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Adventure Stories
Adventure stories often involve a journey and plenty of action and danger.

Picture books

 * **//Jumanji// by Chris Van Allsburg:** Kids find a mysterious board games that unleashes the dangers of the jungle.
 * **//The Secret Shortcut// by Mark Teague:** Two boys have an adventure on their way to school.
 * **//Zathura// by Chris Van Allsburg:** Two boys start playing a board game that takes them into outer space.

Chapter books

 * **//Bone// series by Jeff Smith:** The three Bone cousins have adventures with Thorn and Grandma Ben fighting rat creatures and other dangers.
 * **//The Cay// by Theodore Taylor:** A boy is heading back to the U.S. from South America when he is shipwrecked on a small island with a old man.
 * **//My Side of the Mountain// by Jean Craighead George:** A boy runs away from home because he wants to try living off the land on a piece of wilderness owned by his grandfather.