Adventure

Armstrong, William – Sounder.

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.

Atwater, Richard and Florence - Mr. Popper's Penguins.

Mr. Popper starts out with one penguin in his house, but before he knows it there are twelve.

Balliett, Blue - Chasing Vermeer.

When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

Banks, Lynne Reid – Indian in the Cupboard.

A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.

Burnford, Sheila – The Incredible Journey.

A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.

Fleischman, Sid – Jim Ugly.

The adventures of twelve-year-old Jake and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father.

Gardiner, John Reynolds – Stone Fox.

Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.

Gipson, Fred – Old Yeller.

In the late 1860s in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen-year-old boy form a close, loving relationship.

Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi Longstocking. 

Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.

Martin, Ann - A Dog's Life.

A stray puppy named Squirrel relates her life story, beginning with her nurturing mother; providing details of her experiences with both nice and mean humans, busy highways, and the seasons; and ending with her meeting two friends.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Shiloh.

Marty finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, and tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. Sequel:  Saving Shiloh.

Oppel, Kenneth – Silverwing.

When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.

Peck, Robert – Soup.

Two boys, growing up in a small Vermont town, have a series of adventures and mis-adventures.

Rawls, Wilson – Where the Red Fern Grows.

A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.

Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty.

A horse tells the story of his life in nineteenth-century England, and his treatment under many different masters, from a kind country squire to all kinds of drivers when he was let out for hire.

Smith, Robert - Chocolate Fever.

From eating too much chocolate, Henry breaks out in brown bumps that help him foil some hijackers and teach him a valuable lesson about self-indulgence.

Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.

Taylor, Theodore – The Cay.

Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.

Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The tale is of a mischievous boy growing up in a nineteenth-century Mississippi River town.  Companion novel:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:  Tom Sawyer’s Comrade.

Verne, Jules – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

20,000 Leagues retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.

Wallace, Bill - Coyote Autumn.

After moving to the country, thirteen-year-old Brad, who has always wanted a dog, adopts a motherless coyote.