Stephen W. Meader

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1656
  • Latest Book:
    January 2022
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Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • Snow On Blueberry Mountain

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  • Boy with a Pack

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    Seventeen-year-old Bill Crawford refused to be licked by the hard times of 1837. Putting every cent he owned into a tin trunk full of Yankee notions, he set out afoot from New Hampshire for the Ohio country. His adventures on the road, as he crossed ...

  • Blueberry Mountain

  • Bulldozer

  • King Of The Hills

    Stephen Meader is a master of plot and character; he also knows how to make the countryside live and breathe. This tale of New Hampshire mountains is full of magic for any boy who loves the woods.Breck Townsend went to New Hampshire in the hunting se...

  • Trap Lines North

  • Jonathan Goes West

  • Lumberjack

    This is the story of Dan Garland's winter working with a lumber crew in New Hampshire. He developed into a real lumberjack and had plenty of adventures, fighting a forest fire and tracking down the man who started it....

  • Sabre Pilot

    Seventeen-year-old Kirk Owen turns from hot-rod racing to enlist in the Air Force, just as the Korean fighting starts. At A&E school in Texas, Kirk begins to realize that he'd give anything for a chance to become a pilot. With a lot of extra study, h...



  • The Long Trains Roll

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    Not only an adventure story packed with thrills, this is also a book about railroads that will appeal to all railroad fans.Through Calico Gap, one of the passes to the West through the Appalachian wall, runs a four-track rail artery, an important mil...

  • Phantom Of The Blockade

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    Life aboard a Confederate blockade runner was dangerous, exciting, and if one survived it, profitable. To Anse O'Neal, a seventeen-year-old from Oracoke Island off North Carolina, it meant even more. It was gratifying to know that the rifles, powder,...

  • BAT, The Story of a Bull Terrier

    Bat, The Story Of A Bull Terrier. Stephen Meader's large and enthusiastic audience can give an extra cheer for his new book, for it has an extra added attraction. It's the first dog story he has written, and it's first-rate. It is the dramatic and mo...

  • Lonesome End

    Lonesome End. Tod Ross had never gone out for football---the chores on his father's ranch always filled his spare time---but when the coach convinced him that Prairie High's team badly needed someone at right end, he decided to try for it. Tod had no...

  • Red Horse Hill

    Red Horse Hill. A story for boys about boys and horses. Bud Martin was an orphan, but he was not quite alone in the world. He had Tug, a bull terrier. Together they picked up a living in the trucking stables where Bud's father had been a driver. Ther...

  • The Sea Snake

    The Sea Snake. Barney Cannon, the sixteen-year-old son of a North Carolina fisherman---a German submarine---a Nazi agent posing as a wealthy sportsman and living on the North Carolina coast---a camouflaged German submarine base on an island off the B...

  • Topsail Island Treasure

    Topsail Island Treasure. For much of the year, Don Douglas had Topsail Island State Park pretty much to himself because his father was its superintendent. On this wild, unspoiled stretch of beach and dune along the New Jersey coast, Don combined his ...

  • Whaler 'Round the Horn

    Whaler 'Round The Horn. Rodney Glenn, like many other New England boys a hundred years ago, had set his heart on being a whaler. When the chance came, he shipped out of New Bedford on the Pelican, under Captain Jonas Beale. Captain Beale had the repu...

  • The Will to Win and Other Stories

    The Will To Win And Other Stories. Stephen Meader has been known for years as an expert writer of adventure stories. The Black Buccaneer, Red Horse Hill, and Lumberjack are some of his books which will be read and enjoyed by future generations of you...

  • Shadow in the Pines

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    Shadow In The Pines. This swift-paced story of adventure in World War II, set in the New Jersey pine barrens back of the Fort Dix reservation, is perhaps the finest of Stephen Meader's long list of fine books for boys. Certainly no one will put this ...



  • Stranger on Big Hickory

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    Stranger On Big Hickory. When Skip Rollins decided to take photographs of the smaller wild animals he might find near his Pennsylvania home for his 4-H Club project, he did not foresee that some larger and more dangerous animal live would get within ...

