Windcatcher
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: buried treasure, sailing, shipwrecks, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery and detective stories, connecticut, long island sound (n.y. and conn.), audiobooks, sailing fiction, buried treasure fiction, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories, connecticut fiction
The Game Of Sunken Places
When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: games, vermont, mystery and detective stories, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery fiction [X]
Free Fall
High school senior Aaron Barclay, working at the Thunderbirds Skydiving School in exchange for free fall lessons, stumbles upon evidence that suggests the owners were involved in a celebrated jewelry heist.
398.2
year: 2005
copies: 82
call number/section: 398.2
lexile:
subjects: dreams, stories without words, mystery and detective stories, skydiving, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery fiction [X], adventure fiction
Tentacles
After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on, what soon becomes, an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 65
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: giant squids, squids, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery fiction [X], adventure fiction, adventure stories
Soccer Sabotage
Devin, Nadia, and Marcus are on their way to visit their environmentalist parents, who are working to stop a logging company from clear-cutting a remote valley, when their plane goes down, leaving the teens to fend for themselves in the wilderness.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: graphic novels, soccer, cartoons and comics, teenagers, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, survival, adventure and adventurers [X], sabotage, cooperation, sports, mystery and detective stories, mystery graphic novels, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories, sports stories, comic books, strips, etc, athletics, soccer stories, mystery comic books, strips, etc, sports stories
Now You See Them, Now You Don't
Aiden and Meg Falconer travel across the country in pursuit of Frank Lindenauer, who may hold the key to freeing their parents; however, the FBI is also on his trail.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 86
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: brothers and sisters, mystery and detective stories, adventure and adventurers [X], siblings, mystery fiction [X]
Blood Fever
Thirteen-year-old James Bond, an Eton student and member of the Danger Society, travels to his cousin's home on the Italian island of Sardinia where he becomes involved in trying to unravel the mystery behind an ancient Roman society and an art heist that have left a young girl's life hanging in the balance.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: bond, james (fictitious character), secret societies, teenage boys, adventure and adventurers [X], bond, james (fictional character), italy, spy stories, criminals, private schools, mystery fiction [X], spies
The Merchant Of Death
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, having learned he is a Traveler--someone who can ride "flumes" through time and space, is soon off to the alternative dimension of Denduron where he teams up with Loor, a girl his age from the warrior-territory of Zadaa, in an attempt to save the gentle Milago people from slavery.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 65
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: space and time, life on other planets, time travel, mystery and detective stories, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery fiction [X], adventure fiction, adventure stories, detective and mystery stories, cartoons and comics, fantasy, fantasy fiction
The Lost City Of Faar
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, apprentice to his Uncle Press, a Traveler responsible for solving interdimensional conflict, tries to locate the legendary lost land of Faar which may hold the key to the survival of the water-covered territory of Cloral, which stands on the brink of war.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: space and time, life on other planets, time travel, mystery and detective stories, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery fiction [X], adventure fiction, science fiction
The Reality Bug
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon enters a virtual world to defeat the evil Saint Dane and finds himself tempted to leave the real world behind.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: virtual reality, space and time, life on other planets, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery and detective stories, adventure fiction, mystery fiction [X], science fiction, adventure stories, detective and mystery stories, adventure fiction, mystery fiction, science fiction
Pendragon, Before The War
Describes the lives of Bobby Pendragon's fellow Travelers, including Vo Spader, Gunny Van Dyke, and Kasha, before they joined him in his quest traveling through time and space helping others from alternative dimensions.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: pendragon, bobby (fictitious character), space and time, life on other planets, time travel, mystery and detective stories, adventure and adventurers [X], pendragon, bobby (fictional character), mystery fiction [X], adventure fiction, detective and mystery stories, adventure stories, mystery fiction, adventure fiction
Ring Of Fire
Four seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in a deep and ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that exposes them to great danger.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: good and evil, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery fiction [X], rome (italy), italy, audiobooks
Smells Like Dog
When farm boy Homer Pudding's explorer-uncle dies and leaves him a droopy dog with a mysterious coin hidden on its collar, it leads him to The City, where they meet Madame La Directeur, the conniving head of the Natural History Museum, who is trying to steal the coin and take Homer's place in a secret society of adventurers.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: dogs, secret societies, mystery fiction [X], adventure fiction, adventure and adventurers [X], siblings
Island Of Thieves
Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: drake, john, drake, francis, treasure troves, uncles, islands, buried treasure, peru, mystery and detective stories, adventure and adventurers [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction [X], adventure stories, adventure fiction, mystery fiction, adventure fiction
You Are A Millionaire
The reader's decisions control the course of what happens when a boy finds a satchel filled with a million dollars.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: plot-your-own stories, large type books, money, adventure and adventurers [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X]