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Two hundred and fifty stories about landing somewhere with no time to prepare. A farmhouse set down by a cyclone among small, polite strangers, an uncle who sells his own nephew onto a brig bound for the Carolinas, an adrenaline junkie who opens with a line about climbing into your heart instead of a rock face, an old seaman keeping watch at a family inn for a man with one leg. Explanations, when they come, come late.

TeenThe Riddle of the SandsA bored Foreign Office clerk is invited to the Baltic for duck-shooting and finds a scrubby yacht, no paid hand, and no explanations.Complete · 266 chaptersTeenHerlandThree men fly a biplane into a country that has had no men in it for two thousand years, and are promptly and politely locked up.Complete · 120 chaptersTeenThe Wonderful Wizard of OzA Kansas cyclone sets a farmhouse down in a country of small polite people who hail the crash as a liberation.Complete · 91 chaptersTeenThe Scarlet PimpernelParis feeds the guillotine daily, yet the condemned keep vanishing — spirited out by an Englishman nobody can name.Complete · 67 chaptersMatureFree SoloBrandon Ackerman greets you with a climbing pun and a promise: life with him is fast, exciting, and never boring.Complete · 47 chapters18+Outlaw SweetheartComplete · 45 chaptersTeenKidnappedYour uncle sends you up an unfinished staircase in the dark, and by the week's end has sold you to a brig bound for the Carolinas.Complete · 42 chaptersTeenTreasure IslandAn old seaman with a sabre scar takes the room at your father's inn and pays you fourpence a month to watch for a one-legged man.Complete · 39 chaptersTeenThe Prisoner of ZendaAn idle Englishman is asked at breakfast when he intends to begin doing something.Complete · 22 chaptersMatureThe Sea-WolfA literary critic goes down with a ferry in San Francisco fog and is pulled out by a sealing schooner with no intention of putting him ashore.Complete · 20 chaptersMatureA Tale of Two CitiesA horseman gallops out of a freezing November night to stop the Dover mail with a message for Jarvis Lorry of Tellson's Bank — you.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenAdventures of Huckleberry FinnNew clothes that resist every joint, three forks at supper, and Miss Watson explaining a heaven Tom Sawyer would not be allowed into.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureAllan QuatermainOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenAround the World in Eighty DaysYou play Jean Passepartout, who has crossed London looking for a dull job with a fixed address.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureBellarion the FortunateOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureCaptain BloodYou are Dr Peter Blood, a former soldier turned physician who rides out to treat a wounded rebel and is arrested for treason before the bandage sets.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenCatrionaYou are David Balfour, two days removed from rags and a murder charge, now rich and still trying to clear James Stewart's name in the Appin affair.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenChanceOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureCleopatraOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureDead Men Tell No TalesYou are Mr. Cole, sailing home from the Australian goldfields aboard the Lady Jermyn with Eva Denison and her father.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureGreenmantleOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenHeart of the WorldOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenHuntingtowerNewly retired, you are Dickson McCunn, on a walking tour meant to prove you are not yet old.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenIvanhoeSunset in the forest near Rotherwood, a storm coming, and Cedric's swine refusing the horn.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureJack SheppardOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenJaphet in Search of a FatherOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenJourney to the WestA stone splits open on Flower Fruit Mountain and you climb out of it, awake, with no mother among the monkeys who come to look.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureKing Solomon's MinesOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenMartin RattlerYou are Martin Rattler, already known to your aunt as a bad boy long before you do anything to earn it.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMasterman ReadyYou are twelve-year-old William, aboard the Pacific as an Atlantic gale drives her before it and her captain sends the family below.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMicah ClarkeYou are Micah Clarke, fishing off the Isle of Wight when a Dutch brig fires on a drowning man; you and Reuben haul him aboard.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMidwinterOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureMoby-DickA raw November in Manhattan, and your feet keep carrying you back to the water.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMontezuma's DaughterOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureMr. Justice RafflesYou are Bunny, waiting up when A. J.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMr StandfastYou are Richard Hannay, disguised as the pacifist Cornelius Brand and sent into a Cotswolds house of pacifists to find one hidden German agent.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenNewton ForsterYou are Mr Forster, a retired sailor whose old wound does not stop you climbing the cliff when Mrs Beazely hears gunfire off the Cumberland coast.