Adventure Stories for Grades 3 - 5
at the Elmhurst Public Library

Windcatcher by Avi
Eleven-year-old Tony dreads a summer by the sea, but ends up finding a sailing adventure. (128 p.)

Adrift by Allan Baillie
While playing pirates with his little sister and her cat in an old crate he finds on the beach, a young boy suddenly discovers that they are adrift on the sea and that he must somehow keep them all alive. (119 p.)

The Wolf by Margaret Barbalet
With the passage of time, the wolf that has terrified a famly for the better part of a year loses its ability to inspire fear. (30 p.)

Andy's Mountain by Bianca Bradbury
An eleven-year-old boy and his grandfather resist the State's attempts to take possesson of their farm which is in the path of a proposed highway. (150 p.)

The Night the Monster Came by Mary Calhoun
After finding footprints in the snow, Andy is sure that Bigfoot is stalking his house. (62 p.)

Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Sailing home from India on the steamer Drake, Alec and a wild horse are the only survivors after a storm deposits them on an island. (241 p.)

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the prize money from a dog sled race he enters. (85 p.)

Toughboy and Sister by Kirkpatrick Hill
Ten-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister become stranded at a remote fishing cabin in the Yukon, where they spend the summer trying to cope with dwindling food supplies and hostile wildlife. (128 p.)

Terror at the Zoo by Peg Kehret
Twelve-year-old Ellen and her younger brother Corey are excited about their overnight camp-out at the zoo, until they discover that they are locked inside with a desperate excaped convict. (131 p.)

The Pirate Uncle by Margaret Mahy
Well-behaved Nicholas and Caroline try to reform their pirate uncle when they spend a holiday at his New Zealand beach home. (128 p.)

Snowbound by Harry Mazer
In this survival story, Tony and Cindy spend their days fighting starvation, frostbite and broken bones to try to find a way out of the barren wilderness. (146 p.)

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty 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 dogs. (144 p.)

Soup by Robert Peck
The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town. (96 p.)

Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
A fictional account of the night that devastating tornadoes hit a Nebraska town, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family and friends. (153 p.)

On the Long Trail Home by Elisabeth J. Stewart
Meli and her brother Tahlikwa escape from the Cherokee people being herded westward on the Trail of Tears, determined to return to their beloved mountain home. (106 p.)

Belinda's Hurricane by Elizabeth Winthrop
While waiting out a fierce hurricane in her grandmother's house on Fox Island, Belinda has a chance to get to know her grandmother's neighbor. (54 p.)