Book Lists: Adventure

When Wade, Lily, Darrell, and Becca fly to the funeral of Wade's Uncle Henry, they never expect to find themselves in a dangerous quest to unlock an ancient, guarded secret that could destroy the fate of the world.

Thirteen-year-old superhero sidekick-in-training Drew "The Sensationalist" Bean must overcome his not-so-superpowers and become the hero everyone needs when a supervillain, The Dealer, returns to Justicia.

When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog Baxterr discover that Tuesday's mother--the famous author Serendipity Smith--has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from.

When war comes to her village in southern Sudan, Poni is forced to flee, and join thousands of refugees traveling on foot and experiencing great hardship on their way to a refugee camp.

Just when Bridget Wilder thinks no one has remembered her birthday, she discovers a mysterious bag left in her locker, with broken glasses, gross-tasting lip gloss, and a defunct smartphone--or not. The smartphone rings, and Bridget is initiated into Section 23, a branch of the CIA run by her biological father and super-spy, Carter Strike, who begins training her to be a spy, just like him.

Fifteen-year-old Kit and his parents must ground their sinking sailboat on a rocky island inhabited by a primitive sect who believe the stranded family has been sent by the devil.

When sixth-grade classroom terror Jacob Wonderbar and his friends Sarah and Dexter find a spaceship crashed in the woods near their suburban neighborhood, their discovery leads them on a series of adventures involving space travel, substitute teachers, and kidnapping.

After losing his mother, Bully finds himself destitute on the streets with his dog Jack. When he finds a winning lottery tick stuck inside an old birthday card his mother gave him, his luck could be about to turn around. But people are after him, wanting a piece of his prize at any cost. And now Bully and Jack can only hope to survive long enough to claim their prize.

Ten years after the disappearance of superhumans--both heroes and villains--thirteen-year-olds Danny and Colin begin to develop super powers, making them the object of much unwanted attention.

Twelve-year-old Happenstance wakes up in a cave with no idea how he got there, or who he is, but merchant and royal advisor Lord Umber helps Hap and his two friends escape from the caverns.

Twelve-year-old Liam, who looks like he is thirty and is tired of being treated like he is older than he actually is, decides he is going to pose as the adult chaperone on the first spaceship to take civilians into space, but when he ends up in outer space with a group of kids and no adult supervision, he must think fast to make things right.

In a barren future world, the company known as Breathe has saved humanity by manufacturing glass domes and oxygen rich air. Outside the domes there is nothing, not even oxygen. Three teens--Alina, a thief; Quinn, a teen looking for romance with the girl of his dreams, the description of which fits Alina; and Bea, the girl who had hoped Quinn would notice her--take a journey into the Outlands, with enough oxygen for two days. What they find out there is shocking, and they may not want to return to their bubble.

Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.

In England in 1346, thirteen-year-old asthmatic Adrian, nicknamed "Badger," is determined to become a soldier, despite being destined for the life of a scribe. But when war breaks out between the English and the Scots, and Adrian ends up befriending a wounded Scotsman named Donald, he is forced to question his previous beliefs about identity and war.

Tyson and his grandfather sneak off on an elk hunting trip and come across a grizzly bear who has killed two other hunters.

Catherine "Cat" Royal, an orphan who lives at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, rallies her friends to try to save Pedro from the clutches of Mr. Hawkins, a slavemaster who considers Pedro his property.

When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.

In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety.

She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her. And that she must run. Follow Cady and Ty (her accidental savior turned companion), as they race against the clock to stay alive.

Thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard at his recently-deceased grandmother's house that leads him on an adventure blending figures from an old, unfinished detective story with his family's past.

Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past.

Fifteen-year-old Colt Shore's life is turned upside-down when he discovers he is the son of two top spies. He quickly becomes an active agent in F.A.L.C.O.N. (the Free Alliance for the Lasting Cooperation of Nations) and is put on a case to protect a famous rock band and find a missing journalist. Before he knows it, Colt is trying to stop a human trafficking ring and save a group of kidnapped teenage girls from their captors.

In the year 2098, grieving her father and angry with her mother, fifteen-year-old Kelsa joins the magical Raven on an epic journey from Utah to Alaska to heal the earth by restoring the flow of magic that humans have disrupted.

Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.

After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.

A clever and fearless orphan endures increasing danger while trying to escape from greedy, lawless men and elude the terrifying "kinderstalks"--animals who steal children--before discovering her true destiny.

Upon her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Catherine puts her courage and strength to the test by disguising herself as a boy to join her father, a pirate captain, on a ship whose crew includes men who are trying to steal a treasure from him.

On a pleasure cruise in the Pacific, seventeen-year-old Susannah, her parents, seventeen-year-old cousin Martin, and eighteen-year-old crew member Axel face off against seventeen-year-old Jeremy, a drug lord's son, and hired killers Elwood and fifteen-year-old Shako.

