Ballantyne The Brave

By Lucas Botkin — December 01, 2010

Napoleon Bonaparte was a short, young, reckless, proud, and French general. He conquered the Italians and the Austrians, but that wasn't enough for him... [Read more...]

Book Review of By Conduct and Courage [Henty]

By Calico Zak — January 05, 2010

A wandering musician known only by the name of "Gilmore" breezes into Scarcombe with a violin, a small boy, and a ring [Read more...]

Book Review of With Roberts to Pretoria [Henty]

By Calico Zak — October 14, 2009

The Harberton family experiences a terrible misfortune when the father's wealth is [Read more...]

Book Review of Hunted and Harried

By Calico Zak — September 22, 2009

The main characters of our story are Andrew Black, a strong Scotch Covenanter, and a hearty English youth named Will Wallace. But, the heroes of this story [Read more...]

By Lydia Coghlan — September 12, 2009

This is a tale within a tale. An old man living in Noyon-le-Sainte, Picardy found a mysterious trunk in the ruins of his house after a bombardment in [Read more...]

Book Review of Condemned as a Nihilist

By Kaitland Conley — July 18, 2009

Condemned as a Nihilist is the exciting story of Godfrey Bullen. At sixteen years old, the fun is only beginning for this young boy at the [Read more...]

Book Review of The Pioneers & Fast in the Ice

By Joshua Horn — July 10, 2009

The Pioneers. It is the tale of Reuben Guff and his son Lawrence as they travel on voyages of discovery in the northern wilderness [Read more...]

Book Review of In The Heart of The Rockies

By Brandon Smith — June 04, 2009

At the start of the book, Tom's parents are dead, leaving his five sisters and himself to fend for themselves. Tom, restless with the life in England, sails for [Read more...]

Book Review of The Norsemen in the West

By Dakota Grady — April 23, 2009

"The Norsemen in the West" is a tale of a settlement in Vinland under a man named Karlsefin. The story begins in the [Read more...]

Some Thoughts on the Motto "Victory or Death!"

By Joshua Phillips — February 24, 2009

On this day, one hundred seventy three years, one of the great figures in Texas history penned the words [Read more...]

Book Review Of The Island Queen

By John Horn — November 19, 2008

The Island Queen is about two brothers, Dominick and Otto Rigonda, and their sister Pauline. The Rigonda siblings are traveling to meet their father in Java, when their ship sinks in a storm [Read more...]

Book Review of Fighting the Flames

By Matthew Wells — October 15, 2008

Standing in the midst of searing heat and flames licking at the rotting woodwork beneath his feet, a fireman presses forward into the depth of the burning [Read more...]

A Few Thoughts on G.A. Henty

By Joshua Phillips — October 06, 2008

When I first read this, I stopped to really think about what I had just read. This isn't the mad battle cry of some fierce war lord or [Read more...]

Why Girls Should Read Boys' Adventure Literature

By Anna And Elizabeth Botkin — August 11, 2008

People often ask us to name the most important books we've read -- books that have influenced our thinking the most [Read more...]

2008 Essay Contest, 3rd Place: R.M. Ballantyne, A Hero for Heroes in the 21st Century

By Gehrig Nelson — August 05, 2008

For young men and women of the 21st century there are three major attributes lacking: courage, honor, and duty. Young men and young women are not sure what to stand for [Read more...]

2008 Essay Contest, 2nd Place: What Today's Boys and Girls can Learn from the Writings of R. M. Ballantyne

By Joshua Horn — August 05, 2008

Books can have a great effect on our lives. Boys need to read books when they are young that encourage them to be godly men who fear no one but God [Read more...]

2008 Essay Contest 1st Place Winner: The Foundation of Virtue

By Matthew Wells — August 05, 2008

In the vast library of historical fiction for young men and women, there are very few authors who strive to encourage young men to duty, courage, and honor, beyond simply [Read more...]

Book Review of Gascoyne

By Hannah H. — June 17, 2008

Sandy Cove is an English settlement located on a small island in the South Pacific. Amid the grand mountain scenery and rich tropical vegetation [Read more...]

Book Review of The Lonely Island

By Deanna C. — May 21, 2008

The Lonely Island is about some sailors who are under a brutish tyrannical captain who abuses them for no good reason. They decide that they've had enough [Read more...]

Book Review Of Post Haste

By John Horn — May 19, 2008

Post Haste is a tale of the British postal system in the nineteenth century. The reader follows the main character, a post boy by the name of Phillip Mayland... [Read more...]

Ballantyne and Henty: The Gentlemen Adventurers of the World of Boys’ Literature

By Lucas Botkin — May 06, 2008

Our great-great grandfathers on both sides of the Atlantic thrilled to tales of adventure and courage written by R.M. Ballantyne and G.A. Henty [Read more...]

Who Was R.M. Ballantyne?

By Joshua Phillips — May 05, 2008

When Eric Quayle, author of Ballantyne the Brave, penned these words thirty years ago, the works of R.M. Ballantyne were still known to the men of that generation [Read more...]