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, 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 Red Badge Of Courage
Set in the Civil War, the story of Henry Fleming, a raw Union army recruit eager to confirm his patriotism and prove his manhood.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 169
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
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