# Adventure books about adventure and adventurers

**7** adventure books that explore adventure and adventurers, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Genre:** Adventure  ·  **Theme:** adventure and adventurers
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf

## Adventure adventure and adventurers reading list

- [Jaguar](https://readinglist.school/book/jaguar) by Roland Smith _(Grades 3–5 · pub 1997)_
- [Loot](https://readinglist.school/book/loot) by Jude Watson _(Grades 3–8 · pub 2014)_
- [Sheep](https://readinglist.school/book/sheep) by Valerie Hobbs _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2006)_
- [Sparrow Hawk Red](https://readinglist.school/book/sparrow-hawk-red) by Ben Mikaelsen _(Grades 6–8 · pub 1993)_
- [The End of the Beginning](https://readinglist.school/book/the-end-of-the-beginning) by Avi _(Grades 4–8 · pub 2004)_
- [The Grand Escape](https://readinglist.school/book/the-grand-escape) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(Grades 3–5 · pub 1993)_
- [Zoobreak](https://readinglist.school/book/zoobreak) by Gordon Korman _(Grades 4–6 · pub 2000)_

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