Piet Prins
Item # Title, author list price our price * denotes hardcover
Non series books:
197 Anak the Eskimo Boy, Prins, P. $6.30 $5.67
Far north, where the sun shines only part of the year, Anak and his family live with the rest of their Eskimo tribe near the Coronation Gulf. Anak experiences both adventure and danger as he learns how to hunt seals, caribou, and walruses; travels to the land of white man; faces the threat of a bear attack; and accidentally drifts off to sea on an ice floe. As Anak confronts the challenges of Eskimo life, he learns important lessons about responsibility and dependence on God. For readers 8 years old and up.
211 Curse of Urumbu, Prins, P. $7.50 $6.75
Adventure story set in Outback Australia: Jack (orig. from the Netherlands) is pursued through the desert by Aborigines after he kills a wallaby, thereby breaking tribal law, incurring a death sentence.
292 Run, Kevin, Run, Prins, P. $6.34 $5.71
Kevin Robbins is an orphan who has trouble adjusting to his Christian foster home. He cannot understand his foster mom and dad, and he is certain that they do not understand him, and now regret giving him a home. Kevin decides his only option is to run away from the family he dislikes, and the God he wants nothing to do with. It is only after being wanted by the police, and nearly dying himself, that Kevin discovers God’s faithfulness and His love towards His children.
50 Search for Sheltie, Prins, P. $8.90 $8.01
Having shaken “the curse of Urumbu,” Jack and his dog Sheltie return to the old country. Injured in a traffic accident, Jack is laid up in a Genoa hospital. Sheltie goes on ahead to Rotterdam where he promptly gets lost. The book gives a fascinating look at the “psychology” of a dog trying to avoid capture as he hunts doggedly for his master. Shelties’ scrapes with death make this a real nail-biter!
1952 Stefan Derksen's Polar Adventure, Prins, Piet $9.90 $8.91
Follow Stefan’s adventures aboard the whaling ship The Sea Dragon. Hunting whales, encountering ferocious polar bears, storms and fog, dealing with sickness and hunger, floating adrift and shipwrecked, all become part of Stefan Derksen’s Polar adventure. It is an adventure full of surprise. Will Stefan ever return home again and see his mother?
Four Adventures series:
223 Evil Professor, Prins, P. Four Adventures $6.34 $5.71
In this story we follow four boys who are out of school for the summer as they travel around the Netherlands in a horse drawn carriage. From the beginning of the trip we see how the boys solve the various problems that they encounter; also we see how God provides, and cares for those who call upon Him. Numerous times the boys come into some mishap or the road is not quite what they expected it would be, and yet the boys always manage to get through. They encounter three main types of people, the Christian, the person who is indifferent, and the person who takes advantage of Christians. currently out of print
278 Mystery of the Three Fingered Villain, Prins, P. Four Adventures $6.34 $5.71
The detective work of Paul, Roger, Herb and Eddie leads to a desperate cross-country chase to rescue their old friend Skippy from the three-fingered villain. currently out of print
277 Mystery of the Three Fingered Villain, Prins, P. Four Adventures $8.90 $8.01 *
hard cover edition
Scout series:
81 Distant Journey, Prins, P. Scout series $8.90 $8.01
Scout's seventh adventure reacquaints us with his three friends and introduces some new characters. One is Uncle Bob, long absent in North America but now back in the old country where he and his wife settle into a small castle! Naturally Tom and his friends, including Scout, are invited to spend the summer holidays at Uncle Bob's intriguing house. Actually, the invitation is more like a challenge: Uncle Bob pretends to have a low opinion of "modern youth;" he thinks they're soft and over-pampered. To prove him wrong, Tom and his friends decide to travel on foot. But on the journey, little goes right: disasters dog their footsteps and danger is their constant companion . . . Their arrival marks both victory and defeat . . .
67 Flying Phantom, Prins, P. Scout series $8.90 $8.01
When Tom and his friends Bert and Carl set out on an adventure over spring vacation, they are only looking for a good time. But soon a series of baffling events draws them inexorably into another mystery. What connection is there between a dangerous poacher, a police cap on top of a tower, a host of unsolved burglaries, and a mysterious fire? Is the fearsome character who walks on the swamp the ghost of the legendary Flying Phantom? Or is it something or someone else?