  • Wild Pony Island

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    Wild Pony Island. When Rick Landon and his family moved from a crowded big-city tenement district to a remote island off the North Carolina coast, he found himself in a strange new world. The tiny village of Ocracoke was different from anything Rick ...

  • A Blow For Liberty

  • The Cape May Packet

  • Cedar's Boy

  • Commodore's Cup

    To Luke Cramer, sailing meant everything, and to have a Comet Class boat of his very own was something he had long dreamed about. Meanwhile, the next best thing was crewing for Bruce Canning whenever there was a race.It seemed, then, like a miracle t...

  • The Fish Hawk's Nest

    Cape May County, New Jersey, has been for many years a favorite place with Mr. Meader and his family. With its long coastline and its maze of tidal creeks, the County has been a tempting target for smugglers for two hundred years, and what more natur...

  • Guns For The Saratoga

  • Keep 'Em Rolling

    Sixteen-year-old Dave Marsh and his family, with their sturdy team of oxen, were part of a wagon train that made the long, dangerous journey to Oregon in the 1840's. Fording swollen rivers, crossing trackless plains, and struggling over forbidding mo...

  • Longshanks

    On a night in April, 1828, Tad Hopkins, traveling on a river steamboat to join his father in New Orleans, was robbed and thrown overboard by a famous outlaw. He managed to swim to a flatboat moored to the bank and spent the rest of the night there. W...



  • The Muddy Road To Glory

    Sixteen-year-old Ben Everett, working on the family farm near Skowhegan, Maine, had been anxious to enlist ever since President Lincoln had first called for volunteers. His chance came unexpectedly when a recruiting sergeant arrived in the village, a...

  • River Of The Wolves

    The summer that young Dave Foster went to work on his uncle's farm in the Maine wilderness, the French were stirring up the Indians to attack colonial settlers. But Uncle Jonathan laughed at the possibility of an Indian attack on their settlement. Hi...

  • Sparkplug Of The Hornets

    Though Peewee Carson had starred on a midget league team in the city, he was really too small to make the high school basketball team in the upstate town to which he and his family had just moved. However, the school enrollment was not large and beca...

  • Who Rides In The Dark?

    This is a tale of old stagecoach days in New Hampshire, of country inns which were headquarters for the freight wagons and passenger coaches and of highwaymen in ambush on the lonely mountain roads.Daniel Drew, fifteen years old, came to the Fox and ...

  • The Buckboard Stranger

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  • Everglades Adventure

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    Toby Morgan was sixteen when his doctor father moved the family from New Jersey to Fort Dallas---now known as Miami---just after the Civil War. Florida then was an unexplored tropical wilderness that would have delighted the heart of an active boy---...

  • Down the Big River

    A story of the days when the Ohio Valley was being settled, and Big Jim Wilson and his gang had their stronghold in Mammoth Cave. Young Tom Lockwood and his parents started from Philadelphia to take up land in Missouri. But they fell into the hands o...

  • Away To Sea

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    Here is a first class tale of adventure with vivid characters and accurate setting. One spring day back in 1821, Jim Slater stole out of his father's farmhouse before daybreak and ran away to Providence to become a sailor. He signed up with the first...

  • Behind The Ranges

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    The wild loveliness of an uninhabited valley high in the Olympic Mountains was hardly disturbed when Dick and his father, with the help of a Forest Ranger, pitched their camp there. Dr. Randolph, a botanist, planned to make a collection of the flora ...

  • The Black Buccaneer

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    In 1718, long before the turbulent years of the American Revolution, life on a Maine sheep farm is a quiet affair. But unbeknownst to 14-year-old Jeremy Swan, his island home is ripe for plundering by sea raiders, who swoop down and drag him away. On...



  • Buffalo and Beaver

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    Young Jeff Barlow, who loved to draw and paint, was sixteen when he left his uncle's Illinois farm and went with his father to spend the winter in the Rocky Mountain wilderness. Few white men in 1827 had ever been in this remote territory, but while ...

  • Clear For Action!

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  • The Voyage Of The Javelin

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen W. Meader has published 42 books.

Stephen W. Meader does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Down the Big River, was published in January 2022.

The first book by Stephen W. Meader, Snow On Blueberry Mountain, was published in January 1656.

No. Stephen W. Meader does not write books in series.
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