In a moment of desperation, Donny Taylor accepts an offer from a demon who will save his life if he works for her, and soon he finds himself in Hell but a new, kinder, gentler Hell where not everyone is happy about the changes and some will do anything to bring back the traditional ways.

Best friends Jake and "Weird Lily" enter the monster-filled land of Always October, made famous in Jake's grandfather's books, to save a foundling who becomes a monster during the full moon.

When her father leaves in the middle of the night, Solveig sets off in a boat to follow him to Constantinople.

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her.

Mary O'Hara is a sharp and cheeky twelve-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Gran is dying. But Gran can't let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary's street with a message for her Gran, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure.

Determined to fend for herself in a world where only men have real freedom, headstrong Helen, who will be called queen of Sparta and Helen of Troy one day, learns to fight, hunt, and ride horses while disguised as a boy, and goes on an adventure throughout the Mediterranean world.

Thirteen-year-old Dahlia's reluctance about attending Camp Arava changes to wonder as strange things begin to happen, and soon she is connecting with David Schank, a student of the kabbala, and the maze he built at the camp in the 1930s.

Seventeen-year-old Jack London journeys to the Yukon Territory in search of gold but what he finds is kidnapping, slavery, and supernatural beasts that want to use Jack's personal demons against him.

Using principles of their shared Muslim faith to persuade him, an agent of the Old Man of the Mountain convinces Kamil to lead Will and Ellie into a trap, but Kamil repents and seeks a way to save his friends and redeem himself.

When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protect everything she has ever loved.

In the near future there is the City, and it is divided. Southside is home to the hostiles, who live in poverty and hatred for those who get to live in Cityside. Nik is a high schooler on the fast-track to a career with the Internal Security and Intelligence Services, those who fight the war against hostiles. ISIS turns Nik down, shocking everyone around him, and then Nik's best friend Sol is kidnapped by hostiles who have captured the bridge from one part of town to the other. Now Nik and Sol's sister, Fyffe, are on the run from ISIS, searching in Southside for any sign of Sol, where questions are answered that should never have been asked.

When fourteen-year-old Max Cassidy, an escape artist, is visited by a stranger after one of his shows, he learns that his father's supposed death did not occur, and that his mother, who was sent to prison for the crime, is innocent. Given only one clue to the case, Max begins a journey to uncover the truth and find out what tore his family apart.

Thirteen-year-old Matt Thorsen of Blackwell, South Dakota is a direct descendent of the order-keeping god Thor, and his classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke are descendents of the trickster god Loki. When the apocalypse threatens, the human descendents of the gods must find Thor's Hammer and shield and fight monsters to stop the end of the world.

Criminal mastermind Kaz Brekker assembles a team of outcasts to break into the world's most secure prison and remove a prisoner with secrets that very powerful people want. Kaz devises a daring plan, but old grudges, mistrust, secrets, and rivalries cause the plan to go horribly awry and the team finds itself caught in the middle of a deadly plot to destroy the world.

As the active-duty daughter of international spies, sixteen-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver never attended high school so when she and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, Maggie is introduced to cliques, school lunches, and maybe even a boyfriend.

Deep beneath London, five extraordinary youths, orphans who bonded over their shared sense of justice, have formed the Urban Outlaws and dedicated themselves to outsmarting criminals and performing Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s), but they are in serious trouble when the face a genius super-computer, Proteus.

Barnaby Brocket, an eight year old, was born floating. He defies gravity, which is a horror to his parents who do not like attention. One day Barnaby gets away and floats into the sky, traveling the world and even into outer-space, to find who he really is.

At his father's funeral, Edward Michael "Em" Goverton notices armed men have shown up, and these armed men follow him home. Em has discovered a five-hundred-year-old prophecy by Nostradamus, and these armed men work for men who are connected to that prophecy. With only a stranger named Victor and a family friend named Charlotte as allies, Em embarks on a quest to uncover a conspiracy and stop the end of the world.

In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits.

Two teenaged runaways meet at a climbing gym and together embark on a dangerous and revealing journey.

Just when their lives couldn't get any better, Brendan, Eleanor, and Cordelia Walker's father loses his job in a mysterious accident. Forced to relocate to an old Victorian house that just happens to be the former home of occult novelist Denver Kristoff--and it would seem the occult influence on the house hasn't left. The three Walker kids wake up one night to find themselves banished to a magical, primeval forest, haunted by medieval warriors, with supernatural pirates sailing the seas around them. The siblings have to figure out how they got there in order to get back home.

Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.

After years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a Seeker, Quin Kincaid, fifteen, learns that she will be using the ancient artifacts and sacred knowledge as an assassin.

