Swallows and Amazons
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Swallows and Amazons volume 1
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John, his brother Roger, and his sisters Susan and Titty, spend the summer at Holly Howe farm exploring the lake on the sailboat Swallow
2) Swallowdale
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Swallows and Amazons volume 2
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A group of English children share a summer adventure, featuring a shipwreck, a secret valley and cave, a thrilling mountain hike, and a stickler aunt.
On summer holiday, the Swallows (John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker) and the Amazons (Nancy and Peggy Blackett) meet up on Wild Cat Island. Unfortunately, though, the Amazons have a problem: their Great Aunt Maria has come to visit and she demands that the Amazon pirates act like "young ladies." Things...
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Swallows and Amazons volume 3
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Six intrepid brothers and sisters crew out on the high seas where they brave every imaginable danger.
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Swallows and Amazons volume 4
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A group of English children go to a farm for the Christmas holidays and become Arctic explorers
5) Coot Club
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Swallows and Amazons volume 5
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Dorothy and Dick have an adventure in the English countryside, involving frantic chases, calamitous boat collisions, and the attempts of their friends to protect nesting birds from rude holiday boaters.
6) Pigeon Post
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Swallows and Amazons volume 6
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Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series has stood the test of time. Ransome is not only a great storyteller, writing from first-hand experience, but each story celebrates eternally valuable qualities of practical knowledge, independence, and initiative. The twelve books are for children or grownups-anyone captivated by a world of sailing, adventure, and imagination.
The crew's on holiday for their sixth adventure, and they turn their energies...
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Swallows and Amazons volume 7
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Four siblings go on an accidental adventure when they're swept across the sea-all the way to Holland-in this entry from the classic children's series.
The Swallows only meant to sail within an estuary on a borrowed boat. They didn't mean to get stranded in the fog, lose their anchor in a storm, and be driven out into the North Sea. John is nearly swept overboard, their ship almost capsizes-and Susan really regrets not doing as their mother asked....
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Secret water , Swallows and Amazons volume 8
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The big six , Swallows and Amazons volume 9
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Missee Lee: the Swallows and Amazons in the China Seas , Swallows and Amazons volume 10
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Swallows and Amazons volume 11
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As the classic series continues, an unexpected visitor forces a group of children to go to great lengths to enjoy a summer of fun and adventure.
The Amazons' mother (doubtless suffering from exhaustion) has gone off sailing in the North Sea with Captain Flint on a rest cure, but she has allowed her two daughters to stay on the lakeshore with their trusty cook. She's also permitted their two old friends, Dick and Dorothea Callum, to come up for a...
12) Great Northern?
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Swallows and Amazons volume 12
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As this classic series continues, adventuring children off the western coast of Scotland spot a strange bird and soon land themselves in danger.
While on a sailing cruise with Cap. Flint exploring in the Outer Hebrides, the Swallows, Amazons, and the Ds spot a mysterious bird nesting on an island in a loch. Could it be a great northern diver, never known to nest in the British Isles? They tell their discovery to a local expert who secretly collects...