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Hand-picked Adventure Books for Children

Quests, expeditions, runaways and rescues. Books that pull a reader out the door and into somewhere bigger.

648 adventure books

The Little Rainmaker

Roopal Kewalya

The Long-Lost Home

Maryrose Wood

The Lost Whale

Hannah Gold

The Map to Everywhere 4 – Iron Tide Rising

Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis

The Mapmakers’ Race

Eirlys Hunter

The Million Dollar Race

Matthew Ross Smith

The Mirror in Time

Bill Martin Jr., Michael Sampson

The Monkey Who Fell From the Future

Ross Welford

The Moon-Faced Ghoul-Thing

Barry Hutchison

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Beverly Cleary

The Mouse Family Robinson

Dick King-Smith

The Mystery of the Icy Paw Prints

Harper Paris

The Night I Met Father Christmas

Ben Miller

The Nowhere Thief

Alice Ross

The Oregon Trail 1 – The Race to Chimney Rock

Jesse Wiley

The Oregon Trail 2 – Danger at the Haunted Gate

Jesse Wiley

The Oregon Trail 3 – The Search for Snake River

Jesse Wiley

The Oregon Trail 4 – The Road to Oregon City

Jesse Wiley

The Orphans of St Halibut’s

Sophie Wills

The Otterbury Incident

C. Day-Lewis

The Outlaw Varjak Paw

S. F. Said

The Peach Pit

Erin Soderberg Downing

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

Jeanne Birdsall

The Pennymores and the Curse of the Invisible Quill

Eric Koester
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