When Michael Malone saves a dog, he discovers that he has paranormal abilities, which bring him to the attention of a secret organization, UNICORNE, but he plans to use the ability to find out what happened to his father, who mysteriously vanished three years earlier, and save his new friend, Freya.

Apsley "Cherry" Cherry-Garrard shares his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica in the early twentieth century, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn the evolutionary history of emperor penguins. Includes historical notes.

The Slabhenge Reformatory for Troubled Boys is a decaying fortress on a remote island, inhabited only by the fifteen boys sentenced to live there and the adults hired to supervise them. It's also twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby's home for the next ten weeks, and he accepts the punishment he feels he deserves. When a lightning bolt strikes, killing every adult at the reformatory, the boys are suddenly left to fend for themselves. They are enjoying their freedom until another storm strikes, leaving the boys in danger of dying themselves, and forcing Jonathan to face his past in order to save himself and the others.

Lonely and isolated, twelve-year-old Oliver Parker's longing for friendship and a little adventure materialize one winter Paris evening when he looks into a mirror and is swept away to the Palace of Versailles and into the court of the Window Wraiths, where he becomes their ruler.

When Iranian-American Kamran Smith learns that his big brother, Darius, has been labeled a terrorist, he sets out to piece together the codes and clues that will save his brother's life and his country from a deadly terrorist attack.

When his parents disappear after a fierce storm, eleven-year-old Danny, unaccustomed to acts of bravery, comes to their rescue after finding a valuable shard of wood that enables him to talk to plants and animals and battle terrifyingly powerful enemies, including the demonic Sammael.

When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Destined to take over his family farm in Norrøngard, Karn would rather play the board game, Thrones and Bones, until half-human, half frost giantess Thianna appears and they set out on an adventure, chased by a dragon, undead warriors, an evil uncle, and more.

When sixteen-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends, one a centaur, leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos's father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.

Twelve-year-old Nick McIver tries to help his father and sister send vital information to England about imminent Nazi invasion, until he finds himself transported through time to help his ancestor stop a mutinous captain who is aiding the French fleet and endangering British sailors.

Seventeen-year-old Harry Fogg undertakes a race against time to win a wager with a member of his famous father's club, putting to good use the recklessness and fascination with all things mechanical that have caused him trouble in Victorian England.

En route to the Midway Atoll from Hawaii, their airplane Robie is flying on experiences technical difficulties and she and the co-pilot, Max, are stranded on an island as they await rescue that may never come.

Eager to remove a pending lawsuit on his family, twelve-year-old Linc agrees to act as the double of a secret agent whom he closely resembles. However, he soon discovers that the mission he is supposed to carry out is far more dangerous than he suspected.

Cousins William and Maxine arrive on the doorstep of Battersea Manor in May of 1929, to stay the summer with their grandfather, whom they hardly remember. Before they even get settled in, though, Grandpa, or Colonel Battersea, receives a cryptic telegram and takes them to New York to pick up a mysterious parcel. Before they get the parcel, Grandpa disappears, and the cousins meet Nura, a girl from Turkey who seems to know a lot about Colonel Battersea and the importance of the parcel--and she needs their help to stop a secret society of assassins and a group of cold-blooded gangsters from getting the parcel first.

Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.

In the late 1100s, thirteen-year-old Will, the future Lord of Shackley, is exiled to Sherwood Forest, where he meets Robin Hood and the Merry Men and bands with them to try retake Shackley Castle.

While escaping from the strange men that are after him in London, Jimmy discovers he possesses many unusual talents for an eleven-year-old boy.

Grayling is the only one who can save her mother, a wise healer, who is turning into a tree from an evil spell. Now Grayling must gather the witches and magicians from the surrounding woodlands who were not affected by the spell in order to reverse it. Grayling is unsure of her own strength and doubts she can pull it off. But with the help of the friends she meets along the way, she may just be able to do what needs to be done and grow in the process.

In the threatened jungle of the Borderlands between Nepal and India during the 1970s, an orphaned boy discovers his fate as a great elephant driver.

Escaping from a sinking ferry in the waters off Sumatra, fourteen-year-old Emily fights for survival for herself and a young Indonesian boy, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith.

Jacob and Will Reckless have looked out for each other ever since their father disappeared, but when Jacob discovers a magical mirror that transports him to a warring world populated by witches, giants, and ogres, he keeps it to himself until Will follows him one day, with dire consequences.

After a plane crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.

When an unpopular teenager, Melanie, discovers her mother is missing, she travels to the Half World to save her from the nightmare creature Mr. Glueskin. While there, Melanie discovers her destiny is to reunite the two realms.

Eleven-year-old Gabriel, with the help of the young raven Paladin, with whom he has a magical bond, travels to the foreboding land of Aviopolis, where he must face challenges and unanswerable riddles to rescue his long-missing father.

The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.