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Adventure Stories
3rd through 5th Grade | Middle School

3RD THROUGH 5TH GRADE
Perloo the Bold
by Avi
J FICTION AVI

Perloo, a peaceful scholar who has been chosen to succeed Jolaine as leader of the furry underground people called the Montmers, finds himself in danger when Jolaine dies and her evil son seizes control of the burrow.

 

The Incredible Journey
by Shelia Every Burnford
Y PAPERBACK BUR

Following their instincts, three pets, a Siamese cat, and old Bull Terrier, and a young Labrador retreiver, travel across the Canadian wilderness. They soon realize that only by working together can they survive the 250 mile journey and find their family.

 

I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X
by Bruce Coville
J FICTION COV

 

Rod and his bratty cousin Elspeth are snatched into another dimension by the monstrous alien Smorkus Flinders.
The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
Y FICTION FLE

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

 

Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
J FICTION FOR

After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

 

A Murder for
Her Majesty

by Beth Hilgartner
Y FICTION HIL

When Alice Tuckfield witnesses her father's death, she flees to York. Afraid the men who killed her father were working for Queen Elizabeth and will now be looking for her, she must hide in a boy's choir and keep from being discovered.

 

Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves
by Carol Hughes
Y FICTION HUG

Having fallen from his father's airship, Jack blunders into a feud between a pirate ship and a deadly ocean-going war machine and encounters danger, intrigue, and treachery.

 

Dark Portal
by Robin Jarvis
Y FICTION JAR

While on a rescue mission, a few daring mice journey below to the sewers to an evil world ruled by the rat Jupiter, who rules the other rats through terror.

 

MIDDLE SCHOOL
The Drackenberg Adventure
by Lloyd Alexander
Y FICTION ALE

In 1873 seventeen-year-old Vesper Holly and her guardians travel to an obscure European grand duchy, where their archenemy Dr. Helvitius is pursuing a lost art treasure and engineering the country's annexation by a neighboring kingdom.

 

Flight #116
is Down

by Caroline B. Cooney
Y PAPERBACK COO

 

Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a plane crash on her family's property, and the experience changes her life forever.
The Minstrel's Tale
by Berit Haahr
Y FICTION HAA

When betrothed to a repulsive old man, thirteen-year-old Judith runs away, assumes the identity of a young boy, and hopes to join the King's Minstrels in fourteenth-century England.

 

Stowaway
by Karen Hesse
Y FICTION HES

A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor, which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.

 

Boston Jane
by Jennifer L. Holm
Y FICTION HOL

Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

 

Point Blank
by Anthony Horowitz
Y FICTION HOR

Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps

 

The Wreckers
by Iain Lawrence
Y FICTION LAW

Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.

 

The Pirate's Son
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Y FICTION MACC

Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.

 

Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
Y FICTION PAU

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

 

The Guns of Easter
by Gloria Whelan
Y PAPERBACK WHE
It is 1916 and Europe is at war. Twelve-year-old Jimmy loves the glory and the British Army for which his father is fighting. But when the war comes to his own streets, Jimmy's loyalties are divided between his father and his uncle, one of the rebels occupying the government offices in Dublin.

 

 

 

 

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