ACTION BOOKS is dedicated to bringing your child enjoyable and refreshing books for their reading pleasure. These books were written at a more innocent time in our history and many were written nearly 100 years ago. They still read as fresh today as they did back then. Although some of the language, references and attitudes were acceptable at the time they were written, they may not be politically correct today. Many of Tom Swift's inventions are products we mostly take for granted today. Who knows, Tom's adventures may encourage your child to become a scientist or engineer when they grow up....

Published in 1911, this is the story of Tom Swift and his Wireless Message.

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. "Gracious goodness What was that, Mrs. Baggert?" he called to a motherly-looking woman who stood in the doorway. "What happened?"

Tom Swift appeared to be calm, although in reality he was about as excited over his latest invention as he ever had been about anything in his life. "I'm sure it's going to work, Ned " he said eagerly to his chum as they neared Tom's private laboratory. "With my new device I hope to learn more about the planets. I want to start soon-" "Listen here " broke in Ned Newton. "If you're thinking of going to Mars or the moon, just count me out I've gone with you to many strange places and have never kicked. But this-"

"Come on now, ready with those smoke bombs Where's the Confederate army, anyhow? And you Unionists, don't look as though you were going to rob an apple orchard Suffering snakes, you're going into battle and you're going to lick the boots off the Johnnie Rebs Look the part Look the part Now, then, what about the cannon? Got plenty of powder in 'em so there'll be lots of smoke?"

With a series of puffs and chugs a big, shiny motor cycle turned from the road into the graveled drive at the side of a white farmhouse. Two boys sat on the creaking saddles. The one at the front handle bars threw forward the clutch lever, and then turned on the power sharply to drive the last of the gases out of the twin cylinders.

"Well, Blake, it doesn't seem possible that we have succeeded; does it?" and the lad who asked the question threw one leg over the saddle of his pony, to ride side fashion for a while, as a rest and change. "No, Joe, it doesn't," answered another youth. "But we sure have got some dandy films in those boxes " and he looked back on some laden burros that were following the cow ponies across a stretch of Arizona desert.

Thom Swift and His Sky Racer by Victor Appleton. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1911 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.