Victor Appleton

Titles in Young Readers category:

• Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers

  "Well, Tom Swift, I don't believe you will make any mistake if you buy that diamond," said the jeweler to a young man who was inspecting a tray of pins, set with the sparkling stones. "It is of the first water, and without a flaw."

• Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters

  "Impossible, Ned! It can't be as much as that!"

• Tom Swift And His Aerial Warship

  "What's the matter, Tom? You look rather blue!"

• Tom Swift And His Air Glider

  "Well, Ned, are you ready?"

• Tom Swift and His Air Scout    

  "Oh Tom, is it really safe?"

• Tom Swift and His Airship

  "Are you all ready, Tom?"

• Tom Swift And His Big Tunnel

  Tom Swift, seated in his laboratory engaged in trying to solve a puzzling question that had arisen over one of his inventions, was startled by a loud knock on the door. So emphatic, in fact, was the summons that the door trembled, and Tom started to his feet in some alarm.

• Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive

  "An electric locomotive that can make two miles a minute over a properly ballasted roadbed might not be an impossibility," said Mr. Barton Swift ruminatively. "It is one of those things that are coming," and he flashed his son, Tom Swift, a knowing smile. It had been a topic of conversation bet ...

• Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle

  "Have you anything special to do to-night, Ned?" asked Tom Swift, the well-known inventor, as he paused in front of his chum's window, in the Shopton National Bank.

• Tom Swift And His Electric Runabout

  "Father," exclaimed Tom Swift, looking up from a paper he was reading, "I think I can win that prize!"

• Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon

  "Now, see here, Mr. Swift, you may think it all a sort of dream, and imagine that I don't know what I'm talking about; but I do! If you'll consent to finance this expedition to the extent of, say, ten thousand dollars, I'll practically guarantee to give you back five times that sum.

• Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight

  "Tom, did you know Andy Foger was back in town?"

• Tom Swift And His Motor-Boat

  "Where are you going, Tom?" asked Mr. Barton Swift of his son as the young man was slowly pushing his motor-cycle out of the yard toward the country road. "You look as though you had some object in view."

• Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle    

  "That's the way to do it! Whoop her up, Andy! Shove the spark lever over, and turn on more gasolene! We'll make a record this trip."

• Tom Swift And His Photo Telephone

  "Tom, I don't believe it can be done!"

• Tom Swift And His Sky Racer

  "Is this Tom Swift, the inventor of several airships?"

• Tom Swift And His Submarine Boat

  There was a rushing, whizzing, throbbing noise in the air. A great body, like that of some immense bird, sailed along, casting a grotesque shadow on the ground below. An elderly man, who Was seated on the porch of a large house, started to his feet in alarm.

• Tom Swift And His Undersea Search

  "Tom, this is certainly wonderful reading! Over a hundred million dollars' worth of silver at the bottom of the ocean! More than two hundred million dollars in gold! To say nothing of fifty millions in copper, ten millions in--"

• Tom Swift And His War Tank    

  Ceasing his restless walk up and down the room, Tom Swift strode to the window and gazed across the field toward the many buildings, where machines were turning out the products evolved from the brains of his father and himself. There was a worried look on the face of the young inventor, and he ...

• Tom Swift and his Wireless Message

  Tom Swift stepped from the door of the machine shop, where he was at work making some adjustments to the motor of his airship, and glanced down the road. He saw a cloud of dust, which effectually concealed whatever was causing it.

• Tom Swift And His Wizard Camera

  "Some one to see you, Mr. Tom."

• Tom Swift in Captivity

  Tom Swift closed the book of adventures he had been reading, tossed it on the table, and got up. Then he yawned.

• Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice

  "Well, Massa Tom, am yo' gwine out in yo' flyin' machine ag'in to- day?"

• Tom Swift in the City of Gold

  "Letter for you, Tom Swift."

• Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

  Tom Swift, who had been slowly looking through the pages of a magazine, in the contents of which he seemed to be deeply interested, turned the final folio, ruffled the sheets back again to look at a certain map and drawing, and then, slapping the book down on a table before him, with a noise no ...