Adventure

On San Francisco Bay in 1866, when a mysterious shipwreck survivor - a young, feverish boy who claims to be a pirate - washes into their cove, secrets that have been tranquilly hidden across generations are suddenly threatened.
207 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Pirates, 19th Century

Book 2 of the Wave Walkers series.
240 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates

Book 1 of the Wave Walkers series. Jolly and Munk, two "polliwogs" who have the ability to walk on water, running for their lives from an evil sea creature, end up on a mysterious pirate ship run by a crew of ghosts.
336 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates, Ghosts

Prequel to Peter Pan. Sequel to Peter and the Starcatchers. On the journey across the sea to London, Peter and Tinkerbell discover the deadly part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra. When Peter reaches London, he and Molly must combat Ombras' forces to protect the Starcatchers and the starstuff, and to rescue Molly's mother from the clutches of evil.
576 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Pirates, Flying People, Monsters

Book 2 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. As the Kalaxx warriors close in on the hidden cove where they are stranded, Becca and Doug unearth a riddle linked to a 1533 painting, which may hold the key to the Guild's dark secrets and to finding their parents. But how can they solve the puzzle and escape with their lives before their enemies attack?
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Book 1 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. While trying to find their missing parents, Doug and Becca encounter an ancient order of Chinese mercenaries, a brutal pirate warlord, a feisty Texan heiress, and a stolen cache of a volatile explosive called zoridium. By their saga's end, the duo has exposed a murderous plot involving their parents and uncovered a secret society hidden from the world for hundreds of years.
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
194 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Mexico, Pirates, 19th Century, Wild West Pioneers

Prequel to Peter Pan. In a fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.
480 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Mermaids & Selkies, Pirates, Flying People

Nancy Kington, daughter of a rich merchant, suddenly orphaned when her father dies, is sent to live on her family's plantation in Jamaica. Disgusted by the treatment of the slaves and her brother's willingness to marry her off, she and one of the slaves, Minerva, run away and join a band of pirates.
340 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Book 3 of the High Seas Trilogy. Sixteen-year-old John sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, storms, fever, and a strange man who may be cursed.
256 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Book 2 of the High Seas Trilogy. In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.
208 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Book 1 of the High Seas Trilogy. Shipwrecked after a storm, fourteen-year-old John attempts to save his father and himself from the murderous community who lure storm-tossed ships to crash on rocks of their shore so they can steal their loot.
224 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Book 2 of the Wave Walkers series.
240 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates

Book 1 of the Wave Walkers series. Jolly and Munk, two "polliwogs" who have the ability to walk on water, running for their lives from an evil sea creature, end up on a mysterious pirate ship run by a crew of ghosts.
336 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Pirates, Ghosts

Sequel to The Convicts. As Tom Tin sails through islands of headhunters and cannibals to Australia, where he's to serve a lengthy sentence for a murder he didn't commit, he and his fellow convict, Midgely, plot their escape.
240 pages, Grades 6-8
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, 19th Century, Boy Bullies

Prequel to Peter Pan. Sequel to Peter and the Starcatchers. On the journey across the sea to London, Peter and Tinkerbell discover the deadly part-man/part-creature Lord Ombra. When Peter reaches London, he and Molly must combat Ombras' forces to protect the Starcatchers and the starstuff, and to rescue Molly's mother from the clutches of evil.
576 pages Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Pirates, Flying People, Monsters

Book 2 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. As the Kalaxx warriors close in on the hidden cove where they are stranded, Becca and Doug unearth a riddle linked to a 1533 painting, which may hold the key to the Guild's dark secrets and to finding their parents. But how can they solve the puzzle and escape with their lives before their enemies attack?
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Book 1 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. While trying to find their missing parents, Doug and Becca encounter an ancient order of Chinese mercenaries, a brutal pirate warlord, a feisty Texan heiress, and a stolen cache of a volatile explosive called zoridium. By their saga's end, the duo has exposed a murderous plot involving their parents and uncovered a secret society hidden from the world for hundreds of years.
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow stows away on board Shakleton's ship bound to explore the Antarctic continent. Within months, the ship, trapped and crushed by ice, sank with no hope of rescue. If the men were to survive in the most hostile place on earth, they would have to do it on their own.
336 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Survival

When Isabel's fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: dozens of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel discovers she has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again, and she has a destiny to fulfill among the whales.
192 pages, Grades 3-5
related subjects:  Whales, Sea Adventures