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureNostromoOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureOld MortalityOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureOmooOngoing · 6 chaptersMaturePharaohOngoing · 6 chaptersMaturePrester JohnOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureQuo VadisYou are Marcus Vinicius, a tribune just back from the eastern legions, calling on your uncle Petronius while he recovers from one of Nero's banquets.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureRobbery Under ArmsYou play Dick Marston — twenty-nine, twenty-nine days from the gallows, and handed paper by a warder who will not say whether your brother is alive.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenRobinson CrusoeYour father shuts the chamber door in York to settle your hunger for voyages.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureRomance of the Three KingdomsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureScaramoucheYou play Andre-Louis, a young lawyer in Brittany whose closest friend Philippe accuses the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr of killing a tenant for sport.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureSheYou are Holly, a Cambridge don who is handed a locked iron box and a five-year-old boy by a friend who dies before he can explain either.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenSir NigelYou play young Nigel Loring, whose family's land is being consumed by a lawsuit from Waverley Abbey.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureSuch Is LifeYou are revisiting a single line from your own 1883 diary — Thompson, Cooper, the Ten-Mile Pines — and turning memory back into a night on the road.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Ball and the CrossYou are MacIan, newly arrived from the Highlands, and a newspaper's attack on the Virgin sends a paving stone through its window.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Black ArrowOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Children of the New ForestOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Cloud Dream of the NineYour master sends you down the mountain with a sealed greeting for the Dragon King.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Coral IslandOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Count of Monte CristoThe Pharaon comes into Marseille under a mourning flag: her captain died at sea, and you, Edmond Dantes, nineteen, have brought her home in his place.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Cruise of the DazzlerYou are Joe Bronson, restless and failing at school despite a sister who could help if you let her.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe DeerslayerYou play Deerslayer, new to the frontier, heading for the lake called Glimmerglass with his companion Hurry Harry to meet the Mohican Chingachgook.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Enchanted Island of YewOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Frozen PirateOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Ghost KingsYou are Rachel Dove, fifteen, gathering food on a river island as drought pushes your missionary family deeper into Pondoland.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Gorilla HuntersOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Grand Babylon HotelYou play Theodore Racksole, an American railway millionaire dining with your daughter Nella at London's grandest hotel.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe House of the WolfingsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe King's OwnYou play Willy, son of a sailor wrongly accused and swept into the Nore mutiny, then raised as ship's boy by Old Adams once both parents are gone.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Last Days of PompeiiYou are Glaucus, an Athenian newly home in luxury-loving Pompeii.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Last of the MohicansThe road out of Fort Edward is crowded with wagons and frightened families, and the column is about to march north.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe LifeboatYou are Bax, taking your first command of a schooner you already know is unsound, sent to sea regardless by her owner.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Man Who Was ThursdayYou play Gabriel Syme, a poet who defends order at a Saffron Park garden party while hiding that you work for Scotland Yard.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Man with the Golden TouchYou are Timar, captain of a grain ship being towed upriver through the Iron Gate by thirty-two horses.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Master of BallantraeOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Mutiny of the ElsinoreOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe People of the MistYou are Leonard Outram, watching your family estate auctioned off room by room after your father's fraud, disgrace, and death.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Pirate CityOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe PrairieOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe PrivateersmanAboard the privateer Revenge off Hispaniola, you watch a French merchantman decide whether to fight or surrender, a family sheltering below her decks.