Adventure, Exploration & Outdoor Kids Fiction

Updated April 20, 2023
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Beyond the bright sea
Wolk, Lauren
Paper Book
'Harper Lee has a worthy successor. Wolk is a big new talent' - The Times Crow has lived her whole life on a tiny, starkly beautiful island. Her only companions are Osh, the man who rescued her from a washed-up skiff as a baby and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their...
Pax
Pennypacker, Sara
Paper Book
The moving story of the extraordinary friendship between a boy and his fox and their epic journey to be reunited. Beautifully illustrated by multi-award winner, Jon Klassen. Now available in Paperback! Pax was only a kit when his family was killed and he was rescued by 'his boy', Peter....
Hello universe
Kelly, Erin Entrada
Paper Book
Winner of the 2018 Newbery Medal. This is a funny and poignant story about unexpected friendships.
Wildwood
Meloy, Colin.
Paper Book
Prue McKeel is keeping out of trouble. Or trying to. Then her baby brother is abducted by crows and hauled off to the woods beyond the city. It is up to Prue to bring him back. On her mission she is plunged into the world of Wildwood and there she meets more trouble - and magic - than she ever...
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
Paper Book
A full-colour paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with full-colour cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. Four adventurous siblings--Peter,...
James and the giant peach
Dahl, Roald.
Paper Book
James's aunts call him names, beat and starve him and make his life a misery. If only his parents hadn't been eaten by an escaped rhinoceros, he wouldn't be in this mess. But one day he meets a man who gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues and so begins the adventure of his dreams.
The wild robot
Brown, Peter
Paper Book
A gloriously illustrated story of a robot's adventures in the wild

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