CALL TO ADVENTURE
edited by Robert Spiers Benjamin
Here is adventure of every kind! Fishing for the broad-bill swordfish in Catalina waters, an airplane crash in the Andalusian desert, a trip around Cape Horn, a shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, a walrus hunt, an encounter with cannibals, an attack by a bear from the ice floes of Greenland to the matted jungles of the South Sea Islands, these men of adventure sail and hunt and fight with a courage and abandon that will transport every reader to another, more exciting world.
THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDER—by Zane Grey
Zane Grey’s famous novel of the old West when Indian raids were an everyday affair and the guns of the scouts smoked in a perpetual trail of vengeance against the savages. Joe Downs went West, eager to join the scouts in their exciting life. His brother Jim followed him, to convert the Indians. They found themselves up against the aroused Indians, led by the renegades Simon and Jim Girty, in a war to the death.
A popular condensation of a thrilling story based on historic fact, by the best of all Western writers.
THE LAST TRAIL—by Zane Grey
The Last Trail is the thrilling story of Helen Sheppard, beautiful newcomer to the Wilderness, and Jonathan Zane, one of the last of the bordermen. Bordermen did not fall in love: theirs was the job of tracking down renegade white men and enemy Indians so that the settlers might lead safe and peaceful lives. But when Helen was kidnapped by the renegades, Jonathan discovered how much he loved her; and he and his friend Wetzel set out on a trail of vengeance and destruction.
For the adventure and thrill of frontier life, The Last Trail is hard to equal in the literature of the West. Zane Grey has told his story with mastery and realism, and readers will love this exciting story from the pen of a master storyteller.
ON THE FORTY-YARD LINE—by Jack Wright
Jim Davis, the most popular man on the Grayson campus, was determined to make the football team. His roommates Bob Clark and Chub Garver were already football man and cheerleader respectively. It was easy for Jim to become Coach Kelso’s star passer, but it wasn’t so easy to stay on the team. First, there was the secret between Professor Burke and Jim; second, there was Weldy Gray, who was out to ruin Jim at any cost.
On the Forty-Yard Line is a story filled with the excitement of football, and the courage and loyalty of three pals who fight with equal abandon for their school and for each other.
THE STRIKE-OUT KING—by Julian de Vries
From the moment Larry Murdock is chosen as regular pitcher for the Carson College nine, to the thrilling seconds of the big game with Northern State when Larry battles against almost overwhelming odds, The Strike-Out King is an action-packed story of the diamond that will appeal to the sports-loving instinct of every American boy. An absorbing book no reader will be able to put aside until the last word of the last page has been read.
THE WINNING BASKET—by Duane Yarnell
Honest, eager-eyed Ben Mason was in seventh heaven when he was admitted to Clearview Academy. He had been there only a day when they discovered he was not from a rich, influential family—and Ben was out. How Ben got back into Clearview, and how he fought the antagonism of the student body and the conspiracies of his enemy Jack Lassiter make an absorbing story filled with drama. Every boy will root for Ben as he fights on the basketball court for the school that didn’t want him.
THROUGH FOREST AND STREAM: ADVENTURE IN THE MOUNTAINS—by Duane Yarnell
When Ted and Pudge went to the All-American camp, it was for a summer of good fun. Then they discovered that they were really entered in a contest—a contest involving $50,000 for the college of the boy who won it. Ted just had to win that prize, both to keep baseball at College Tech and to insure his father’s job as baseball coach. How he engaged in a deadly fight with wolves and was entombed in an old mine shaft with a ferocious bear are only two of the many adventures he had.
Ted Moran wins out in a breathless story of heroism and resourcefulness that will thrill its readers.
OVER THE HURDLES—by Emmett Maum
Any boy who has thrilled to the shot of the starting gun and the crunch of spiked shoes on cinders will enjoy the story of Larry Craven, for whom the cinder track was the path of fame from Maywood College to the Olympic games. But all was not smooth going for Larry, for he had many obstacles to surmount and he had enemies who plotted against him. How he won out over his difficulties makes an exciting and vivid sports story.