60 Haunted Castle, Prins, P. Scout series $8.90 $8.01
Tom and Scout are on vacation with Tom's two best friends, Carl and Bert, and his sisters, Ina and Miriam. On their rambles through the woods, the group of young people are stopped one day by the customs officials. They are accused of being in league with a gang of criminals who are smuggling goods across the nearby German border. Scout's reputation as a tracking dog has preceded him, and soon the young people are helping both the police and the customs officials. The mystery of the haunted castle, a coded message hidden under a tree, a gang of smugglers that can vanish at will, a burglary without clues - they all come together when Tom and Scout tumble over a four-hundred-year-old secret. Suddenly, however, Tom is no longer looking for adventure but fighting for his very life.
75 Mystery at the Abandoned Mill, Prins, P. Scout series $8.90 $8.01
Tom, Carl and Bert are spending the summer on the farm. One day they run into a large, surly man with a black monster of a dog. Scout and the black dog are enemies at first sight. The man arouses the boys' suspicions at once. He is no ordinary vacationer. When Scout pulls a boy from the river, the boys make a friend. From the boy’s mother they hear a story about the abandoned mill and a missing treasure. The story draws them into an adventure that sets the boys on a collision course with the dangerous man and his equally dangerous dog. Trying to play the master detective, Tom leads his friends into a desperate situation. Can they stop Scout from clashing with the powerful black dog as he rushes to their aid? After all their hard work, will the boys lose the treasure after all? Worse yet, will the crook decide to kill the only witnesses to his crime?
74 Sailing Sleuths, Prins, P. Scout series $8.90 $8.01
While Tom and his two friends are making plans for a vacation, Carl's father announces that he has acquired a sailboat. The three boys see the chance for a very unusual holiday. Their peaceful sailing trip is sabotaged when they run into a gang of notorious carnival followers who put on sidewalk shows as cover for more profitable sidelines. After a confrontation with the gang, the three sailors and Scout find themselves in trouble with the police. Their attempt to clear themselves leads to a wild chase through rivers, canals, and lakes, when at last the boys come face to face with the gang and its ruthless leader, they are stranded on an island in the middle of an isolated lake.
300 Secret of the Swamp, Prins, P. Scout series $8.90 $8.01
When Tom names his German shepherd puppy Scout, little does he know how aptly he has named him. Although the dog's tracking ability gets him and his master into serious trouble, it also saves Tom's life. Tom finds himself caught up in events of World War Two, and is forced to call on the courage and talents of his clever dog again and again. As the allied forces approach his home town, Tom and his friend overhear German military secrets. The secret trail through the swamp puts Scout's talents and Tom's courage and endurance to the ultimate test.
323 Treasure of Rodensteyn Castle, Prins, P. Scout series $8.90 $8.01
When they are invited to spend a few weeks with Uncle Arnie at the seashore, little do Tom, Carl, and Bert realize that they will be staying in the hunting lodge of a medieval castle. Uncle Arnie is quite a storyteller. Soon the boys find their imaginations filled with ghosts from Rodensteyn Castle, a castle long ago buried under the sand. But do ghosts leave tracks, tracks that Scout follows into the sea? Are the legends of the ghost of Sir Isobald and the treasure of Rodensteyn Castle true? Is it a ghost that Tom spots in the dunes at night? Can Scout's nose, no matter how keen, help the boys solve a mystery over 400 years old? Past and present, fact and fiction merge as Tom and his friends search for a treasure that has outlasted the Ages.
Shadow series:
266 Lonely Sentinel, Prins, P. Shadow #1 $8.90 $8.01
A windmill standing guard over Dutch polders; the miller's family wrestling with death and treachery; innocent children playing adult games of secrecy and intrigue; hapless refugees hounded by a merciless predator; the men of the Resistance, alert and dedicated...often to the death. Against them, the Hun and his Nazi-sympathizers.