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Red EricOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Red Rat's DaughterOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe RefugeesOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe RescueOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Roots of the MountainsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe RoverOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Sea-HawkOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Sea LionsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Snake's PassOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Story of Hong GildongOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Story of Sonny SahibOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Story of the Glittering PlainOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Thirty-Nine StepsYou play Richard Hannay, bored with London and already pricing a passage back to southern Africa.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Three MusketeersOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Tower of LondonYou are Jane Grey, sixteen and married days ago into a plot you resisted before family loyalty won.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Two AdmiralsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe UnderdogsPalomo barks three times toward the lower trail, and two federal soldiers kick in the door of a mountain hut wanting supper.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Water of the Wondrous IslesYou play Birdalone, stolen as a child and raised beside a great lake by a Witch-Wife who works you like a servant.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Well at the World's EndOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe White CompanyYou play John of Hordle, a novice on trial before the abbot of Beaulieu for drinking, brawling, and laughing with a girl through the laundry gate.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Wood Beyond the WorldOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe World of IceYou play Fred, fifteen when your father's ship leaves for the northern whaling grounds and fails to return to harbor for three years running.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe World's DesireYou play Odysseus, home again to an Ithaca gone silent, its halls empty of Penelope and Telemachus alike.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenTom Cringle's LogYou play Tom Cringle, thirteen, commissioned to HMS Breeze and given four days to say goodbye to your widowed mother before Portsmouth.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureTypeeYou are a sailor on the whaler Dolly, fifteen months out with years of the voyage still ahead, when she finally reaches Nukuheva.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureUncle BernacOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenValpergaOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureVictoryYou play Axel Heyst, the last inhabitant of a failed coal station, drawn back to town only to sign a liquidator's paper.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureWater MarginA woman is crying behind the partition and the jokes stop.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenWaverleyYou play Captain Edward Waverley, a young dragoon given a week's leave to deliver his uncle's letter to an old family friend in the Highlands.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenWhen the World ShookOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureWhite-JacketOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenA Bevy of GirlsMarcia Aldworth returns from teaching in Frankfurt to care for her ill stepmother.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Crooked PathBertie Payne pulls a child out of a hansom's path and expects no reward.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Legend of MontroseNear sunset Lord Menteith and two servants rode beside a Highland lake toward a house beyond the rising pass.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAnne of GeiersteinYou left Lucerne on foot beside your father while Antonio led the baggage mule along the mountain road.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAt Aboukir and AcreNine months after returning from school in England, you rode home at dusk from work in your father's Alexandria business.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAt AgincourtAt Summerley, tenants watched twenty-five selected archers practise before Sir Eustace returned to his French estate.Preview · 1 chapterMatureAt LargeRecent rain has turned the track to red mud, and the hawker wagon crawls between pools that burn with the setting sun.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAway in the WildernessAfter weeks of canoe travel, you climbed a low hill beside Jasper Derry and looked across a lake held perfectly still by evening.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBeatriceOn her twenty-second birthday Beatrice Granger stood at the Dog Rocks while fog erased the Welsh coast behind her.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBeric the BritonFour months after release from years as a Roman hostage, you stood with Boduoc looking across at Camalodunum.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Big OtterAt forty degrees below zero, you followed Jack Lumley through four feet of snow toward North River.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBlack IvorySix feet of water already filled the Aurora when the carpenter measured the hold a second time.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBlown to BitsIn the darkest hour of an 1883 night, the brig Sunshine lay without wind on the Indian Ocean.