Victor Appleton

Three very successful series of stories aimed at children and teens were created by a man who had a book-packaging house and didn’t want to cause confusion. So none of the stories ever had his name on them....

Every year, Swift Academy students go to a nearby summer camp to field-test their inventions. Tom and his friends have been working hard on all their projects, but they’re most thrilled about Noah’s new virtual reality simulation....

Tom's always tried to play down his pseudo celebrity status at the academy. So, the last thing he wants is a reporter’s son following him around for an article on the school. When this extends to a field trip - an overnight lock-in at Swift Enterprises - Tom couldn’t be less pleased....

Tom gets to take all sorts of cool classes at the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, but robotics may be the one he is most excited for. Their teacher is holding a battling robot tournament, and Tom has to build a machine that will come out on top....

When your dad funds the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, you’re bound to have a bunch of tech at your disposal. So no one bats an eye when Tom and his best friend, Noah, test their new virtual reality drone before class....

This time Tom Swift is off to Alaska to hunt for the valley of gold....

Here's another light-hearted adventure in this popular series of entertaining stories about Tom Swift and his latest inventions....

Volume 19 of the Tom Swift series, Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel finds our hero in Peru, South America....

In this adventure Tom, Ned, Mr. Damon and Eradicate travel to South America in search of a tribe of giants....

Volume 10 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero building a new airship and taking it to Africa....

Tom Swift not only invents, but builds an electric locomotive capable of speeds in excess of 120 mph....

Our hero, Tom Swift, takes his airship, the Red Cloud, and his friends above the Arctic Circle in search of gold....

A blaze breaks out in a fireworks factory near Tom Swift's home, but the fire is even closer to his sweetheart, Mary Nestor's house....

Volume nine of the Tom Swift series pits our hero Tom Swift against his arch rival Andy Foger in an airplane race for a prize of $10,000....

Volume 16 of the Tom Swift series, finds our hero inventing the world's largest, and of course best, cannon for Uncle Sam....

Book number 15 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero pursuing smugglers across the Canadian border....

As the title implies, our hero Tom Swift invents and designs a monster of the battlefield....

Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout takes us back to gentler times when the bad guys weren't really that bad, didn't carry Uzis, and being an inventor like Thomas Edison was the dream of many young boys....

Volume seven of the Tom Swift series, "Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers" brings our hero, Tom Swift, to Phantom Mountain, somewhere in Colorado....

Our hero's father is completing an amazing submarine loaded with high-tech gadgetry when Tom discovers that a vessel has sunk containing $300,000 in gold....