Written for Young Adults

Parental GuidanceThe list below is of those books which are believed to have been written specifically for young adults. It includes books from all genres on this site.

Many other books will often be suitable but they were not specifically written for young adults.

'Engage the Enemy Closely'
'Gainst the Might of Spain: A story of the days of the Great Armada
'Operations Successfully Executed'
A Blow for Liberty
A Book of Sea Stories
A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine
A Cruise with Paul Jones: a story of naval warfare in 1778
A Lad of Grit: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times
A Little Ship
A Midshipman of the Fleet
A Sailor of Napoleon
A Shanghai Adventure
A Sub of the R. N. R.: A story of the Great War
A Sub. and a Submarine: The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War
A Voyage Round the World
A Watch-dog of the North Sea: A naval story of the Great War
Across the Spanish Main
Action Starboard
Adam MacAdam, Naval Cadet
Adventures In Southern Seas, or A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Afloat in Freedom’s Cause: The Story of Two Boys in the War of 1812
Alan Carr in Command
Alan Carr in the Arctic
Alan Carr in the Near East
All Hands to the Boats
Amos Dunkel, Oarsman
An Old-Time Yarn
Anchor's Aweigh: The Story of David Glasgow Farragut
Andy-All-Alone
At Close Grips
At the Siege of Havana: The Experience of Three Boys Serving Under Israel Putnam in 1762
Away to Sea
Baffling The Blockade
Battle Fleet
Battles with the Sea
Berenger to the Rescue
Berenger's Toughest Case
Bill Berenger wins Command
Bill Berenger's First Case
Billy Budd
Black Ivory
Black Ivory
Blackadder: A Tale of the Days of Nelson and Trafalgar
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
Bob Strickland's Log
Bullen of the 'Brigadier'
By Luck and by Pluck
Cadet Alan Carr
Captain Cain
Captain Flick

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