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBlue JacketsThree young naval officers finally win a day ashore—on strict orders to stay together and avoid trouble.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBonnie Prince CharlieOn a September evening in 1728, Bailie Andrew Anderson finished a long supper grace while an impatient visitor knocked below three times.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBoth Sides the BorderFrom the lookout of the stone hold, you saw sunrise flash on a spearhead where your father's raiding party should return.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBunyip LandYou bent over a map of New Guinea while Nurse Brown warned that study and impossible plans would ruin your eyes.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBy England's AidMore than a year after Francis Vere left Hedingham to serve in the Netherlands, you and Lionel still intended to follow when old enough.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBy Pike and DykeThe Good Venture returned from the Low Countries to Rotherhithe, where your Dutch mother waited for news of relatives living under persecution.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBy Right of ConquestOn 3 March 1516, the eighty-ton Swan returned to Plymouth from Genoa and Cadiz under your command.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCastle DangerousNear the end of a spring day, two footsore travellers approached Douglas Castle through country divided by war.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCharge!Bob burst into the ostrich enclosure so quickly that the young birds scattered from his path.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCharlie to the RescueCharlie Brooke once broke a household rule to put out his burning clothes.Preview · 1 chapterTeenChasing the SunAfter years managing the family works, you announced a three-month holiday to chase the summer sun northward.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCormorant CragYour father called you to the surgery door with a large bottle in one hand and a smaller one waiting to be filled.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCount Robert of ParisAt evening Hereward paused outside Constantinople's Golden Gate, newly arrived in a city whose splendour remained strange.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCrown and SceptreYou crossed the autumn moor toward Markham Hall, still testing the boot that had stopped an adder's strike.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCutlass and CudgelYou took the dawn watch hungry and yawning while cold fog beaded the cutter's deck and rigging.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDiamond DykeDry scrub snapped under your boots as you walked toward the granite kopje without looking back.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDoctor TherneAt twenty-seven, James Therne left three weeks of voluntary yellow-fever work in Vera Cruz to travel inland by diligence.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDraw Swords!Young officers crowded the broad veranda while you held the blue order appointing you to Horse Artillery.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDusty Diamonds Cut and PolishedYou sat in a wicker carriage behind a young Shetland pony that objected to every shining buckle of its new harness.Preview · 1 chapterTeenEremaAfter eight hard weeks with a wagon train, your father abruptly announced that he and his fifteen-year-old daughter would leave it.Preview · 1 chapterTeenErling the BoldTwenty years before your manhood, Haldor the Fierce and Ulf of Romsdal fought over Herfrida on a sea-girt rock.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFire in the WoodsPhil and Pat had explored every reachable view around Saint John's Reversing Falls except two river islands.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFire IslandThe Planet climbed another wall of water and plunged until the deck vanished beneath foam.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFor Name and FameMrs Ripon stood beside the splintered fowl-house door, grieving for twelve prize birds that had known her step.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFor the TempleYou lay above the bright lake, following fishing boats with your eyes while thought travelled farther than they did.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFred Markham in RussiaFred and Harry Markham burst through the family doorway with the same news and scarcely enough breath to tell it.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGascoyneThe low black schooner rested on a glassy Pacific until a faint breeze filled her immaculate sails.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHarold, the Last of the Saxon KingsOn the second morning of May 1052, London still wore yesterday's flowers, but revellers avoided the old Roman house beside the Kent road.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHarry Heathcote of GangoilTwo weeks before a Queensland Christmas, you returned after dark with heat still rising from the thirty-thousand-sheep run.