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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

Where Seagulls Dare

Anthony Horowitz

Amelia Fang and the Memory Thief

Laura Ellen Anderson

Hotel Flamingo

Alex Milway

Hotel Flamingo: Holiday Heatwave

Alex Milway

I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916

Lauren Tarshis

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

Lauren Tarshis

Leopard Adventure

Anthony McGowan

Sabotage on the Solar Express

M. G. Leonard, Sam Sedgman

Sea Quest 2 – Silda the Electric Eel

Adam Blade

Shark Adventure

Anthony McGowan

Treasure Hunters

Chris Grabenstein, James Patterson

Treasure Hunters – All-American Adventure

Chris Grabenstein, James Patterson

Treasure Hunters – Danger Down the Nile

Chris Grabenstein, James Patterson

Treasure Hunters – Peril at the Top of the World

Chris Grabenstein, James Patterson

Treasure Hunters – Quest for the City of Gold

Chris Grabenstein, James Patterson
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