R.M. Ballantyne

The Coral Island (2015)

Found on the thrift shop bookshelf, this is a great adventure book for boys, written in Scotland in 1858. It’s a mix between Robinson Crusoe and Swiss Family Robinson. Three teenage boys are marooned on a South Pacific island where they encounter sharks, storms, pirates, and cannibals. 12-year-o...

Over the Rocky Mountains and Wandering Will in the Land of the Red Skins (2004)