Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danger at Mormon Crossing | 1959 | Robert Leckie | Buy |
| 2 | Black Treasure | 1963 | Robert Leckie | Buy |
| 3 | Stormy Voyage | 1964 | Robert Leckie | Buy |
| 4 | Fire at Red Lake | 1965 | Robert Leckie | Buy |
| 5 | Secret Mission to Alaska | 1966 | Robert Leckie | Buy |
| 6 | Troubled Waters | 2024 | Robert Leckie | Buy |
The Sandy Steele Adventures were a series of children’s adventure books published in the late 1950s and 1960s. Robert Leckie contributed six entries, with stories set in locations ranging from lake country to Alaska. The books follow Sandy Steele through outdoor adventures designed for young readers, with titles like Danger at Mormon Crossing, Fire at Red Lake, and Stormy Voyage suggesting the action-oriented plots.
The series represents the children’s fiction side of Leckie’s career, which ran alongside his military history writing. Troubled Waters (2024) is a recent addition or reissue, extending the series decades after its original run. For Leckie, the Sandy Steele books were a way to reach younger readers with adventure stories, separate from the military history that defined his adult-audience work.