Girl Adventures
The Xanadu Adventure
Alexander, Llloyd
Vesper Holly's adventures continue as she, her guardians, and their friends journey to Asia Minor in search of the ancient city of Troy, but fall into the trap of an old enemy.
Pirates!: the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates
Rees, Celia
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
Piratica: being a daring tale of a singular girl’s adventure upon the high seas
Lee. Tanith
A bump on the head restores Art's memories of her mother and the exciting life they led, so the sixteen-year-old leaves school, and seeks out the pirates who were her family before her mother's death, and leads them back to adventure on the high seas.
Girl in blue
Rinaldi, Ann
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy.
Rowan Hood, outlaw girl of Sherwood Forest
Springer, Nancy
In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.
Bloody Jack: being an account of the curious adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy
Meyer, L.A.
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Daughter of the Wind
Cadnum, Michael
In medieval times as various groups of Vikings fight for supremacy of the northern lands and waters, Hallgerd, Gauk, and Hego, three young people from the quiet coastal village of Spjothof, find their fates intertwined as a series of events take them into danger far from home.
Away to the goldfields!
Derby, Pat
Yearning for adventure and tired of farm life in New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Mary Margaret Malarkey journeys to California in 1848 to find her father who arrived earlier to make his fortune in the goldfields.
Ruby in the Smoke
Pullman, Phillip
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
Boston Jane: An Adventure
Holm, Jennifer L.
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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