Books about adventure and adventurers, fiction
7 books that US schools assign on this theme
A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry
Grades 4–6
Cracker Jackson
Betsy Cromer Byars
Grades 4–8
Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library
Eth Clifford
Grades 4–8
Nightmare Mountain
Peg Kehret
Grades 3–6
Running Out of Time
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Grades 3–8
Sparrow Hawk Red
Ben Mikaelsen
Grades 6–8
The Grand Escape
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Grades 3–5
