Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals.
Adventure stories
- Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
An epic of courage and love that moves from war-torn France to the secret heart of the African wilderness. It is the odyssey of a beautiful young woman of aristocratic birth, Centaine de Thiry, in search of love and fortune.
- Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:
In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.
- Author:Higgins, JaneSummary:
"The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of Cityside. Nik is still in high school but is destined for a great career with the...
- Author:LASENBY, JackSummary:
When the gang discover that a flood has turned the creek into a lake with an island, they set about building canoes and a fort; but unknown to them, they are being watched. The third book in the Seddon Street Gang series. Suggested...
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms in the land they carved as their own. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are preparing for the bloody rebellion which will scar...
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets the dashing pearling master, Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the...
- Author:INNES, HammondSummary:
Daredevil ex-RAF pilot, Edwin Cruse, buys a Hercules aeroplane for a mere ten thousand dollars. It is however, awkwardly placed for collection - on an iceberg in the Antarctic! Cruse, and others of less honest disposition, set out to...
- Author:HILL, DavidSummary:
Rob is an experienced tramper. Usually he'd look forward to a week in the bush but three terrible months have left him feeling confused and alone. When things go wrong he can't stop his party of six teenagers from plunging...
- Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:
Submarine Outlaw takes young adult readers on a unique journey when Alfred, a young boy who wants to be an explorer — not a fisherman, as his family demands — teams up with a junkyard genius to build a submarine that he sails around the...
- Author:Oertel, AndreasSummary:
In their last adventure, Cody, Eric, and Rachel were clever enough to fool townspeople with a homemade "ancient Egyptian" tablet. Their exploits brought some much-needed tourism to Sultana, Manitoba, but their deception ensured they...
- Author:CLANCY, TomSummary:
With the Chinese invasion of the oil-rich Spratly Islands, World War III begins, and Capt. Bart Mackey is dispatched with his nuclear submarine to protect a carrier group. Fifteen fact-based mission profiles present real to life...
- Author:Gordon, RoderickSummary:
The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also...
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
Story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom grow rich and powerful but never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other.
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
A brilliant but psychotic pianist who kills for pleasure, accidentally kills the daughter of a tough SAS Colonel, himself a vicious killer.
- Author:ANTHONY, EvelynSummary:
In occupied France, it's not always easy to tell the difference between collaboration and resistance. In an atmosphere of betrayal and brutality, the village of St Blaize is forced to cooperate with the troops but German scientists...
- Author:IHIMAERA, WitiSummary:
Stroppy teenager Skylark O'Shea is on holiday with her mother at a town on the coast. But all is not what it seems. What is the threat facing the town and the birds of the forest? Where do the two old charismatic Maori women Hoki...
- Author:Cleri, MarioSummary:
In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, a young American soldier, is brutally tortured by Nazi officers and left for dead. Vowing revenge, he begins a quest to track down and kill each one of his tormentors. Dark,...
- Author:Chandler, AnnSummary:
On summer vacation in Siena, Angela befriends a fiery horse and trains him to race in the Palio, despite being written off by the horse's owners.
- Author:FRANCIS, DickSummary:
Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist lives a calm and ordered life. That is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion. By accident, Perry learns more secrets than wind...