THE ADVENTURE BOOKS
The adventure genre is a narration of exceptional facts, out of the ordinary, which contain in themselves a good dose of danger and mystery.
According to the traditional development of this kind of story, at the start of the story there is an unexpected event that complicates the initial situation and starts a series of adventures, which constitute their center of interest in history.
These adventures are full of twists, unexpected and unpredictable events that make the narrative compelling until the moment of its conclusion; in this way, the reader is emotionally involved in the events and actions of the characters, living with them all the sensations they experienced.
It is only at the moment of the final conclusion that the tension, gradually increased over the course of the narrative and reached the maximum level just before the finale, finally relaxes.
Treasure Island
When Robert Louis Stevenson's stepson finished painting the map of a treasure island, he said: How nice it would be a book that told the story of this island! His stepfather satisfied him, writing Treasure Island. could, a book born like this, not become the most classic and loved among children's books?
The magical summer of the Penderwick sisters
Rosalind the rational, Skye the tomboy, Jane the aspiring writer and Batty the shy, who never leaves the house without her wings. The Penderwick sisters expected a boring holiday in the countryside ... But in Arundel nothing is as they imagined: enchanted gardens, attics full of treasures, new friends and secret loves ... for all of them it will be an unforgettable summer.
The boy and the storm
Bruno is thirteen and lives with his family at the foot of the mountain. The mountain can be tough. Your father knows that when he was a forest ranger up there he risked his life. Since returning home, after being in a coma for five long years, Bruno hardly recognizes him, and fears him a little. But above all, admire him.
Falling in love with April
Tony recently moved with his mother to a village on the river after his parents separated. He is poor, alone and with a precarious future ahead of him. April is beautiful and deaf. He loves nature, the wind, the river and his swans. Everyone in town, however, thinks that she is a poor retarder of poor morality. Tony is locked in an obstinate mutism. April is a prisoner of her world of silence.
The Bomb
It is the summer of 1962 and Scott, eleven years old, enjoys the last few remnants of his holiday playing football and combining some stunt with friends. But in the midst of the Cold War, the threat of the atomic bomb also looms over their carefree days.
The inventor of dreams
A child daydreams and imagines making the whole family disappear, partly out of boredom and partly out of spite, with an imaginary Svanilina Pomade; or he dreams of being able to remove the fur from the house cat, to let its feline soul come out and to take its place, living its life for a few days, only apparently sleepy; or dream that his sister's dolls come alive and attack him to drive him out of his room...
Black Earth
Stepan Ciakarov, exiled by the Tsar for a crime he did not commit, once acclaimed as a prodigy of music, is forced to live far from his homeland and his great love.
How to survive the first grade
What's after elementary school? The terrible discovery that school does not end there, that after elementary school there are middle schools, for Ivan it is a bolt from the blue. And so the boy, after the summer, finds himself in the new school having to face a pack of ferocious "male teachers" every day. He also has to divide the desk with the sticky core and keep up with the most embarrassing bully of the whole school who, coincidentally, is right in his class.
80 Miles
Billy looks at the locomotive stationary on the tracks. She is beautiful, tall and mighty like a queen. The locomotive calls him and Billy knows that one day, one day not too far away, he will mount that big iron horse and throw it on the prairie.
Il cacciatore di aquiloni
Time is said to heal every wound. But, for Amir, the past is a long-clawed beast, ready to chase it and catch it when it least expects it. Many years have passed since the day when the life of his friend Hassan - the doll-faced boy, the kite hunter - changed forever in an alley in Kabul. That day, Amir committed a terrible guilt.
Ho, freedom
Tommy, 11, is a slave, together with his family, on a cotton plantation, but dreams of being able to be a day off. After meeting Peg Leg Joe, a strange subject who introduces him to the music of spirituals and the ideals of freedom, he escapes following Peg Leg Joe and his banjo, along what is called the Underground Railroad. Along the road that leads to freedom, between dangers and adventures, little Tommy will learn to play the banjo and sing the spirituals. He will in turn become a guide and dedicate his life to saving the slaves of the South.
Boom
Even though he is a lively boy, Jim is not very bright at school: someone - but it is only his sister - says that he even runs the risk of ending up in an institution for retarded children. On the other hand, it wouldn't be bad to know what teachers think of him. Luckily his friend Charlie has a really bright idea: just hide a walkie-talkie in the teachers' room!
If the world burns
Two boys who come from very different families, a student of the bourgeoisie and the son of a farmer, united by an identical destiny: taken away from home, torn from the normalcy of their life as teenagers to become young soldiers in the guerrilla and take part in one of the many civil wars that torment Africa. The vicissitudes of the kids intertwine, showing all the ferocity of a life reduced to mere survival and the effort, in the end, to return to normal life.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
He likes to swim in the river, walk barefoot, pirate, skip school, seek treasure. He likes to get into trouble and find a way out. The official rascal of children's literature told through the key episodes of his adventures on the banks of the Mississippi: he laughs, explores, ventures, discovers, trembles with him and his companions, the tender Becky and the reckless Huck Finn.
Robinson Crusoe
The first and most famous of Daniel Defoe's novels was "Robinson Crusoe", which was published in 1719, when the author was almost 60 years old, and was very successful. History teaches how human beings are able to overcome all difficulties with commitment, patience and ingenuity and at the same time reveals their need to communicate and be part of society.
The band of worms
Some townspeople find a reason to grow in the Worm band and take refuge in the basement to tell their dreams. In the mystery of the big house, are the adventures of the Band intertwined with those of a teacher of Spanish origin?
Treasure hunters
The Kidd brothers (Tommy, 17, Storm, 14, and the twins Bickford and Rebecca of 12) grew up immersing themselves in the shipwrecks and underwater caves of the entire planet, helping their famous parents to recover from the bottom of the ocean all kinds of treasures from the Viking swords to the golden doubloons of the Spanish conquistadors. But when mom and dad disappear during the umpteenth adventure, the boys are suddenly catapulted into the most important treasure hunt of their lives. They will have to help each other to defeat a group of brutal pirates and evade the pursuit of a treacherous rival treasure hunter, all trying to decipher the mysterious traces that hide what really happened to their parents.
The boys of the via Pàl
In late 19th century Budapest, a group of boys found themselves playing in a fenced field in the courtyard of a sawmill. For them, the field is everything, it is the place where they make friends and where a thousand adventures live. When their rivals, the infamous Red Shirts, try to chase them from there to take over the field, the boys of the street Pál close the ranks and prepare to battle.