Adventure Books for Teens
Quests, pirates, thieves, survival, and more! MS = middle school readers GN = graphic novel (Updated Dec. 2024)
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Icarus
As part of a revenge scheme, Icarus steals priceless art from Mr. Black and replaces it with his father’s impeccable forgeries, but when he is caught by Mr. Black’s son Helios, he must befriend Helios if he wants to continue helping his father. MS
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Breath of the Giant
Sisters Iris and Sophia trek to the Lost Territories in the North to find the land of the Giants, where they hope to kill a Giant, collect its breath, and return to give it to their dead mother, who will live again. GN MS
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Somewhere in the Deep
Kress fights monsters to pay off her dead parents’ debts, but when they keep growing, she joins a dangerous mission to guard a search-and-rescue mission into the mines. Can she survive the horrors in the mines with a hostile crew at her back?
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Canto
Canto’s people have been enslaved for generations, their hearts replaced by clocks, and their names taken away. When slavers damage a girl’s clock, Canto resolves to cross vast distances to find her heart. GN MS
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So Let Them Burn
When she was twelve, Faron successfully liberated her people from the dragon-riding colonizers, but now that she’s seventeen, she must help her older sister Elara break a bond with a dragon before the colonizers begin a new war on their people. MS
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The Revenant Games
Hoping to resurrect her sister, Bly joins the Revenant Games, an annual contest between warring witch and vampire kingdoms. Can she and her dying friend Emerson play the enemies off each other and win both the life of her sister and his immortality?
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King of Dead Things
Eli’s unique magical abilities and Malcolm’s deep but dangerous death magic unite them to save Malcolm’s mother and locate a deadly weapon that can eat magic.
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The Shadow Road
After dragon-like creatures descend upon earth and destroy civilization, survivors Thomas and Cassie meet and embark on a quest to steal and study one of the dragons’ eggs. MS
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A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic
In 1914 England, American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to join an expedition to Antarctica, but when the crew is marooned in the icy wasteland, she must focus on survival before women’s rights.
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In the Tunnel
Just sixteen, Myung-gi is carrying a rifle as a member of the South Korean army, heading into the enemy north to find his dissident father as war breaks out around him. MS
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