adventure stories

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adventure stories

Tom Sawyer

2008
A graphic novel version of the adventures of Tom and his friends growing up in a small Missouri town on the banks of the Mississippi River in the nineteenth century.

The highwayman's footsteps

2006
In eighteenth-century England, William runs away from his father, only to be captured by an armed highwayman who turns out to be a girl, and together they seek vengeance against William's cruel father and the soldiers who killed the girl's parents.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped

2007
Retells in graphic novel format Stevenson's story about David Balfour who, after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

The weather mage

2007
Galia Soradotter, a young wizard of the Misty Isles, has a powerful dream telling her that there is something that she must do, while Cat Ashdale wants to find Garth Spellman, and Talisa Thatcher wants to save wrongfully charged Cory Updale.

On fortune's wheel

1992
Faced with the prospect of an unhappy life in the Kingdom, fourteen-year-old Birle accompanies a young runaway nobleman on a journey south and falls into slavery in the citadel of a cruel prince.

Escapade Johnson and the phantom of the science fair

2009
Escapade Johnson, thinking the school science fair is boring, realizes someone is tampering with the projects and sets out to find the culprit.

Wagon train adventure

2008
In 1849, twelve-year-old Sarah and her family and friends have an adventure while traveling west to California.

The man in the iron mask

2008
An abridged version of the tale of the four Musketeers' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

The wizard's statue

2004
Randal, a young wizard, begins a dangerous adventure when a dying man gives him a mysterious statue. The man's last request is that Randal give the statue to a mercenary named Dagon.

Secret of the tower

2004
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.

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