247 Hideout in the Swamp, Prins, P. Shadow #2 $8.90 $8.01
Set in the time before D-Day in World War II, this is the story of Jan Blankers and his family. Jan’s father receives a letter from Germany telling him that he must go to Germany to work for the Nazi war effort. Because he is a Christian, he and a group of other men who are in the same situation flee to a swamp owned by farmer Kooiman. Young Jan and two of his friends are responsible for rowing a skiff through a complicated watery maze to supply the men with food. The men hiding in the swamp are also joined by two injured English airmen whose plane goes down near the farmhouse.
243 Grim Reaper, Prins, P. Shadow #3 $8.90 $8.01
Desperate, sensing defeat, the Nazis resort to crippling reprisals against civilians, sustained surveillance and counterespionage. Then comes the Battle of Arnhem. Panic-stricken, the Germans redouble their efforts to stamp out local resistance. A "double agent" discovers the hideout in the swamp. Tense, anxious moments follow. Will he succeed in betraying the refugees to the hated, dreaded Secret Police. . .?
282 The Partisans, Prins, P. Shadow #4 $8.90 $8.01
The Netherlands is under the dark cloud of Nazi occupation. Everyone is living in constant fear; no one knows where the Gestapo will strike next. Suddenly Blankers is arrested by the dreaded secret police and imprisoned, facing torture and even death. Can the Partisans rescue him in time? Will the remnant that remains struggling against Hitler's oppression be ready to welcome the Allied liberators?
296 Sabotage, Prins, P. Shadow #5 $8.90 $8.01
The winter of 1944 was the worst winter under German occupation in the Netherlands. Yet the people of the Resistance still had lots of work to do. Jan, Kris and Jaap discover a terrible German plot and everything goes wrong shortly before the liberation. Will the boys ever see their dads again?
Struggles series:
330 When the Morning Came, Prins, P., Struggle #1 $9.90 $8.91
In the Netherlands in the late sixteenth century, during the persecution of Reformed Christians, twelve-year-old Martin is separated from his parents and falls under the protection of a peddler secretly distributing Reformed books.
219 Dispelling the Tyranny, Prins, P. Struggle #2 $9.90 $8.91
After fleeing to Germany with his parents in 1568 because of the persecution of Dutch Protestants, Martin Meulenberg joins the army of Count Lodewyk in his fight to defeat the Spanish forces that control his homeland. 11-14 year olds will learn history from this account which was translated from the Dutch, with a strong emphasis on Scripture.
84 Beggar's Victory, Prins, P. Struggle #3 $9.90 $8.91
This book continues the story of the Meulenberg family, who have fled persecution in the Netherlands by the Spanish, and are now living as refugees in northwest Germany. Young Martin obtains permission to join the Sea Beggars (a famous Dutch ragtag fleet manned by men on the run from the Spanish occupation) and is part of a very bold plan to drive the occupiers from a coastal town which happens to be Martin's former home. Following the victorious invasion, Martin visits his family's abandoned farm, which is now under new ownership by a disliked and ruthless man known to spy out adherents of the "new" faith. What now?
2646 For the Heart of Holland, Prins, P. Struggle #4 $12.95 $11.65
Spanish General Valdez had cordoned Leiden off with his troops. Rather than attack the city, he used a different tactic to do the work for him: starvation. When the food rations ran out, black death wreaked death and sickness upon Leiden’s people. Among them was Elisabeth Govaerts, who found it increasingly difficult to provide meals for her father and her brother. Things looked up when her friend Martin Meulenberg managed to slip through the Spanish lines to bring food. However, with the cause of the Sea Beggars pressing him, Martin returned to his base with reports of people starving of hunger. When would the hoped-for rescue by the Prince of Orange come? With the dykes cut, why was the water not rising and why were the Sea Beggars not coming?
Wambu series:
207 Chieftan's Son, Prins, P. Wambu #1 $7.50 $6.75
Wambu is a young aborigine whose family is part of a small and slowly shrinking tribe ruled by a witch doctor.
249 In the Valley of Death, Prins, P. Wambu #2 $7.50 $6.75
Hunted by foes, tormented by spirits, and plagued by malaria, Wambu stumbles back to his old village in an effort to reach the white man.
260 Journey to Manhood, Prins, P. Wambu #3 $7.50 $6.75
Wambu learns more about Jesus, but the mystery and magic of the old tradition of witchcraft die hard in the boy’s heart.