Adventure stories for teenagers...

[Stingray]

The Biggles books are still in print as far as I know.
Cracking aircraft stuff with a few Germans thrown in!

 

[Robbi]

any Sven Hassle books

loved them when i was his age.

 

[naefearjustbeer]

Biggles, Hardy Boys, Swallows and Amazons, LOTR and The Hobbit, White Fang, Call of the Wild. Swiss Family Robinson were all books I enjoyed as a youngster and still do to this day.

 

[Tengu]

Funny, I have always found most JRRT fans to be female.

If your going to talk Kipling, go for one of his more obscure (but very enjoyable) ones, `Captain Courageous`

Oh, and dont forget Arthur Conan Doyles `Lost World`

 

[British Red]

Good stuff all - thanks. Might suggest "Rogue Male" too - I'm sure I was around that age when I first read it

 

[Retired Member southey]

How about the dark materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, great read, lots of action and adventure and a cool compass and knife,

 

[locum76]

Catcher in the Rye?

 

[British Red]

Aaah, but then he will turn into an assasin surely?

 

[Kerne]

John Buchan.

'Nuff said.

 

[robin wood]

Another vote for Arthur Ransome our kids loved them. Two of our faves were in your original 3, my side of the mountain was very inspirational for me as kid.

Our teenagers devour books of all sorts. Has he read (sorry) the Harry Potters? Ours are both keen on the Dan Brown books, the Da Vinci Code etc. If into sci fi then the rift war saga by Raymond E Feist are great escapism for teenage boys, starting with "Magician".

I'll ask kids in the morning if you need more suggestions.

 

[launditch1]

How 'bout 'The machine gunners' by Robert Westall?Ive always loved that book(and the tv series)I'd say its an adventure story...

 

[Eric_Methven]

any Sven Hassle books

loved them when i was his age.

Sven Hassel and Leo Kessler. Perfect for a young teenager.

 

[gorilla]

Sherlock Holmes - should be compulsory for all 12 year old lads

 

[Loenja]

Call of the Wild, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings when I was young.

I read some Mark Twain and some Dickens, after that the reading material was Shakespeare or Steinbeck for exam purposes, and the Racing Post for my Father who's eyes were failing him.

Heartily recommend James Clavell's, James Michener's books and the Warlord and Victor comics.

Miene Kampf and the Bunty were more my sister's cup of tea...

great books there

 

[davyowens]

Have any of you read - 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood...now there's an erie tale for hardened canoeists & outdoor folk...If you've not read it...you'll find it online....highly recommended

 

[davyowens]

Also highly recommended is : 'Down the river' by Edward abbey........a totally awsome short story....that describes a huge multi day canoe trip undertaken by the author & his mate down the colorado river thru Glen Canyon before the 'US Reclamation Bureau" dammed it {or Damned it), - flooded it.....naming the resulting lake - Lake Powell - after major John Wesley Powell - the first westerner to navigate & map the colorado river & the vast canyon system around it, homeland of the ancient Navajo & even older Anasazi people - that can now be explored only by expert deep water divers - {an insult to his good name say most historians}.

 

[forestwalker]

Jules Verne

 

[sandbender]

Have any of you read - 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood...now there's an erie tale for hardened canoeists & outdoor folk...If you've not read it...you'll find it online....highly recommended

Oh yes, very creepy indeed, and with a bushcrafty element. If you enjoy Lovecraft, you will probably like this. :yikes:

Here it is.

 

[telwebb]

Any of the Bernard Cornwell sets - especially non-Sharpe. Excellent stuff.

 

[Mesquite]

Not seen Conn Iggulden mentioned yet

He's got a new one just out that sounds great The Dangerous Book of Heroes and there's the classic The Dangerous Book for Boys

But any of his books would be good for a young teenager, The story of Julius Cesaer and Ghengis Khan were both excellent reads