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Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess Tiger Lily; second to the right and then straight on till morning. You know the story... and if you don't, please start listening immediately! (summary by Meredith Hughes)...

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Children, Adventure, Fantasy

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Joe Carstairs is a boy on a farm in Australia. His father is a keen naturalist who, some years before had set off for New Guinea in search of specimens, and never been heard of again. Joe is old enough to mount a search expedition, and takes with him a local doctor and an aboriginal worker on his farm. They find themselves joined by a stowaway, Jimmy, whose father is a squatter (farmer) nearby, together with his dog, Gyp. This team sets off, arrive in New Guinea, hire some more porters, and travel guided by some sixth sense straight to where Mr. Carstairs has been kept a prisoner, along with another Englishman, whose mind has gone, under the stress of his imprisonment. There are the usual close shaves and tense moments, but finally they achieve their end, and return home triumphantly: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21301/21301.txt...

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Adventure, Children

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An inside look into the wild world of silent movie cowboy William S. Hart... as narrated by his horse! This is a fascinating (if fictionalized) behind-the-scenes look into the wild, action-packed world of a Hollywood cowboy and stuntman. TOLD UNDER A WHITE OAK TREE is a charming children's book that not only gives us a fanciful account of Hart's career as Hollywood's premier western hero, but also tells a rousing adventure story of his exceptional (if somewhat smart-alecky) equine companion, who strives to become as renowned a screen legend as his master. Caution: This book contains a couple of racial epithets that may be offensive to some readers. Turns out horses aren't very progressive or PC. (Summary by ChuckW)...

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Adventure, Children, Westerns

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Die Titelheldin Alice wird während eines langweiligen Picknicks mit ihrer Schwester auf ein weißes Kaninchen aufmerksam, dem sie schließlich in dessen Bau folgt. Dabei landet sie in einer traumartigen Unterwelt, die vor Paradoxa und Absurditäten nur so strotzt. Beim Versuch, dem Kaninchen zu folgen, passieren dem Mädchen zahlreiche Missgeschicke......

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Children, Adventure, Fantasy, Humor

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The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary. Caleb accidentally discovers a terrible secret in his master's past. Though Caleb promises to be bound to silence, Falkland, irrationally attached (in Godwin's view) to ideas of social status and inborn virtue, cannot bear that his servant should possibly have power over him, and sets out to use various means--unfair trials, imprisonment, pursuit, to make sure that the information of which Caleb is the bearer will never be revealed. Godwin described the book as a series of adventures of flight and pursuit; the fugitive in perpetual apprehension of being overwhelmed with the worst calamities, so that Caleb Williams can be classified as an early thriller or mystery novel. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Adventure, Mystery, Fiction, Literature

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The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a talking pudding, and that immortal line “Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today.” Lewis Carroll was the nom de plume of Charles Dodgson (1832-1890) an Anglican clergyman, photographer, and mathematician....

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Children, Adventure, Fantasy

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Dies ist die Geschichte des 14-jährigen Niels Holgersen, der von einem Kobold, den er ärgert, selbst auf Koboldgröße geschrumpft wird. Mit der Hausgans Martin, die sich einem Schwarm Wildgänsen anschließt, fliegt er durch ganz Schweden bis zu den Brutgebieten der Gänse im nördlichen Lappland und wieder zurück. Unterwegs erlebt er viele Abenteuer, wird erwachsener und lernt im Umgang mit den Tieren, ein besserer Mensch zu sein. Dieses Buch ist ein Abenteuerroman und ein Entwicklungsroman, gleichermaßen ein Buch für Kinder und Erwachsene. Selma Lagerlöf erhielt wohl auch für den Niels Holgersen 1909 als erste Frau den Literaturnobelpreis. Dies ist der erste von zwei Teilen. (Zusammenfassung von Sonja)...

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Adventure, Children, Fairy tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Teen/Young adult, Travel

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RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote of which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are certain of his stories that go with especial directness to a boy’s heart and sympathies and make for him quite unforgettable literature. A few of these were made some years ago into a volume, “Stories for Boys,” and found a large and enthusiastic special public in addition to Davis’s general readers; and the present collection from stories more recently published is issued with the same motive. This book takes its title from “The Boy Scout,” the first of its tales; and it includes “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” “Blood Will Tell,” the immortal “Gallegher,” and “The Bar Sinister,” Davis’s famous dog story. It is a fresh volume added to what Augustus Thomas calls “safe stuff to give to a young fellow who likes to take off his hat and dilate his nostrils and feel the wind in his face.” (Summary by Publisher's Note in book)...

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Short stories, Adventure, Children, Teen/Young adult

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Yee-Haaw! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! In this book, the 3rd of the series, the boys have decided that they want to explore the north country. They also want to make their own arrangements for the adventure, with the approval of Professor Zepplin, of course! So they have arrived in Forsythe, Montana, to try their luck in the mountains. (Summary by Ann Boulais)...

