the newly created US Navy give an exciting picture of life on the sloop-of-war Saratoga during the Revolutionary War. Sabre Pilot (1956) - The action-packed story of Kirk Owen who enlists in the US Air Force and becomes a jet fighter pilot in the Korean War. Everglades Adventure (1957) - an absorbing story of the Florida Everglades in the 1870s, in which Toby Morgan's chance to act as a guide for a naturalist gives new meaning to his explorations. The Commodore's Cup (1958) - an action-filled story in which young Luke Cramer crews in small-boat sailing races off the New Jersey coast and, by luck and hard work, gets a Comet Class boat of his own. Wild Pony Island (1959) - a city boy is transplanted to North Carolina's Okracoke island, noted for its wild ponies, and finds a new and challenging way of life. Buffalo And Beaver (1960) - a year spent trapping in the Rocky Mountain wilderness, before the white settlers came, gave Jeff Barlow a sense of our country's natural beauty and of history in the making. Snow on Blueberry Mountain (1961) Phantom of the Blockade (1962) The Muddy Road to Glory (1963) Stranger on Big Hickory (1964) A Blow for Liberty (1965) Topsail Island Treasure (1966) - Combining an interest in bird watching with his doctor's orders to exercise his once-paralyzed leg, Don Douglas finds himself involved in the mystery surrounding a hunt for buried treasure along the New Jersey coast. Keep 'Em Rolling (1967) Lonesome End (1968) - A shy young cowboy finds a place for himself on the high school football team in his western Kansas town. The Cape May Packet (1969) In popular culture In his novel It, Stephen King mentions Bulldozer. It's the book that Ben Hanscom had borrowed while he was young and found when he went back to Derry. References External links "Stephen W. Meader: His Contributions to American Children's Literature" is Chesley Howard Looney's 2005 doctoral dissertation on Meader. 1892 births 1977 deaths 20th-century American novelists American children's writers American male novelists American art directors American editors Haverford College alumni Newbery Honor winners People from Moorestown, New Jersey 20th-century American male writers