# Adventure books about nature

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

**Reading levels:** Lexile measures range from 1020L to 1020L across these 3 titles.

**Genre:** Adventure  ·  **Theme:** nature
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://achievethecore.org/page/2699

## Adventure nature reading list

- [Hatchet](https://readinglist.school/book/hatchet) by Gary Paulsen _(1020L · Grades 5–8 · pub 1987)_
- [Race for the Ruby Turtle](https://readinglist.school/book/race-for-the-ruby-turtle) by Stephen Bramucci _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2023)_
- [The River](https://readinglist.school/book/the-river) by Gary Paulsen _(Grades 5–8 · pub 1991)_

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