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The name of this book is secret

2007
Cassandra and Max find a missing magician's notebook and start to investigate the fire which burnt down his house and his mysterious "symphony of smells.".

Rainstorm

2007
In this wordless picture book, a boy finds a mysterious key which leads him on an adventure one rainy day.

Peter and the shadow thieves

2006
Peter must visit London to help his friend Molly and her family of starcatchers locate the missing starstuff, leaving the boys on Mollusk Island at the mercy of Hook.

The Indian in the cupboard

1980
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.

So you want to be an explorer?

2005
Studies some of the great explorers throughout history including Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, Chuck Yeager, Barbara Washburn, Amelia Earhart, and many more.

The secret of the Indian

1989
In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups' discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the Old West which the cupboard enables them to enter.

Jack London

a life of adventure
1992
A biography of the American novelist and short story writer who sought and wrote about adventure.

The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg

2009
Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army.
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Mariel of Redwall

1993
The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs.
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The Iliad

2004
Presents a retelling of Homer's classic Greek epic of Helen, Queen of Sparta, who is taken by Paris, a Trojan prince, inaugurating the Trojan War and is written for the fifth through eighth-grade classroom.
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