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About our children's action and adventure books
Dive into action and adventure with classic children’s adventures books like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle and Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. Young adventurers can join Leonora Bolt as she tries out new inventions, while those slightly older can sail with sky pirates in The Edge Chronicles series, go to a mythical and dangerous land in Tahereh Mafi’s Furthermore and delve into a true story with Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. No special kit is needed for these adventures, just a daredevil nature.