A classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves. The account of Mowgli's adventures is followed by several short stories, including the tales of the brave white seal, Kotick, and the tenacious mongoose.

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The is the second of three titles in the adventures of a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap’n Bill. Trot is near her home when she meets a strange little boy, Button Bright, with a large umbrella. They journey to an island in the sky by means of an enchanted umbrella.

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This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig. These stories became very successful, the most well-known of Richard Barnum's tales.

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Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action.

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A classic story which three children are pulled suddenly from their comfortable suburban life. They move to the country with their mother where they come to know and love the ways of the railways.

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Horatio Alger, Jr. was well known for his best-selling series of books highlighting “the American Dream” of poor boys making good and becoming rich and successful through “luck and pluck”. Ragged Dick was the first in this niche, and follows the adventures of Dick Hunter, a ragged bootblack as he makes the decision to “grow up ’spectable”, and how he goes about achieving his goals through the help of his friends, his inherent honesty, and his belief in hard work and study.

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Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook.

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In the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. His fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world and soon he sets off to cure a monkey epidemic in Africa, finding all sorts of exciting adventures on the way.

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A beautiful and impulsive Irish girl enters Great Shirley School. She is frivolous with a casual disdain of what could be important to the other girls and converts others to her ways of thinking and acting. News of Kathleen's exploits reach the headmistress and the governors of the school, and an inquiry is made.

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This is a well-known book which has excitement, danger, and heartbreaks, written without the big words that puzzle younger children. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer and writing as Mary Godolphin, accomplishes this with apparent ease in this little book.

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In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men."

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This book follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar chronologically. The action is set during World War I. While away from his plantation home in East Africa, invading German troops destroy it and kill his wife Jane and the Waziri warrior Wasimbu who is left crucified. Tarzan's search for vengeance is filled with much danger, many fierce fights and tons of action as he becomes active in the war on the British side.

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This is the fifth of Tarzan novels. Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home.

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This is the fourth of Tarzan novels. Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his encounter with Tarzan in the third novel and wants to even the score.

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The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship he becomes embroiled in the affairs of Countess Olga de Coude, her husband, Count Raoul de Coude, and two shady characters attempting to prey on them, Nikolas Rokoff and his henchman Alexis Paulvitch.

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This is the third of Tarzan novels. In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. In this novel he finds that proper society is just as vicious as the jungle when greedy men threaten him and his new family.

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Tarzan of the Apes is a story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands of a motherly African ape who raises him as her own. Although he is aware that he is different from the apes of his tribe, who are neither white nor hairless, he nevertheless regards them as his “people.”

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Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically, the events recounted in it actually occur between chapters 12 and 13 of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes.

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Jack Benson and Hal Hastings arrive in Dunhaven looking for adventure and find out that there is a submarine in the shipyard. This is the adventure they have been looking for.

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The torpedo submarine's inventor, Jack Farnum, is looking for investors to help him kick his new shipyard into high gear. He already has his crew set, with sixteen year old Jack Benson as the captain, and his friend Hal Hastings running the engines.

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Captain Jack Benson and Hal Hastings have been sailing in torpedo submarines. There is new danger that they will have to get used to, having the actual torpedoes onboard! They will be trying out a new boat, named after Hal, with the Navy watching closely.

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The Pollard is about to be taken to Annapolis, where the United States Navy will train their midshipmen how to run the submarine. Jack, Hal and Eph are all to help with training and to see the sights in Annapolis. They might even persuade the Navy to buy the second submarine, the Farnum.

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Everyone is waiting for something special that has been promised, the "Benson", the fast submarine built by the Pollard Submarine Boat Company, is set to arrive.

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