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BOOKS OF COURAGE - BOOKS OF HIGH ADVENTURE
For grades 4 to 8
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FRIGHTFUL'S MOUNTAIN by Jean Craighead George As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
			NORY RYAN'S SONG by Patricia Reilly Giff When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
STOWAWAY by Karen Hesse A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
			EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE by Polly Horvath Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
CASTAWAYS OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN by Brian Jacques In 1620, a boy and his dog are rescued from the doomed ship, Flying Dutchman, by an angel who guides them in traveling the world, eternally helping those in great need.
			EARTHQUAKE TERROR by Peg Kehret When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
THE BUCCANEERS by Iain Lawrence In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed
			DESTINATION GOLD! by Julie Lawson When 16 year old Ned Turner sets off for gold fields of the Klondike in 1897, he's confident that he'll soon be back in Victoria with enough gold to pay off his widowed mother's debts and make the family rich.
THE QUICKSAND PONY by Alison Lester After her pony Bella, trapped in quicksand, is rescued by a mysterious unseen person, ten-year-old Biddy follows the trail into the Australian bush and discovers the solution to a disappearance that happened years ago.
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