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHeld Fast for EnglandMr Purfleet watched four boys confer in a playground corner, certain your quiet meant another plan was forming.Preview · 1 chapterTeenIn Freedom's CauseAt fifteen, you joined a ball game on the village green beneath the small castle your widowed mother still occupied.Preview · 1 chapterTeenIn the King's NameThe Kestrel moves well in this light breeze, and every sail and brass gun is ready for inspection.Preview · 1 chapterTeenJack ArcherThe new term at King's School had barely begun when your master displayed the Latin verses you had failed to repair over holiday.Preview · 1 chapterTeenJarwin and CuffyThree weeks after a leaking barque sank, you and the terrier Cuffy were the only survivors left on its raft.Preview · 1 chapterTeenJessCaptain John Niel rode through autumn heat toward a farm where he hoped to begin life again outside the army.Preview · 1 chapterTeenJohn CaldigateYour Cambridge degree arrived only after your father paid eight hundred pounds of recognized debt and barred you from Folking.Preview · 1 chapterTeenKate BonnetNear the Barbadoes river, you wore white flowers visible from the bridge and let a baited hook rest on the bank.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLittle Miss JoyPatience Harrison watched the sleeping rows at four in the morning, waiting for a husband who had vanished and a son who had fled after a quarrel.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLittle Sunshine's HolidayThough not yet three, you insisted that every fact be named exactly and corrected even Mamma when a shawl was really a waterproof.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMark SeaworthThe ocean lay flat under a hard sun, and a battered launch drifted without sail or oar while two dead sailors faced the sky.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMarmaduke MerryBreakfast at the Merry estate was usually a storm of cups, voices, bread, and laughter until the post-bag gave Joliffe Merry a reason to stop.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMass' GeorgeYour father bent over final letters for General Oglethorpe's expedition while you studied pictures nearby.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMenhardocAt sunrise you and Josh Helston shook the night's pilchards from netting into the lugger's hold.Preview · 1 chapterMatureMichael's CragThe Lizard moor runs gray to a wedge of black water, and Penmorgan House sits in a hollow that hides the wider view.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMiddy and EnsignAt sunset HMS Startler carried sailors, four companies of soldiers, and the British Resident's party toward Campong Allee.Preview · 1 chapterMatureMollie's Prince: A NovelThe September lime avenue glows above Chelsea Hospital, where scarlet-coated pensioners argue beneath trees older than their stories.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMother Carey's ChickenAt sixteen you asked Captain Strong to take you on his next voyage instead of leaving you with books and shore-bound plans.Preview · 1 chapterTeenNed GarthLieutenant Pack and Ned Garth stood above a deep English bay while rain and mist hid the brig that was trying to clear the headland.Preview · 1 chapterTeenNic RevelCaptain Revel called you late before you had fully reached the breakfast table.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOff to the WildsYou, Dick, and Dinny watched Sepopo try one discarded boot while Bechele lounged nearby in the sunny yard.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOrange and GreenThe ruins around your family home still marked Cromwell's assault, while most former Davenant land belonged to the Whitefoots nearby.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOur BessieThe train stopped three miles from Cliffe-on-Sea, its engine buried against a drift while snow turned the windows white.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPaddy FinnTerence Finn stood before Ballinahone Castle where the Shannon ran past old walls, a drawbridge, and a hall crowded with inherited weapons.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPeter the WhalerPeter stood before his father with a gun in his hand, two dogs at his feet, and pheasants, partridges, and hares laid out as evidence.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPeter TrawlPeter Trawl toddled beside his father and brother Jack from the Keppel's Head toward the Common Hard, gripping a boat-hook too large for him.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPicked Up AdriftWith the Baie de Chaleur adventures behind them, the Antelope's company held a council on deck.Preview · 1 chapterTeenQuentin DurwardOn a clear summer morning, nineteen-year-old Quentin Durward approached a swollen brook near the dark towers of Plessis-les-Tours.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRienzi, the Last of the Roman TribunesOn a quiet summer evening, Cola di Rienzi walked beside the Tiber with the younger brother who alone welcomed his ambitious dreams.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRob RoyAfter four years in Bordeaux, Frank Osbaldistone returned to his father's London house under an urgent summons.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRoger WilloughbyRoger Willoughby hid in a bramble-lined hollow above the Lyme cliffs with a navigation book, watching a ship labor against the Channel breeze.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSail Ho!Leave the chest where it is; the dock porter will take it when I have paid the driver.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSnow Shoes and CanoesThe summer route from Fort Ross to Black Fort had lost its canoe in the rapids, so ammunition and winter stores now travelled on eight pack-horses.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSt. George for EnglandCold November rain had emptied the Southwark road when a young woman carrying a child knocked at your cottage.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSteve YoungCaptain Hendal faced your party on the Norwegian wharf and demanded permission to speak without courtesy.