites, plot-your-own stories, adventures and adventurers, horror tales, horror fiction, college stories, colleges and universities, horror stories, coming of age, radical reader, inheritance and succession, teenagers, boys, action and adventure fiction, historical fiction
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Designed to acquaint readers with famous stories, this book, in graphic novel format, retells Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 263
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: mississippi river, missouri, finn, huckleberry (fictitious character), boys, clemens, samuel langhorne, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), voyages and travels, missouri fiction, missouri fiction, mississippi river fiction, humorous fiction, humorous stories, runaway children, male friendship, fugitive slaves, race relations, large type books, huckleberry finn (fictional character), friendship, slaves, cartoons and comics, mississippi river valley, slavery, adventure and adventurers [X], adventure fiction, united states, audiobooks, voyages and travel, large print books, finn, huckleberry, action and adventure fiction, humorous fiction, bildungsromans, adventure stories, humorous stories, bildungsromans, adventure fiction, finn, huckleberry (fictional character), adventure stories, historical fiction, picaresque literature, compact discs, tourism, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, electronic books, graphic novels, electronic books
Around The World In Eighty Days
In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 86
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: voyages around the world, adventure and adventurers [X], historical fiction, adventure fiction, adventure and adventures, adventure stories, voyages and travels, large type books, large print books, audiobooks, verne, jules, cartoons and comics, wagers, adventure fiction, action and adventure fiction, graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, adventure, travel, quest, tourism
Lord Jim
With gorgeous new packaging, a new introduction, and an updated bibliography, this reissue celebrates the classic novel that set the style for a whole new class of literature: novels of an outcast from civilization finding refuge in the tropics.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1120
subjects: seafaring life, merchant marine, british, atonement, indonesia, adventure and adventurers [X], adventure fiction, sea stories, malay archipelago, self-acceptance, cowardice, psychological fiction