After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escapes the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavour to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet...

Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by

Captains Courageous is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers,...

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? The answers to these questions become clear when the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable...

A collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad including Youth: A Narrative, Typhoon, and The Secret Sharer.

Anne, Penelope, and Hiro are thriving at Saint Lupin's Quest Academy. They're even nominated for Best Illegal Quest That Nearly Destroyed the Entire World at the annual Quest Academy Awards. But they barely get to enjoy the ceremony before a strange boy triggers another quest. The mission? Kill the dragon queen. There are two big problems (1) Anne doesn't want to kill any dragons-and she certainly doesn't want to ignite a war between people and dragonkind,...

Billie is off on a wild jungle adventure! But can she escape the wriggly pink-and-purple python?

Children go out at night seeking a ghost, through one scary place after another.