Prequel to Peter Pan. In a fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.
480 pages Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Orphans, Sea Adventures, Mermaids & Selkies, Pirates, Flying People

Nancy Kington, daughter of a rich merchant, suddenly orphaned when her father dies, is sent to live on her family's plantation in Jamaica. Disgusted by the treatment of the slaves and her brother's willingness to marry her off, she and one of the slaves, Minerva, run away and join a band of pirates.
340 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Six kids alone on a sinking ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean have to find a way to survive.
416 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Survival

Book 3 of the High Seas Trilogy. Sixteen-year-old John sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, storms, fever, and a strange man who may be cursed.
256 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Book 2 of the High Seas Trilogy. In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.
208 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

Book 1 of the High Seas Trilogy. Shipwrecked after a storm, fourteen-year-old John attempts to save his father and himself from the murderous community who lure storm-tossed ships to crash on rocks of their shore so they can steal their loot.
224 pages, Grades 5-8
related subjects:  18th Century, Pirates, Sea Adventures

A retelling of Herman Melville's classic story of the obsessed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Together with Starbuck, the mate; Queequeg, the harpoonist; the sinister crewman Fedallah; and the innocent narrator, Ishmael, Ahab travels the oceans of the world in pursuit of the elusive monster, braving waves like strips of volcanoes and lightning like the visitation of angels.
104 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Whales, Sea Adventures

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself accused of murder.
240 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, 19th Century, Murder Mysteries

Book 2 of the Grk series.
208 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Dogs, Spies

Book 1 of the Grk series. A British schoolboy finds adventure when he travels to a dangerous foreign country to return a small dog to its rightful owner.
241 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Dogs, Spies

Book 2 of the Jimmy Coates series.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Robots, Spies

Book 6 of the Alex Rider series. Shot outside the offices of MI6 and left for dead by Scorpia, Alex Rider awakens in a top-secret hospital, glad simply to be alive. But when the boy in the next room is the victim of a kidnapping attempt, it is Alex who saves him, only to be kidnapped himself.
362 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

Book 2 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. As the Kalaxx warriors close in on the hidden cove where they are stranded, Becca and Doug unearth a riddle linked to a 1533 painting, which may hold the key to the Guild's dark secrets and to finding their parents. But how can they solve the puzzle and escape with their lives before their enemies attack?
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Book 5 of the Artemis Fowl series.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Spies

Book 4 of the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. He doesn't know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by cloning herself. She's left her double behind in jail and, now free, is exacting her revenge on all those who put her there, including Artemis.
400 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Fairies, Spies

Book 1 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. While trying to find their missing parents, Doug and Becca encounter an ancient order of Chinese mercenaries, a brutal pirate warlord, a feisty Texan heiress, and a stolen cache of a volatile explosive called zoridium. By their saga's end, the duo has exposed a murderous plot involving their parents and uncovered a secret society hidden from the world for hundreds of years.
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Book 1 of the Jimmy Coates series. Eleven-year-old Jimmy is on the run. The good news is that he has some sweet new abilities that let him outrun, outjump, and outkick anybody-even adults. The bad news is that the mysterious organization that kidnapped Jimmy's parents is after him and he has no idea why. Except that it might have something to do with his new fighting capabilities. And the fact that he might not be entirely human.
352 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Robots, Spies

Book 5 of the Alex Rider series. When Alex learns that his father may have been an assassin for the most lethal and powerful terrorist organization in the world, Scorpia, his world shatters. Now Scorpia wants Alex on their side, and Alex no longer has the strength to fight them.
312 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

The true story of Washington's use of espionage in gathering intelligence to defeat the British in the Revolutionary War.
192 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  18th Century, Spies

Book 4 of the Alex Rider series. Alex investigates pop star Damian Cray whose new video game hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
256 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

Book 3 of the Artemis Fowl series. Ever the resourceful young criminal mastermind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete.
320 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Secret Codes, Spies

Book 3 of the Alex Rider series. Teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
240 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

Book 2 of the Alex Rider series. Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
215 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Spies

Book 2 of the Artemis Fowl series. In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Spies

Book 1 of the Artemis Fowl series. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
304 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Fairies, Secret Codes, Spies

Book 1 of the Alex Rider series. Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
2224 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Spies