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSwallow: A Tale of the Great TrekAfter four days of south-east gale, Vrouw Botmar climbed the kopje with seven-year-old Suzanne to watch the breakers strike the cliffs.Preview · 1 chapterTeen!TentionFrench volleys rolled along the ravine while rifle smoke rose through chestnut and cork trees.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThaddeus of WarsawWar reached Poland while Villanow still held the order created by Palatine Constantine Sobieski and his freed tenants.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe AbbotNearly ten childless years had passed since the Lady of Avenel married Sir Halbert Glendinning.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Adventures of a BrownieThe family had long set Brownie's nightly milk just inside the cellar, where its small household guardian hid.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Adventures of Captain HornA spring tornado struck the Castor before the morning observation and left the schooner rolling without mast or rudder.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Adventures of Don LavingtonA sugar hogshead descended within inches of your head before Jem's shout stopped Mike at the crane.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Adventures of Harry RichmondNear two in the morning, the outer bell and blows on the hall door tore you from a dream of fire.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe American BaronAfter crossing the snowy pass and stopping at Simplon, March cold followed the party into the descent.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Battle and the BreezeYears at sea had taught you, Bill Bowls, that a rising wind could hide more danger than its present force revealed.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Black BarThe cutter pulled through heavy heat toward the Nautilus while Bob accused both of you of making a serious mistake.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Boy KnightAt fifteen, you watched armed retainers from surrounding holdings ride toward Earl Walter's castle in unusual numbers.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Bravest of the BraveMayor Richard Anthony caught sixteen-year-old Jack speaking with fourteen-year-old Alice at the garden gate after forbidding further contact.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe BrethrenRosamund's curiosity about her Syrian ancestry unsettles her twin cousins on a quiet Essex coast.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Buffalo RunnersFor two days and a night, you and Fergus McKay forced a straight line through a prairie blizzard.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Caged LionIn the bleak spring of 1421, Sir David Drummond prayed beside Glenuskie's hall fire for a lawless Scotland, his absent son, and the captive King.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Cat of BubastesThe Rebu capital emptied its fighting men as a much larger Egyptian force approached after earlier invasions had failed.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Crew of the Water WagtailThe Water Wagtail left Bristol for Norway with forty sailors gathered during a season when reliable crews were scarce.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Crystal HuntersYou had spread yourself against a steep rock to reach wild rhododendrons when Richard Dale ordered you to stop.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Dingo BoysAs the Ann Eliza neared the rough wharf, idlers ashore shouted that you should settle nearby rather than travel inland.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Dragon and the RavenIn 870, fourteen-year-old Edmund waited with his wolf-hound on a dry hummock hidden deep inside the fens.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Eagle CliffAn urgent invitation to join a yacht reached you after the final train, leaving a sixty-mile bicycle ride as the surest route.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Fortunes of NigelKing James wore both crowns, but in London the old division between English and Scots survived in court complaint, street joke, and sudden brawl.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Frontier FortA supply train crosses the prairie bound for Edmonton, while Hector Mackintosh longs to reach his father's isolated post at Fort Duncan.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe FugitivesYou were Doctor Mark Breezy, running single file through dense forest with the sailor Hockins and James Ginger, called Ebony.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Giant of the NorthRumours from southern travellers had brought you, Chingatok, across water and ice to the coast of Greenland.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Gilpins and Their FortunesArthur Gilpin and Mark Withers left Wallington School arm in arm, both old enough to face work and still young enough to argue about it.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Girls of St. Wode'sYou rode home from St Wode's beside your twin Marjorie and cousin Letitia, all three newly eighteen.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Golden DreamYou stood in a cavern whose walls, floor, hanging lamps, and moving company all appeared to be made of gold.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Golden MagnetYour father said you would never earn a living while books, long walks, and dreams mattered more than the family soap works.