Project Gutenberg 2004-10-30 Public domain in the USA. 53 Barbour, Ralph Henry 1870 1944 Barbour, R. H. (Ralph Henry) Caswell, Edward C. 1879 1963 Caswell, E. C. (Edward C.) The Adventure Club Afloat Reading ease score: 82.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Kathryn Lybarger, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Adventure Club Afloat" by Ralph Henry Barbour is a novel written during the early 20th century. The book revolves around a group of young boys from Dexter Academy who long for excitement and adventure during their summer break. The main characters, Perry Bush, Steve Chapman, and Joe Ingersoll, seek to escape their mundane lives by forming the Adventure Club and embarking on a sailing trip filled with aspirations of thrilling experiences. The opening of the novel introduces the characters during a summer evening as they bemoan the dullness of their impending vacation. They engage in a lively discussion about their desires for adventure, leading to Perry's idea of breaking free from their ordinary lives. As they brainstorm possibilities, Steve proposes the idea of using his father's cruiser for an adventurous voyage on the water. The excitement in the air grows as they plan their expedition, title their group the Adventure Club, and begin rallying support from their friends to join them in their quest for a summer filled with daring experiences. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Sea stories Sailing -- Juvenile fiction New England -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Children's Book Series Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 390961 387789 2024-10-06T10:16:21.478374 2023-10-06T10:58:12.564501 text/html text/html 403448 2020-12-18T13:47:11 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 658330 2020-12-18T13:47:11 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 775820 2024-10-06T10:16:30.359347 application/epub+zip 781258 2024-10-06T10:16:24.748348 application/epub+zip 213734 2024-10-06T10:16:23.411381 application/epub+zip 958341 2024-10-06T10:16:34.678379 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 925109 2024-10-06T10:16:29.384341 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 341624 2022-09-07T13:26:08.598029 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 362860 362759 2024-10-06T10:16:20.054394 2023-10-06T10:58:11.540504 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 362592 2020-12-18T13:47:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 138878 2020-12-18T13:47:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20521 2024-10-06T10:16:34.860315 application/rdf+xml 12399 2024-10-06T10:16:23.972385 image/jpeg 3335 2024-10-06T10:16:23.692375 image/jpeg 748961 2024-10-06T10:16:21.533366 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia