Silver
Despite their different backgrounds, Sarabeth, a teenager living with her mother in a trailer and transferring to a new school, makes friends with Grant and her affluent friends, including troubled Patty who shares a painful secret about her uncle.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: pirates, mothers and daughters, adventure and adventurers, friendship, child sexual abuse, mother-daughter relationship, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X]
Absolute Pressure
Ian, spending the summer on Key West with his Uncle Gord, a dive shop owner, is drawn into a dangerous adventure when he sets out to learn why someone is trying to harm his uncle.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: scuba diving, synesthesia, uncles, key west (fla.), adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X], adventure fiction
The Friday Society
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: adventure fiction, criminals, mystery fiction, adventure stories [X], london (england), great britain
In Too Deep
Persuaded by her teacher to seek Cortez's long-lost treasure during a school trip to Mexico, Annie Fleet, master scuba diver and history buff, finds that her plans to get Josh to notice her are not the only thing in danger as rival treasure-hunters try to do away with her.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: adventure stories [X], treasure troves, scuba diving, dating (social customs), juvenile fiction, mexico, juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general, travel / mexico, family & relationships / love & romance
Stolen
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: kidnapping, interpersonal relations, adventure and adventurers, australia, adventure stories [X]
Dora's Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving Day, Dora thinks about all the people and things for which she is thankful.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: thanksgiving day, gratitude, dora the explorer (fictitious character), girls, explorers, families, dora the explorer (fictional character), adventure fiction, family life, adventure stories [X]
Dora's Backpack
Dora and Boots call upon their friend Backpack for help in returning books to the library.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: libraries, dora the explorer (fictitious character), girls, backpacks, adventure and adventurers, dora the explorer (fictional character), adventure fiction, adventure stories [X]
A Horse And A Hero
Rapunzel is in trouble, and it is up to Flynn Rider and Maximus the horse to save her.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: islands, princesses, hair, horses, adventure stories [X], film novelizations, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, movie novels, kings, queens, rulers, etc, kings and rulers, readers (elementary), adventure fiction, movie novels
Swiss Family Robinson
An adaptation of Johann Wyss's novel about an imaginative family that survives and prospers after being shipwrecked on a deserted island where they live over ten years before the chance of rescue arrives.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, families, islands, survival, family life, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X], robinsonades, family, castaways, robinsonades
The Red Pyramid
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: brothers and sisters, seth (egyptian deity), voyages and travels, family secrets, secret societies, egypt, mythology, egyptian, large type books, magic, secrets, egyptian mythology, siblings, adventure fiction, secrecy, large type books, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X], electronic books, electronic books
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Examines the life and career of twentieth-century author Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of the "Tarzan" series of books.
920
year: 2000
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: burroughs, edgar rice, novelists, american, adventure stories [X], tarzan (fictitious character), authors, american, american authors
The High King's Daughter
The further adventures of Roland, a journeyman wizard, and his two companions, the knight-errant Walter and the minstrel Lys, as they journey into Elfland to try and bring out the High King's daughter.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, knights and knighthood, magic, adventure stories [X], wizards
School Of Wizardry
Determined to become a wizard, twelve-year-old Randal is delighted to be accepted into the famed School of Wizardry, but his apprenticeship is marred when he realizes that one of the master wizards is using evil spells to destroy the school and gain supreme power.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: wizards, knights and knighthood, fantasy fiction, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, apprentices, adventure stories [X]
Secret Of The Tower
After breaking the oldest law in wizardry while trying to save the School of Wizardry from destruction, fifteen-year-old Randal is made a journeyman wizard but is not allowed to use his magic, no matter how great the need, until he gets permission from the wizard Balpesh living as a hermit in the far off eastern mountains.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: wizards, knights and knighthood, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, fantasy, adventure stories [X]
The Count Of Monte Cristo
An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's story in which Edmond Dantes, sent to prison on a false accusation in 1815, escapes many years later and finds a treasure which he uses to exact his revenge.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: prisoners, revenge, adventure and adventurers, france, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X]