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  • Longshanks
    Edward Shenton / Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
    'Longshanks' by acclaimed author Stephen W. Meader offers a compelling journey into the early life of one of America’s most iconic figures: Abraham Lincoln. This captivating work of juvenile historical fiction brings the 19th-century American frontier vividly to life, inviting young readers to experience the formative years of a legendary leader.Meader skillfully crafts a biogr...
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    21,01 €

  • Down the Big River
    Stephen W. Meader / Stephen WMeader
    In 1805, seventeen-year-old Tom Lockwood, his aunt and uncle journey westward from their Pennsylvania farm to join friends living in Missouri. Their peaceful trip down the big Ohio river, aboard a keelboat, turns deadly when the group falls into the hands of river pirates.With the help of friends made along the way, young Tom and his faithful dog, Cub, set about rescuing his fa...
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    13,15 €

  • The Long Trains Roll
    Stephen W. Meader
    Not only an adventure story packed with thrills, this is also a book about railroads that will appeal to all railroad fans.Through Calico Gap, one of the passes to the West through the Appalachian wall, runs a four-track rail artery, an important military objective for enemy sabotage. Randy MacDougal, youngest son in a family of railroaders, stumbled on the clues leading to suc...
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    16,67 €

  • Boy With A Pack
    Stephen W. Meader
    Seventeen-year-old Bill Crawford refused to be licked by the 'hard times' of 1837. Putting every cent he owned into a tin trunk full of 'Yankee notions,' he set out afoot from New Hampshire for the Ohio country. His adventures on the road, as he crossed Vermont, York State, and Pennsylvania and moved southward through Ohio, furnished abundant tests of his courage and character....
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    16,54 €

  • Sparkplug Of The Hornets
    Stephen W. Meader
    Though Peewee Carson had starred on a midget league team in the city, he was really too small to make the high school basketball team in the upstate town to which he and his family had just moved. However, the school enrollment was not large and because the team needed every possible player Peewee got his chance. That was all he needed. Before long it was obvious that, though p...
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    16,75 €

  • Keep ’Em Rolling
    Stephen W. Meader
    Sixteen-year-old Dave Marsh and his family, with their sturdy team of oxen, were part of a wagon train that made the long, dangerous journey to Oregon in the 1840’s. Fording swollen rivers, crossing trackless plains, and struggling over forbidding mountains, they fought against hostile Indians, disease, and thirst with an unshakable determination to reach the green promised lan...
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    16,98 €

  • Who Rides In The Dark?
    Stephen W. Meader
    This is a tale of old stagecoach days in New Hampshire, of country inns which were headquarters for the freight wagons and passenger coaches and of highwaymen in ambush on the lonely mountain roads.Daniel Drew, fifteen years old, came to the 'Fox and Stars' at Deptford to earn his living as stable boy. Before his days at the inn were over, Dan found himself a part of the life o...
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    16,59 €

  • Clear For Action!
    Stephen W. Meader
    In the year 1812, Jeff Robbins, a Maine boy, shipped before the mast on a cargo schooner bound for Cuba. His ship was overhauled by a British frigate, and Jeff, with some of the other men, was impressed for service aboard the British vessel.He learned the endless duties of a sailor in the British Navy and took part in several exciting sea battles with the French. When war was d...
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    16,41 €

  • Behind The Ranges
    Stephen W. Meader
    The wild loveliness of an uninhabited valley high in the Olympic Mountains was hardly disturbed when Dick and his father, with the help of a Forest Ranger, pitched their camp there. Dr. Randolph, a botanist, planned to make a collection of the flora of the region---the wildest and least-explored territory in the United States. Dick hoped to get specimens of the whistling marmot...
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    16,82 €

  • The Voyage Of The Javelin
    Stephen W. Meader
    This is the story of a boy who lived a hundred years ago, when the towering, square-rigged clipper ships were setting records never surpassed in the annals of sail. Young Bob Wingate watched the Javelin being built in a shipyard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and he was in the cheering crowd that saw her launched. Then, by a great stroke of luck, he was fortunate enough to be gi...
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    16,99 €

