The Whipping Boy
Young Jemmy has been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to Prince Brat.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 388
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: robbers and outlaws, adventure and adventurers, thieves, adventure fiction [X], princes, large type books, adventure stories, newbery medal books, 1987, chinese language, adventure, quest, kings, queens, rulers, etc, kings and rulers
The Littles And The Lost Children
Major Nick Little and his band of soldiers find two babies abandoned in Trash City and must find how they got there.
FIC
year: 1991
copies: 69
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
Meanwhile--
Raymond, in an effort to escape doing chores for his mother, decides to try using the comic book device of writing "meanwhile" to transport himself to a different location, and finds himself in all sorts of dangerous adventures.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
subjects: mother and child, adventure and adventurers, comic books, strips, etc, helpfulness, mother-child relationship, adventure stories, cartoons and comics, adventure fiction [X], imagination
Everest. Book Two
The climbing contest to see who will be the youngest person to climb Mount Everest turns into a life-or-death rescue mission.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 94
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: mountaineering, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction [X], everest, mount (china and nepal)
Everest. Book One
Four climbers, winners of an American Junior Alpine Association contest, vie to become the youngest person ever to reach the peak of Mount Everest.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 106
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: mountaineering, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction [X], everest, mount (china and nepal)
Afternoon On The Amazon
Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 154
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 290
subjects: rain forests, rain forest animals, adventure and adventurers, tree houses, amazon river valley, chinese language materials, bilingual books, adventure fiction [X], adventure fiction
Dinosaurs Before Dark
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic tree house, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 221
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 240
subjects: jack (fictitious character : osborne), annie (fictitious character : osborne), dinosaurs, time travel, magic, tree houses, adventure, jack (fictional character : osborne), annie (fictional character : osborne), time-travel fiction, children's audiobooks, jack, annie, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction [X], action and adventure fiction
The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 378
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: toys, rabbits, love, listening, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction [X], lost toys, action and adventure fiction, love stories, adventure stories, electronic books, adventure fiction, electronic books, romance fiction, pride and vanity, large type books, large print books
Bella At Midnight
Bella's peasant life is changed when her real father, a knight who abandoned her when she was a baby, comes and reclaims her, moving her to his home where she lives with a resentful stepmother and two horrible stepsisters and learns about a plot to kill her friend, Prince Julian.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: quests (expeditions), knights and knighthood, princes, kings, queens, rulers, etc, sex role, kings and rulers, adventure fiction [X]
Toys Go Out
Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, Lumphy, a stuffed buffalo, Sting Ray, a stuffed stingray, and Plastic, a toy who happens to be in the midst of an identity crisis.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
Stanley In Space
When the residents of a far-distant planet send a message to Earth asking for someone to meet with them, the President of the United States asks Stanley Lambchop, an all-American boy, to be his ambassador.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 106
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: space flight, extraterrestrial beings, heroes, imaginary voyages, space, adventure stories, adventure fiction [X], solar system, outer space, lambchop, stanley (fictitious character), heroes and heroines, voyages, imaginary
Peter And The Shadow Thieves
Realizing that Molly and the other Starcatchers are in danger when the sinister being Lord Ombra visits the island and seems to control people through their shadows, Peter and Tinker Bell travel to England to help save the stardust.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 136
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: shadows, characters and characteristics in literature, characters in literature, adventure and adventurers, humorous stories, shades and shadows, humorous fiction, fantasy fiction, adventure fiction [X], tinker bell (fictitious character)
The Adirondack Kids
Ten-year-old Justin Robert, vacationing at his family's camp in the Adirondacks, becomes the champion of a pair of common loons that have taken up residence on Fourth Lake.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: loons, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction [X], adirondack mountains (n.y.), fulton chain lakes (n.y.)
Rainstorm
In this wordless picture book, a boy finds a mysterious key which leads him on an adventure one rainy day.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Swindle
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the Smart Pick fruit picker.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 264
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: crime, baseball cards, swindlers and swindling, audiobooks, audiobooks, action and adventure fiction, children's audiobooks, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction [X], detective and mystery stories, adventure stories, mystery and detective stories