adventure stories

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adventure stories

Special ops

2001
A military thriller based on the facts and legend surrounding Che Guevara's revolutionary activities in South America and Africa.

The secret of Shambhala

in search of the eleventh insight
2001
An adventure parable in which the narrator travels to Shambahala in search of spiritual enlightenment.

Kidnapped

1981
A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer

2005
A simple retelling of the adventures of Tom and his friends, who witness a murder by the villainous Injun Joe and sail the Mississippi River pretending to be pirates.

Wanderville

2014
To escape rumored terrors in Kansas, New Yorkers Jack and Frances, eleven, and Frances's brother Harold, seven, jump off an orphan train in 1899 and help new friend Alexander to build Wanderville, a safe place for homeless children.

The Count of Monte Cristo

2009
An illustrated adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic in which Edmond Dant?s, having escaped from an island where he had been imprisoned, plots his revenge on the people responsible for his imprisonment.

The Iliad

2009
Retells the events of the war between Greece and the city of Troy, that focuses on Achilles' quarrel with Agamemnon.

Jimmy Coates: assassin?

2006
While escaping from the strange men that are after him in London, Jimmy discovers he possesses many unusual talents for an eleven-year-old boy.

Dark horse

2005
Becky enters her first endurance challenge, a fifty-mile race over difficult mountain trails, confident in her friend Rob's help, but jealousy threatens her chances when Rob is distracted by a willowy blonde--and soon she realizes some of the riders will stop at nothing to win.

The fetch

2006
After exploring a sea chest full of runes and a journal belonging to his deceased grandfather, fifteen-year-old Sky summons the old man's ghost, who teaches him how to travel through time and space.

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