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adventure novel

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adventure novel

Genre of prose fiction dealing with ventures and enterprises in which hazard or risk is incurred, often unexpectedly.

US authors specializing in adventure fiction include Tom Clancy, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Wilbur Smith, and Mark Twain, while English writer C S Forester is also a successful adventure writer.
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Write those letters on the appropriate lines below to discover the name of a classic adventure novel.
Code name: adventure by Junior Scholastic
Set in nineteenth century Africa, King Solomon's Mines by Sir Henry Rider Haggard is an adventure novel about an expedition searching for the legendary lost mines of King Solomon.
King Solomon's Mines by The Bookwatch
Worlds Apart is a thoroughly entertaining and enthusiastically recommended adventure novel for young readers ages 10 and older that author Kathleen Karr has based on records from an actual colony and weaves a tale filled with marauding Spaniards, warring tribes, and colonial family conflict.
Worlds Apart by Children's Bookwatch
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