  • Longshanks
    Stephen W. Meader
    On a night in April, 1828, Tad Hopkins, traveling on a river steamboat to join his father in New Orleans, was robbed and thrown overboard by a famous outlaw. He managed to swim to a flatboat moored to the bank and spent the rest of the night there. When he woke in the morning the boat was moving, and a lanky, black-haired youth called 'Abe' was cooking breakfast.Thus Tad was pa...
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    16,72 €

  • Commodore’s Cup
    Stephen W. Meader
    To Luke Cramer, sailing meant everything, and to have a Comet Class boat of his very own was something he had long dreamed about. Meanwhile, the next best thing was crewing for Bruce Canning whenever there was a race.It seemed, then, like a miracle to Luke to discover a Comet half buried in the muck of a South Jersey inlet where a raging northeaster had flung it. With eager han...
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    16,98 €

  • Snow On Blueberry Mountain
    Stephen W. Meader
    The Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania are the scene of this action-filled story by one of America’s favorite authors of books for young people. Mark Wilkins, a junior in high school and the oldest in a large family, is trying to find ways of supporting them now that his father, a struggling novelist, has died. Their only inheritance is a worthless strip of cutover mountainside. ...
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    16,99 €

  • A Blow For Liberty
    Stephen W. Meader
    Sixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck, a young Nantucketer, had lost his father when their whaler went down in a storm off Cape May, at the southern tip of New Jersey. The orphaned boy had been indentured to a Quaker farmer who treated him with strict fairness. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Jed had a burning ambition to do his part, but what chance did a 'bound' boy have to str...
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    16,99 €

  • King Of The Hills
    Stephen W. Meader
    Stephen Meader is a master of plot and character; he also knows how to make the countryside live and breathe. This tale of New Hampshire mountains is full of magic for any boy who loves the woods.Breck Townsend went to New Hampshire in the hunting season, not to shoot deer but to photograph them. His ambition was to get a picture of the biggest and craftiest stag that ranged th...
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    16,72 €

  • River Of The Wolves
    Stephen W. Meader
    The summer that young Dave Foster went to work on his uncle’s farm in the Maine wilderness, the French were stirring up the Indians to attack colonial settlers. But Uncle Jonathan laughed at the possibility of an Indian attack on their settlement. His assurance was proved tragically wrong within a few days when an Indian war party swept down from Canada, surprised the settlers,...
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    16,71 €

  • Guns For The Saratoga
    Stephen W. Meader
    Stephen Meader’s stirring new novel for young people is a remarkable recreation of a period and, in particular, of life at sea during the Revolutionary War. It is also the story of a boy whose imagination was fired by the newly created American Navy and who eventually became a part of it.There was plenty of work in the early days of the war for all hands at the Batsto ironworks...
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    16,89 €

  • The Muddy Road To Glory
    Stephen W. Meader
    Sixteen-year-old Ben Everett, working on the family farm near Skowhegan, Maine, had been anxious to enlist ever since President Lincoln had first called for volunteers. His chance came unexpectedly when a recruiting sergeant arrived in the village, and in February of 1863, Ben, eager and excited, started on his way to join the famed Twentieth Maine regiment of the Army of the P...
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    16,98 €

  • Cedar’s Boy
    Stephen W. Meader
    Those who have enjoyed Mr. Meader’s Red Horse Hill will remember Cedar, the great pacing colt, and the stirring snowpath races in which he took part. Here, years later, the grandchildren of old Cedar carry Bud Martin’s colors to victory at Riverdale Fair. Several other characters in the book will be familiar---Uncle John Mason, Billy Randall, Yance and Harko Dan. The new hero i...
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    16,80 €

  • The Buckboard Stranger
    Stephen W. Meader
    The Stranger came by moonlight, riding a western buckboard behind a big dun horse. To Chuck Randall and his friend Barney Burke, this man in the ten-gallon hat and Texas boots was a figure of romance and adventure. In the sleepy New Hampshire village he created a new kind of excitement, and through most of that summer his gambling and horse racing kept the place in a turmoil. H...
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    16,88 €

