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Adventure Stories for Boys

From the November 11, 2007 Pigeon Post essay of the same name.
So, below are a series of boys adventures stories which tend to appeal much more to boys than to girls and which usually have many of the above mentioned traits. I omit, and it is a terrifically long list, those adventure stories which appeal to both sexes (The Chronicles of Narnia, Hatchet, etc.)
What books would you suggest?

This book list is divided into two sections:
(1) Books for Idependent Readers
(2) Books for Young Adults

The list begins below with books for Independent Readers, but you can use the following link to skip directly to books for Young Adults.
Go to books for Young Adults


Independent Reader

Crispin: the Cross of Lead by Avi
High Citadel by Desmond Bagley
The Vivero Letter by Desmond Bagley
Adrift by Steve Callahan
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
The Call of the Wild by Jack London


Young Adult

The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

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