My One Hundred Adventures
My One Hundred Adventures Series
Adventures.
Jane is twelve years old, and she is ready for them. She yearns to move beyond the world of her younger siblings and single mother and their cozy house by the sea, and to step into the "know-not-what"—the place where your heart buzzes with excitement and things happen.
And over the summer, whether she looks for them or not, adventures keep finding Jane. There's the thrilling solo ride in a hijacked hot-air balloon; the out-of-the-blue appearances of a slew of possible fathers; a weird new friendship with Nellie Phipps, preacher and wannabe psychic; the accidental crime Jane may have committed involving a Bible and a baby named Gourd; and, finally, her discovery of the truth that lies at the heart of all great adventures: that it's not what happens to you that matters, but what you learn about yourself.
National Book Award and Newberry Honor winner Polly Horvath has written her richest, most spirited book yet, filled with characters that readers will never forget.
Booklist Editors' Choice (2008); Kirkus Reviews Best Book Selection (2008); School Library Journal Best Book Selection (2008); Amazon Best Book Selection (2008); New York Public Library List of 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing (2008); National Parenting Publications Awards - NAPPA (2008); Parent's Choice Gold Award (2008); Junior Library Guild Selection (2008); The Sheila Egoff Prize for Children's Literature (2009); Capitol Choice Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens (2009); NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People - Contemporary Concerns (2009)
About the My One Hundred Adventures Series
Books in series order
- 1.My One Hundred Adventures(2008)
- 2.Northward to the Moon(2010)
Reading age: 9+ years
This series should be read in order.
You can hear the waves crash more loudly when it is dark. You can smell the sharper smells of the sea. Maybe the wind will take us this time, I think, as a gust shakes the foundations of the house. Maybe we will be blown apart to the many corners of the earth, but then I feel a sharp stab of something, excitement maybe. It is the prospect of adventures to be had.
Jane is 12 years old, and she is ready for adventures, to move beyond the world of her siblings and single mother and their house by the sea, and step into the “know-not what.” And, over the summer, adventures do seem to find Jane, whether it’s a thrilling ride in a hot-air balloon, the appearances of a slew of possible fathers, or a weird new friendship with a preacher and psychic wannabe. Most important, there’s Jane’s discovery of what lies at the heart of all great adventures: that it’s not what happens to you that matters, but what you learn about yourself.