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe Great TabooThe Australasian is thirteen days out from Sydney, rolling toward the equator while Boupari's palms fade to leeward.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Hot SwampCaptain Arkal's ship waited under one square sail while its double bank of oars remained ready to leave Greece for distant Albion.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Island QueenAfter days on short allowance and four without food, the open boat barely moved on a calm Southern Ocean.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe King's SonsFour princes lay on a green hillside above their father's sheep, wooden swords and bows near at hand.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Last of the BaronsIn the spring of 1467, London's holiday crowds filled the new pastime ground west of Charing with archery, dice, ale, and courtly spectators.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Lily and the CrossThe Boston schooner Parson lay nearly motionless inside a dense May fog on the way toward Louisbourg.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Lion of Saint MarkMoonlight silvered the lagoon as you and Matteo stood between the ducal palace and the crowded landing steps.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Lion of the NorthThree days of rain had turned the River Nith into a brown torrent when you saw two expected horsemen reach the wrong ford.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Missing ShipFor days the Ouzel Galley lay motionless under a tropical sun, with fever in the cabins and only the yards creaking above the glassy Atlantic.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Peril FindersDoctor Lee corked the precious ink and asked where you and Ned had spent the morning.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Scottish ChiefsScotland had submitted to Edward, and William Wallace kept apart at Ellerslie rather than pretend that conquest was peace.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe SettlersCaptain Amyas Layton's house stood above Plymouth Sound behind a moat, a drawbridge, and trophies taken from Spanish ships.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Silver CanyonThe last antelope steaks had been cleared when Dr Lascelles asked Joses whether fear would turn him back.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe South Sea WhalerThe pilot left the Champion below the Mersey, blessing Captain Tredeagle and the two children who would share a three-year Pacific voyage.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe TalismanAt noon a solitary Crusader crossed the waste beside the Dead Sea toward three palms and a promised well.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Tiger of MysoreBen Birket retold the wreck because your search depended upon every detail surviving six years of grief and uncertainty.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Treasure of the SeasSunrise found the battered Antelope still surrounded by open Atlantic after a fortnight without a known position.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe WanderersPreview · 1 chapterTeenThe Young CarthaginianHeat pressed soldiers and animals motionless beneath two groves while the western sun sank toward the Libyan hills.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Young RajahThe Glamorgan Castle carried passengers toward India, with the sea broad around her and Captain Lyford's crew moving through a crowded deck.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThrough the FrayOne o'clock released Mr Hathorn's pupils from lessons and from the cane he considered the chief instrument of education.Preview · 1 chapterTeenTo Win or to DieYour denial struck the snow cliff and returned as an echo through the empty gorge.Preview · 1 chapterTeenTrue BlueThe Terrible fought an Atlantic gale under reefed canvas, her masts bending while the long-served crew trusted the ship and the officers.Preview · 1 chapterTeenTrue to the Old FlagFour months after leaving unsettled Massachusetts, you walked beside your cousin William Welch on his isolated Lake Huron farm.Preview · 1 chapterTeenUnder Drake's FlagA May storm kept Westport's fishermen indoors discussing Francis Drake's ships at Plymouth and the men refused places aboard.Preview · 1 chapterTeenUnder Wellington's CommandJune heat and weeks of waiting had made Captain O'Grady consider boredom a more immediate enemy than the French.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWee WifieCrystal returned footsore along the sunny road, where tamarisks, harvest fields, and the distant sea made the world look happier than she felt.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWill WarburtonWill Warburton returns from an Alpine holiday to a household that needs his help and a painter friend planning a marriage he can scarcely afford.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWith Clive in IndiaSix months after your coast-guard father died, you found your mother crying over the answer to her appeal for your future.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWith Frederick the GreatYour father had died at Culloden, and confiscation reduced your inheritance to a small Highland holding eventually returned to your mother.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWith Kitchener in the SoudanIn a Pimlico attic, you read an advertisement for general work at a commercial house with a branch in Alexandria.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWon by the SwordIn 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