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Adventure, Children, Westerns

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Join Angelo Daily and his chums during a fun filled summer at Killgloom Park, a Coney Island, New York amusement park in the 1930's. A runaway tiger! Tracking down a wanted thief! Climbing down a ferris wheel in the middle of the night! These are just a few of the exciting things that happen during this adventurous summer! The author grew up in the world of amusement parks, providing first hand material for two of his boys books – “On the Sands of Coney” and its sequel, this title - “Killgloom Park”. (“On the Sands of Coney” is still under copyright, and cannot be recorded, but it is not necessary to be familiar with it to enjoy this book!) The author was a Catholic Jesuit Priest, and in 1926 he was appointed a Scout Chaplain for the Greater New York City Scout Camps. He spent many years involved with the Boy Scouts, and wrote a long list of stories and books, mainly fiction, for and about scouts. (Summary by Maria Therese)...

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Adventure, Children, Fiction, Teen/Young adult

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Adventure, Children, Fiction

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This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led by the fearsome Feofar-Khan. When telegraph lines are cut between the Russian Far East and the mainland, Strogoff must make his way through hostile territory to warn the governor of the return of the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a disgraced former officer who seeks vengeance against the Tsar’s family by the destruction of Irkutsk. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)...

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Adventure, Fiction

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A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight. To quote the author though presented in the guise of fiction, this chronicle of the Marston family must not be set down by the reader as wholly fanciful or exaggerated. Much of the narrative is literally true, as can be verified by official records. A lifelong residence in Australia may be accepted as a guarantee for fidelity as to local colour and descriptive detail. (Summary by Annise )...

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Adventure, Fiction

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Die Höhlenkinder ist eine Jugendbuch-Triologie von Alois Theodor Sonnleitner. Die beiden Waisen Eva und Peter werden in einem entlegenen Gebirgstal von der Aussenwelt abgeschnitten und lernen, wie Urmenschen zu überleben. Anhand der Beschreibung des Lebenslaufs der beiden Kinder lässt Sonnleitner die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Menschheit von der Steinzeit über die Bronzezeit bis zur Eisenzeit an dem jugendlichen Leser im Zeitraffertempo vorüberziehen. Dies ist der dritte Band der Trilogie, in dem Eva und Peter in eine Bärenhöhle und ein Steinhaus umziehen und Eltern werden. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia und Sonja) Erster Band: /die-hoehlenkinder-im-heimlichen-grund-by-alois-theodor-sonnleitner/ Die Höhlenkinder - Im heimlichen Grund Zweiter Band: /die-hoehlenkinder-im-pfahlbau-by-alois-theodor-sonnleitner/ Die Höhlenkinder - Im Pfahlbau...

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Adventure, Children

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This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high birth, who have recently lost their fathers (one to death, one to banishment), fall in love but are separated almost at once and forced to flee to the Forest of Arden. There they meet again, but as Rosalynde is disguised for safety as a boy, named Ganymede, her lover Rosader does not recognize her. Once Rosader has confided his love to Ganymede, they play a game in which the boy poses as Rosalynde to give Rosader practice in wooing. As the comic episodes, replete with dramatic irony, accumulate, minor characters with complementary romantic relationships fill in the spectrum of the sublime ludicrousness of sexual love until the shadow of death (which is not excluded from Arcadia!) brings matters to a happy conclusion. The various sets of lovers are appropriately joined, and once the corrupt seats of authority back home have been either purged or reformed, Rosalynde's banished father the Duke and the high-born lovers return to civilization, bringing with them a better understanding of what really...

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Adventure, Comedy, Romance

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Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. Kingsley was an outspoken critic of European colonialism, a champion for indigenous customs, and a dedicated campaigner for a revised British policy which supported traders and merchants over the needs of settlers and missionaries. Her adventures were extraordinary and fascinating. Among other things she fought with crocodiles, fell into native spear traps and was caught in a tornado on the slopes of Mount Cameroon. She traveled in West Africa wearing the same clothes she always wore in England: long, black, trailing skirts, tight waists, high collars and a small fur cap. These same clothes saved her life when she fell into a game pit, the many petticoats protecting her from being impaled on the stakes below. This is her story in her own words of her adventures and the people and culture of West Africa. (Summary by Kehinde)...

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Travel, Adventure

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This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savage)

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Adventure, Children, Fantasy

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In this sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is playing with her kittens — a black kitten and a white kitten, the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in the first book — when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection... (summary from wikipedia)...

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Adventure, Children, Fantasy, Humor, Teen/Young adult

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A six year-old girl named Mary spends Christmas vacation with her parents in the Arizona desert of 1901 or thereabouts. ( Summary by BellonaTimes )

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Adventure, Children, Nature

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Die Höhlenkinder ist eine Jugendbuch-Triologie von Alois Theodor Sonnleitner. Die beiden Waisen Eva und Peter werden in einem entlegenen Gebirgstal von der Aussenwelt abgeschnitten und lernen, wie Urmenschen zu überleben. Anhand der Beschreibung des Lebenslaufs der beiden Kinder lässt Sonnleitner die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Menschheit von der Steinzeit über die Bronzezeit bis zur Eisenzeit an dem jugendlichen Leser im Zeitraffertempo vorüberziehen. Dies ist der Erste Band der Trilogie, in dem die Kinder in einer Höhle Unterschlupf finden, den Wert des Feuers schätzen lernen, Essbares in ihrem Tal finden, und erste Geräte, Werkzeuge, Waffen und Kleidung herstellen. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia und Sonja)...

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Adventure, Children