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Resumo de Os Garotos Rover sob a Lona
- 8 min de leitura
- 10 parts
- Áudio em breve
Cadets Jack and Andy Rover chase strange noises in the woods while a war rages across the ocean.
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Os Garotos Rover sob a Lona em resumo
Resumo: 8 min de leitura
- Tempo de leitura
- Cerca de 3 h 55 min3 h 10 min fast, 4 h 40 min slow
- Duração
- 56.400 palavras
- Nível na biblioteca
- Médio longer sentences, everyday words
- Primeira publicação
- 1928by Edward Stratemeyer
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Os Garotos Rover sob a Lona in short
The book follows a group of cadets from a ball game to a summer camp on the coast. Along the way a munitions plant explodes, their fathers go off to war, and old enemies keep turning up. The Rovers win elections, rescue a stranger, play pranks and gather clues without quite knowing what they add up to.
What Os Garotos Rover sob a Lona is about
The score is tied in the ninth inning at Colby Hall, and a whole grandstand is shouting. Then a great boom rolls across the lake. A shell-loading plant on the far shore has begun to blow up, and a cheerful ball game becomes a rescue mission.
This is The Rover Boys Under Canvas, written by Edward Stratemeyer for young American readers during the First World War. The sons and nephews of the first Rover brothers attend a military school, where they play ball, play pranks, and keep meeting the same spiteful rivals. Meanwhile their own fathers join the army. You get a quick tour of school life in 1917, and a puzzle: who set off the explosions, and what are the clanking sounds in the woods near the summer camp?
Para quem é. Readers who love boarding school pranks, team spirit, wartime home-front adventure, and a mystery with a dramatic opening will enjoy this novel. It also suits those curious how young Americans pictured the First World War.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A ball game and an explosion
The story opens at the yearly baseball game between Hixley High and Colby Hall. Hixley wants revenge for losing the football game, and it has a star pitcher. By the sixth inning the visitors lead four to two.
In the ninth inning Jack Rover hits a home run that ties the game. Then Fred slides home with the winning run. The cheering has barely started when the ground shakes. Across Clearwater Lake, the Hasley Shell Loading Company is blowing up. Smoke rolls skyward, small shells pop like machine guns, and wreckage flies through the air.
The ball players realize that the girls' school, Clearwater Hall, sits right opposite the plant. Fred's sister Mary has stayed behind with a headache, so the boys pile into cars and race toward her. The Rovers run toward trouble rather than away from it.
A team that keeps fighting when the score looks bad can face a disaster.
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Four boys rescue a drowning dockworker
The four Rovers, Jack, Fred, Andy and Randy, borrow a rowboat at the girls' school and head onto the lake to help any injured workmen.
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Old enemies return with secret business
At the girls' boathouse the Rovers hear unwelcome news.
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Pranks keep the Rovers laughing
Between the serious scenes, the book makes room for mischief.
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Fathers volunteer and the boys cope
News arrives late one night by telegram.
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Jack runs for captain and makes an enemy
Back at Colby Hall, the boys face exams and then the annual election of officers before the encampment.
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A night raid and a breakfast of onions
The cadets march thirty-five miles toward Barlight Bay, with a night in a dairy farmer's field.
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Strange sounds, rifles and a spoiled picnic
At Camp Barlight the cadets live in tents beside the bay, with drills and guard duty.
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Duty at home and abroad
One of the book's main subjects is duty, and it appears in different sizes.
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Fair play and how the story is told
Fair play is the second major subject.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Jack Rover The oldest Rover cadet, steady and fair, who becomes captain of Company C and wants to protect his sister and friends.
- Fred Rover Jack's cousin, a loyal and good-natured marksman who becomes first lieutenant and wants to see his father off to war.
- Andy Rover A fun-loving twin who plays pranks on bullies and hides his worry about his uncles behind jokes.
- Randy Rover Andy's twin, quick-witted and bold, who hears odd noises on sentry duty and wants his father to join the army.
- Spouter Powell A talkative cadet who loves long speeches and proves a reliable friend when trouble comes.
- Gabe Werner A sulky former lieutenant who loses the captaincy and plots to get even with Jack and Fred.
- Slugger Brown A spiteful former cadet who bothers the Rovers and their girl friends and hopes to get money from his father's schemes.
- Captain Mapes Dale The old West Pointer who runs the camp and backs the cadets when they bring him news.
How it ends (spoiler)
The cadets follow the strange noises to a hidden cave beneath the cliffs and find a damaged German submarine and its workmen. Jack, Fred and Gif capture a guard and disable part of the boat. Secret Service men then arrest the crew, Mr. Brown and Mr. Martell, who had been selling supplies to the Germans. Two captured men also prove to be the plant saboteurs. The Rovers' fathers sail for France, and Werner vanishes for now.
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Dúvidas sobre Os Garotos Rover sob a Lona
What is The Rover Boys Under Canvas about?
It follows four cadets at Colby Hall military school during the First World War. A munitions plant explodes, their fathers join the army, and a summer encampment by the sea brings strange noises and a mystery.
Who are the Rover boys in this book?
They are Jack and his cousins Fred, Andy and Randy, the sons of the three Rover brothers from the first series. Jack is steady, Fred reliable, and the twins Andy and Randy are the pranksters.
Do I need to read the earlier Rover Boys books first?
No. The preface says the book is a complete story, and a chapter gives a short account of the Rover family and their friends and enemies, so a new reader can start here.
When was The Rover Boys Under Canvas written and is it a true story?
It is a novel written during the First World War, around the time the United States entered the conflict in 1917. The characters and plot are invented, but real wartime fears of sabotage and submarines shape it.
What is the main message of the book?
It stresses loyalty, fair play and doing your duty, whether that means joining the army, running a business at home, or facing bullies with courage and humor. Teamwork and kindness win out over spite.
Cite esta edição
Stratemeyer, Edward. The Rover Boys Under Canvas. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-rover-boys-under-canvas.
Stratemeyer, E. (2026). The Rover boys under canvas. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-rover-boys-under-canvas (Original work published 1928)
Stratemeyer, Edward. The Rover Boys Under Canvas. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-rover-boys-under-canvas.
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