Down the Big River (1924) - The voyage of a frontier family down the Ohio River in pioneer days.The Black Buccaneer (1920) - Pirates along the Atlantic coast in the 18th century.Ī biography of Meader is also available from the Southern Skies website.

He moved his family to Moorestown Township, New Jersey in 1922. Today all (or nearly all) of his novels are available in reprint from Southern Skies. His first novel, The Black Buccaneer, was the first juvenile publication of the newly founded Harcourt, Brace and Howe. After working for a Chicago publishing house in 1916, he took a position with the Circulation Department of the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, eventually reaching the position of Editor of the Sales Division publications. Meader graduated from Haverford College in Philadelphia in 1913, and initially worked in Newark, New Jersey as a cruelty officer with the Essex County Children's Aid Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and by 1915 was working for the Big Brother Movement. His optimistic stories generally tended to either concern young men developing independent businesses in the face of adversity, or else young men caught up in adventures during different periods in American history. Meader (– July 18, 1977) was the writer of over forty novels for young readers.

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It is set in America in the early 1700s and gives a great flavour of colonial times. After several adventures he regains his freedom and later evens the score assisting in the buccaneers' capture. In this book the young hero is snatched by the pirates of the title. Another of his novels (Bulldozer) was referenced by Stephen King. He wrote extensively for young readers and was a firm favourite of many.

Away to Sea by Stephen W. Meader