James Otis Kaler (March 19, 1848 — December 11, 1912) was an American journalist and author of children’s literature, primarily in the boys' adventure genre. The vast majority of his works were published under the name James Otis, but he also wrote as Amy Prentice, Harry Prentice, and Lt. James K. Orton. His works include the Boy Spies series, the Navy Boys series, the Minute Boys series, a number of historical novels published by the American Book Company, and more than thirty novels about life in New York State.
Series
Books
The Minute Boys of the Green Mountains
1904
The Boy Spies With the Regulators
1901
The Boy Spies at the Siege of Detroit
1904
Morgan, The Jersey Spy
1899
The Minute Boys of Philadelphia
1911
With Lafayette at Yorktown
1895
Sarah Dillard's Ride
A Story of the Carolinas in 1780
1898
Corporal 'Lige's Recruit
A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga
1898
Philip of Texas
1913
The Minute Boys of New York City
1909
Mr. Stubbs's Brother
1882
The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley
1905
Toby Tyler
1880
On the Kentucky Frontier
A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West
1900
A Tory Plot
A Story of the Attempt to Kill General Washington in 1776
1899
The Boy Spies with the Swamp Fox
The Story of General Marion and His Young Spies
1899
Richard of Jamestown
a Story of the Virginia Colony
1910
Mary of Plymouth
1910
The Minute Boys of the Wyoming Valley
1906
Stephen of Philadelphia
A Story of Penn's Colony
1910
A Traitor's Escape
A Story of the Attempt to Seize Benedict Arnold After He Had Fled to New York
1898
The Boy Spies of Philadelphia
1897
The Minute Boys of Boston
1910
Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington
1907
