# library.forgemesh.io – Adventure & Adventurers Juvenile Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io – Adventure & Adventurers Juvenile Fiction Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain adventure and juvenile fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/adventure-and-adventurers-juvenile-fiction
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-adventure-adventurers-juvenile-fiction-shelf-be3038d3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JXqRKiguKyLhqgV4vK-SG

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability library-forgemesh-io-adventure-adventurers-juvenile-fiction-shelf-be3038d3 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of 30 public-domain adventure and juvenile fiction books from the ForgemMesh library — things like Tom Swift or classic adventure stories for kids?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain adventure and juvenile fiction titles specifically, and want to browse the shelf before drilling into full text. Prefer it over full-text search when you want discovery by genre/category rather than keyword matching across the entire corpus. Also prefer it when you need no API key and are willing to pay a small per-call fee via x402.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — likely returns an error or is clamped to maximum
- Payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) — call rejected before returning results
- Empty result set unlikely given 296 books in corpus but possible if service index is unavailable
- Network timeout if the library backend is slow to respond

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction — 296 public-domain books including The last dragon, The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries, Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of public-domain books in the Adventure and Adventurers – Juvenile Fiction category (up to 50 entries per call), each with a title and a drill-down route that can be used to retrieve the full text of that book.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "The last dragon",
    "author": "Totheroh, Dan",
    "book_id": 76411,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 11316
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-adventure-adventurers-juvenile-fiction-shelf-be3038d3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from library.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)