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Adventure

Aiken, Joan – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase L1020

Beatty, Patricia – Lupita Manana   L760

Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Tarzan   L1270

Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe  L1320

Duman, Alexander – Count of Monte Cristo   L930

Gardiner, John Reynolds – Stone Fox   L550

George, Jean Craighead – Julie L700, Julie of the Wolves L860

Heyerdahl, Thor – Aku-Aku, Kon-Tiki (nonfiction)   L1310

Hobbs, Will  -- Far North 820L,  Crossing the Wire 670L

Junger, Sebastian – The Perfect Storm (301 pages)  L1140

Kipling, Rudyard – Captain’s Courageous L1020

Korman, Gordon -- Everest: The Climb 710L, The Contest 690L, The Summit 700L  (for nonfiction: No Summit Out of Sight by Jordan Romero, the youngest person to summit all seven (plus one) of the world's tallest mountains.)

Krakauer, Jon – Into Thin Air  (378 pages) L1320

McKinley, Robin – The Blue Sword  L1030 , (fantasy)

The Hero and the Crown L1120 (fantasy)

Myers, Walter Dean – The Righteous Revenge L980 and others

O’Dell, Scott – The King’s Fifth L840 , Island of the Blue Dolphins L1000 (184 pages), The Black Pearl (96 pages), Zia, Sing Down the Moon L820 (multicultural and historical)

Orczy, Baroness – The Scarlet Pimpernel    L1140 (historical) 

Paulsen, Gary (not allowed by some teachers) - Hatchet L1020 (195 pages), The River (132 pages), Brian’s Winter (133 pages),

Brian’s Return (115 pages)

Richter, Conrad – The Light in the Forest L870 (120 pages) (historical and multicultural) 

Smith, Roland -- Cryptid Hunters (750L)   -- sort of sci fi (living dinosaurs) 

Sperry, Armstrong – Call It Courage L830

Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped  L990  (historical and classic)) 

Treasure Island L1100 (historical and classic)

Swift, Johathan – Gulliver’s Travels  L1330 (classic and fantasy)

Taylor, Theodore – The Cay  L860  (144 pages), Timothy of the Cay (176 pages) (historical) 

Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Hobbit L1000, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy  L860, 810, 920, any others (fantasy)

Twain, Mark – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  L990, Adventures of Tom Sawyer L950  

Ullman, James – Banner in the Sky L680