It was the end of summer vacations and the schools had just reopened. 12-year-old James and his sister, Mary, along with his friends go on an adventure when they stumble upon an old piece of paper while playing. They encounter challenges at every stage. The first book in the series of Adventures of James and His Friends - titled The Mysterious Paper - takes you through a maze of brain-challenging activities which a mastermind has set up. Can James and his team overcome it and find the real treasure? Open the book and read the exhilarating adventure!

James and his friends go to enjoy their holidays at John's father's beach house and spend their vacations. But danger always follows them, and this time it wrapped them inside! James and his friends end up on an island filled with traps and bloody creatures, the Skull Island. The island was mentioned in the map which James had hunted by solving the mini treasure hunt. Would James and his friends be able to battle and survive on the island? Would they get the treasure? Enjoy reading this second book in the series, Adventures of James and His Friends - The Skull Island.

According to A.N. Adam's "Genealogical history of Henry Adams" (1898), the hero of this work was not James Capen Adams but his older brother John.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.