  • Away To Sea
    Stephen W. Meader
    Here is a first class tale of adventure with vivid characters and accurate setting. One spring day back in 1821, Jim Slater stole out of his father’s farmhouse before daybreak and ran away to Providence to become a sailor. He signed up with the first ship he could find, and it was only when they were six days out at sea that he discovered he was one of the crew of a slave ship ...
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    16,79 €

  • The Cape May Packet
    Stephen W. Meader
    When a fleet of British warships bottled up the Delaware Bay during the War of 1812, Captain Ezra Hand and his son Will were forced to give up the packet run from Cape May, New Jersey, to Philadelphia. Instead, they fitted up their sloop, Fair Molly, as a privateer and began to slip through the blockade to raid enemy shipping, with highly successful results.Will found he privat...
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    16,88 €

  • The Fish Hawk’s Nest
    Stephen W. Meader
    Cape May County, New Jersey, has been for many years a favorite place with Mr. Meader and his family. With its long coastline and its maze of tidal creeks, the County has been a tempting target for smugglers for two hundred years, and what more natural than that Mr. Meader should tell his latest story against that background which he knows so well.Farmers’ sons worked hard in t...
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    16,76 €

  • Red Horse Hill
    Stephen W. Meader
    Red Horse Hill. A story for boys about boys and horses. Bud Martin was an orphan, but he was not quite alone in the world. He had Tug, a bull terrier. Together they picked up a living in the trucking stables where Bud’s father had been a driver. There Bud learned to love horses and how to handle them. On the New Hampshire farm where, after leaving the Boston stables, he found a...
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    16,74 €

  • The Will to Win and Other Stories
    Stephen W. Meader
    The Will To Win And Other Stories. Stephen Meader has been known for years as an expert writer of adventure stories. 'The Black Buccaneer,' 'Red Horse Hill,' and 'Lumberjack' are some of his books which will be read and enjoyed by future generations of young people. 'The Will To Win' is also a book of adventure, but the subject comes closer to the experience of the average boy ...
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    16,48 €

  • Everglades Adventure
    Stephen W. Meader
    Toby Morgan was sixteen when his doctor father moved the family from New Jersey to Fort Dallas---now known as Miami---just after the Civil War. Florida then was an unexplored tropical wilderness that would have delighted the heart of an active boy---and Toby was no exception.Hunting, fishing, and cruising in his canoe through the watery channels of the Everglades, Toby soon cam...
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    16,98 €

  • The Black Buccaneer
    Stephen W. Meader
    The Black Buccaneer. Jeremy’s father helped him drive the sheep into the rude pen on the island off the coast of Maine, and then hurried to return to his colonial clearing on the mainland. 'I sort of hate to leave you here alone,' he said, 'but I’ll be back this time tomorrow.' Before 'this time tomorrow' the boy had been carried away by pirates who had been using the island as...
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    16,59 €

  • BAT, The Story of a Bull Terrier
    Stephen W. Meader
    Bat, The Story Of A Bull Terrier. Stephen Meader’s large and enthusiastic audience can give an extra cheer for his new book, for it has an 'extra added attraction.' It’s the first dog story he has written, and it’s first-rate. It is the dramatic and moving tale of a courageous bull terrier. Bat’s luxurious life as a pet and valuable show dog might not have seemed a good prepara...
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    16,62 €

  • Shadow in the Pines
    Stephen W. Meader
    Shadow In The Pines. This swift-paced story of adventure in World War II, set in the New Jersey pine barrens back of the Fort Dix reservation, is perhaps the finest of Stephen Meader’s long list of fine books for boys. Certainly no one will put this book down till he has finished it. The story tells how Ted, a fifteen-year-old Piney boy, helped the U. S. Army round up a gang of...
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    16,58 €

  • The Sea Snake
    Stephen W. Meader
    The Sea Snake. Barney Cannon, the sixteen-year-old son of a North Carolina fisherman---a German submarine---a Nazi agent posing as a wealthy sportsman and living on the North Carolina coast---a camouflaged German submarine base on an island off the Bahamas. These are the main ingredients of Mr. Meader’s new book for boys, as swift, as breathtaking, and as convincing a story as ...
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    16,71 €


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