Dylan's Scout troop goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes in, sweeping everyone and everything before it. The next hours are an amazing story of survival and the true meaning of leadership.
208 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Survival, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes

Book 2 of the Maximum Ride series. Max and her flock fly south on a quest to find their parents, after having rescued Angel and recovered secret documents about their origins. But just when they've finally escaped the claws of evil Erasers, they're discovered by an FBI agent and forced to face an even worse nightmare: going to school.
480 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Mutants, Survival, Flying People

Book 2 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. As the Kalaxx warriors close in on the hidden cove where they are stranded, Becca and Doug unearth a riddle linked to a 1533 painting, which may hold the key to the Guild's dark secrets and to finding their parents. But how can they solve the puzzle and escape with their lives before their enemies attack?
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Book 1 of the Guild of Specialists trilogy. While trying to find their missing parents, Doug and Becca encounter an ancient order of Chinese mercenaries, a brutal pirate warlord, a feisty Texan heiress, and a stolen cache of a volatile explosive called zoridium. By their saga's end, the duo has exposed a murderous plot involving their parents and uncovered a secret society hidden from the world for hundreds of years.
288 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  China, Pirates, Sea Adventures, Spies, Survival

Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow stows away on board Shakleton's ship bound to explore the Antarctic continent. Within months, the ship, trapped and crushed by ice, sank with no hope of rescue. If the men were to survive in the most hostile place on earth, they would have to do it on their own.
336 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Survival

Book 1 of the Maximum Ride series. Max and the rest of her "family", all 98% human and 2% bird as a result of a genetic experiment, must rescue the youngest member, Angel, who has been abducted by a group of mutant wolf-men.
480 pages Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Cloning, Mutants, Survival, Flying People

As fighting closes in on the village where Tiger's parents are aid workers, the three of them and native guide set out on a difficult journey to safety.
192 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Survival, Refugees, Drought

Discusses the events and personalities involved in the momentous Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.
61 pages, Grades 4 and up
related subjects:  Survival, World War II

It is two hundred thousand years ago. A group of children are cut off from their Kin when they are driven from their Good Place by violent strangers. While searching for a new Good Place, they face the desert, a volcano, a canyon flood, man-eating lions, and other Kin they have never seen before.
640 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Prehistoric Times, Survival, Volcanoes

Sequel to Hatchet. Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
112 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

A tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, Survival, World War II, Homelessness

Sequel to Hatchet. After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness several years earlier, sixteen-year-old Brian finds that he can't seem to fit into "civilization" but must return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
128 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

Six kids alone on a sinking ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean have to find a way to survive.
416 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Sea Adventures, Survival

A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
144 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Survival, World War II

Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, the year which would prove to be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. This is his definitive account of that day when five of his team were killed, and the sixth was so horribly frostbitten that his right hand had to be amputated.
320 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Survival

After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
224 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Jewish Holocaust, Survival, World War II

Sequel to Hatchet. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
144 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
208 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Survival

Book 8 of the Pendragon series. The leaders of Ibara are keeping a devastating secret from their people, one that gives Saint Dane all the opportunity he needs to launch his final assault on Halla.
560 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Yorsh, a young elf orphan, discovers he is part of a powerful prophecy connecting the last dragon and the last elf.
361 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Dragons, Warriors

Book 7 of the Pendragon series. Bobby must save the people of Quillan from being pawns in a cruel game.
496 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 6 of the Pendragon series. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu on Zadaa where the Traveler Loor lives as a member of the Batu. Together she and Bobby must work to thwart Saint Dane's efforts to destroy Zadaa.
416 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 5 of the Pendragon series. The inhabitants of Eelong are in danger of being wiped out by a mysterious plague. But if Bobby chooses to save Eelong he could endanger himself, his friends, and the future of every other being in Halla.
448 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 4 of the Pendragon series. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon arrives on this territory in pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, but all is peaceful on Veelox -- because it's deserted. The inhabitants have discovered a way to enter their own personal dream worlds, where they can be whoever they want, wherever they want.
384 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors

Book 3 of the Pendragon series. Bobby finds himself thrust beyond the boundaries of time and space into a place that seems somewhat familiar: First Earth. Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral, Spader, have flumed to New York City, 1937. Against a backdrop of gangsters, swing music, and the distant sound of a brewing war, the two must uncover the evil Saint Dane's newest plot.
352 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Parallel Universe, Warriors