Stephen W. Meader

Stephen W. Meader

Bibliography:

  • The Black Buccaneer (1920) - Pirates along the Atlantic coast in the 18th century. (Available as an audiobook at Librivox.org)
  • Down the Big River (1924) - The voyage of a frontier family down the Ohio River in pioneer days.
  • Longshanks (1928) - a story of the Mississippi River and how the young hero became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln.
  • Red Horse Hill (1930) - Farm life in New Hampshire and a thrilling country horse race.
  • Away to Sea (1931) - Jim Slater runs away to sea, discovering too late that he had signed up on a slave ship bound for Africa.
  • King of the Hills (1933) - The story of Old Scarback, a famous stag, and a boy who helped arrest a gang of deer jackers.
  • Lumberjack (1934) - Dan earns the money for college by becoming a lumberjack in the New Hampshire woods.
  • The Will to Win and Other Stories (1936) - a collection of sports stories.
  • Trap Lines North (1936)
  • Who Rides in the Dark? (1937) - Dan Drew, stableboy in a New Hampshire country inn in 1827, helps in the arrest of a band of highwaymen.
  • T-Model Tommy (1938) - How Tom Ballard built up his own trucking business.
  • Boy with a Pack (1939) - Adventures of a boy who went to Ohio country in 1837. (Newbery Honor)
  • Bat, the Story of a Bull Terrier (1939)
  • Clear for Action! (1940) - A Maine boy's adventures as an impressed seaman aboard a British ship in the War of 1812.
  • Blueberry Mountain (1941) - Two boys start a blueberry farm in the Pocono mountains and develop it into a thriving business.
  • Shadow in the Pines (1942) - A fifteen-year-old New Jersey boy helps to capture a Nazi spy ring that threatens Fort Dix.
  • The Sea Snake (1943) – A teenager from the Outer Banks of North Carolina finds himself captured and a prisoner in a German submarine.
  • The Long Trains Roll (1944) - a young railroad worker helps the FBI deal with saboteurs.
  • Skippy's Family (1945) - The true story of Skippy, a mongrel dog who for 17 years was a member of the Meader family.
  • Jonathan Goes West (1946) - The pageantry of America's westward movement is caught in this exciting story of an adventurous journey from Maine to Illinois in 1845.
  • Behind the Ranges (1947) - Dick Randolph discovers a strange sort of human being in the unexplored loveliness of the Olympic Mountains of our Northwest.
  • River of the Wolves (1948) - As an Indian captive during the French and Indian War, young Dave Foster learns to face the dangers and hardships of life in the Canadian wilderness.
  • Cedar's Boy (1949) - a vivid, swift-moving story of the harness races at the Riverdale Fair. Authentic Americana, this has some of the same characters as Red Horse Hill.
  • Whaler 'Round the Horn (1950) - Rodney Glenn ships out of New Bedford on a memorable whaling voyage that leads him to the magic islands of Hawaii.
  • Bulldozer (1951) - The fascination of modern machinery is combined with much action in this story of a Maine boy who starts a contracting business with a reconditioned bulldozer.
  • The Fish Hawk's Nest (1952) - Cape May New Jersey is the setting of this dramatic tale of smuggling in the 1880s.
  • Sparkplug of the Hornets (1953) - an exciting story of a small high school's basketball team and its uphill fight fr the state championship.
  • The Buckboard Stranger (1954) - a smooth-talking Texas stranger rolls into a small New England mill town of the early 1900s and causes a summer of excitement for Chuck and Barney. A masterful tale of suspense.
  • Guns for the Saratoga (1955) - Gideon Jones adventures in the newly created US Navy give an exciting picture of life on the sloop-of-war Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.
  • Sabre Pilot (1956) - The action-packed story of Kirk Owen who enlists in the US Air Force and becomes a jet fighter pilot in the Korean War.
  • Everglades Adventure (1957) - an absorbing story of the Florida Everglades in the 1870s, in which Toby Morgan's chance to act as a guide for a naturalist gives new meaning to his explorations.
  • The Commodore's Cup (1958) - an action-filled story in which young Luke Cramer crews in small-boat sailing races off the New Jersey coast and, by luck and hard work, gets a Comet Class boat of his own.
  • Wild Pony Island (1959) - a city boy is transplanted to North Carolina's Okracoke island, noted for its wild ponies, and finds a new and challenging way of life.
  • Buffalo And Beaver (1960) - a year spent trapping in the Rocky Mountain wilderness, before the white settlers came, gave Jeff Barlow a sense of our country's natural beauty and of history in the making.
  • Snow on Blueberry Mountain (1961)
  • Phantom of the Blockade (1962)
  • The Muddy Road to Glory (1963)
  • Stranger on Big Hickory (1964)
  • A Blow for Liberty (1965)
  • Topsail Island Treasure (1966) - Combining an interest in bird watching with his doctor's orders to exercise his once-paralyzed leg, Don Douglas finds himself involved in the mystery surrounding a hunt for buried treasure along the New Jersey coast.
  • Keep 'Em Rolling (1967)
  • Lonesome End (1968) - A shy young cowboy finds a place for himself on the high school football team in his western Kansas town.
  • The Cape May Packet (1969)
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Bat, the Story of a Bull-Terrier
G&D Famous Dog Stories
by Stephen W. Meader, illustrated by Edward Shenton
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Black Buccaneer
Dover Evergreen Classics
by Stephen W. Meader
from Dover Publications
for 3rd-8th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$5.09
Boy with a Pack
by Stephen W. Meader, illustrated by Edward Shenton
from Harcourt, Brace & Company
for 6th-10th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Clear for Action!
by Stephen W. Meader
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Cleared for Action!
by Stephen W. Meader
from Bethlehem Books
Nautical Fiction for 5th-8th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Down the Big River
Purple House Living History Library
by Stephen W. Meader, illustrated by Edward Shenton
from Purple House Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$9.34