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10 best books like The World's Greatest Adventure Machine (Frank L. Cole): The Farwalker’s Quest, Wake Up Missing, Sign of the Green Dragon, Shutter, Vol. 1: Wanderlost, The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle, The Ogre of Oglefort, The Adventures of Blue Avenger, Day of the Scarab, Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh, Highway to Hell

The Farwalker’s Quest
AuthorJoni Sensel
ISBN1599902729
A classic fantasy quest about finding the truth and finding yourself.

Ariel has always been curious, but when she and her best friend Zeke stumble upon a mysterious old telling dart she feels an unexplained need to figure out what it means. Magically flying great distances and only revealing...
Wake Up Missing
AuthorKate Messner
ISBN0802723144
Meet Quentin, a middle school football star from Chicago...
Sarah, an Upstate New York girls’ hockey team stand-out...
Ben, a horse lover from the Pacific Northwest...
And Cat, an artistic bird watcher from California.

The four have nothing in common except for the head injuries...
Sign of the Green Dragon
AuthorC. Lee McKenzie
Three plucky sleuths. A crumbling skeleton. A buried treasure.

After six months in a new school, Sam’s finally fitting in. He’s the one kid with enough talent to hit the winning home run and bring the baseball trophy back to Haggarty Elementary. But Sam’s guardian is shipping him off...
Shutter, Vol. 1: Wanderlost
AuthorJoe Keatinge
ISBN1632151456
INDIANA JONES FOR THE 21st CENTURY! Marvel Knights: Hulk and Glory writer Joe Keatinge teams up with artist extraordinaire Leila del Duca for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining the urban fantasy of Fables and the globe-spanning adventure of Y: The Last Man. Kate Kristopher,...
The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle
AuthorChristina Uss
A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country.

Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister Wanda, announces that Bicycle is going to attend a camp where she will learn to make friends, Bicycle says no...
The Ogre of Oglefort
AuthorEva Ibbotson
ISBN0230746470
So, it seems that my first Eva Ibbotson is her last, which is very sad, because this book was great.

I loved the characters, and the story, and the randomness, and the fact that it's a children's book in which a little boy in it actually contemplated (and thankfully rejected!) murder. When do you...
The Adventures of Blue Avenger
AuthorNorma Howe
ISBN0064472256
On his sixteenth birthday, David Schumacher changes his name to Blue Avenger. . .

And things start to happen. Within twenty-four hours, David becomes a national hero, starts dating an extraordinary girl named Omaha Nebraska Brown, and bakes an imperfect pie. And that's not all. A tiny sow...
Day of the Scarab
AuthorCatherine Fisher
ISBN0060571632
How will their struggle end?

Madness reigns in the Two Lands. General Argelin has proclaimed himself king and is systematically destroying all enemies -- humans . . . and gods.

Mirany, the young priestess, is in hiding.

Alexos, the boy who should be ruler, is powerless.

Seth...
Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh
AuthorR.L. LaFevers
ISBN0547390181
In this fourth book in the series, Theodosia sets off to Egypt to return the Emerald Tablet—embedded with the knowledge of some of the ancient world’s most guarded secrets. Accompanied by her cat, Isis (smuggled along in a basket), Theo plans to return the artifact, then explore the mysteries surrounding...
Highway to Hell
AuthorRosemary Clement-Moore
ISBN0385734638
Maggie Quinn was expecting to find plenty of trouble with Lisa over Spring Break. Give a girl a bikini, a beachfront hotel, and an absent boyfriend, and it’s as good as a road map to the dark side. But Maggie doesn’t have to go looking for trouble. Trouble has started looking for her. One dead cow and...
Spera, Volume 1
AuthorJosh Tierney
ISBN1936393301
WELCOME TO THE LAND OF SPERA

Lono's life as a princess consisted of sitting, reading, and dreaming--until the day Pira, princess of a neighboring kingdom, arrived with news of a waking nightmare! With the help of Pira's best friend--a fire spirit in the form of a dog named Yonder--the princesses...
The Bravest Woman in America
AuthorMarissa Moss
ISBN1582463697
Ida Lewis loved everything about the sea, so when her father became the official keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island, she couldn’t imagine anything better.

Throughout the years, Ida shadowed her father as he tended the lighthouse, listening raptly to his stories about...
The Collector
AuthorK.R. Alexander
ISBN1338212249
Josie always liked visiting her grandmother in the countryside. But when her mother loses her job in the city and they're forced to relocate along with Josie's sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn't like the country that much. Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange rules: Don't bring...
Skipping the Scales
AuthorPete Tarsi
The exciting sequel to the YA contemporary fantasy Flipping the Scales!

Meredith, Marina, and Hailey’s wildest dreams could be coming true.

Two weeks in the ocean changed Meredith’s life and career goal. Now studying marine biology, she lands a summer internship at a local...
Rocket Girl #1
AuthorBrandon Montclare
A teenage cop from a high-tech future is sent back in time to 1986 New York City. Dayoung Johansson is investigating the Quintum Mechanics megacorporation for crimes against time. As she pieces together the clues, she discovers the “future” she calls home – an alternate reality version of 2013...
Keeper of Reign
AuthorEmma Right
ISBN1939337690
Sixteen year old Jules Blaze, heir of a Keeper, suspects his family hides a forgotten secret. It's bad enough that his people, the Elfies of Reign, triggered a curse which reduced the entire inhabitants to a mere inch centuries ago. All because of one Keeper who failed his purpose. Even the King's Books,...
Swept Up by the Sea: A Romantic Fairy Tale
AuthorTracy Hickman
ISBN1609076613
Determined to seek his fortune, Percival Taylor leaves behind his sleepy hometown and sets out to become a legendary pirate only no one at the roguish seaport of Blackshore will allow him anywhere near a ship! Percival must find other means to win the heart of the beautiful Tuppence Magrathia-Paddock,...
The Wrong Side of Magic
AuthorJanette Rallison
ISBN1250074282
The Phantom Tollbooth gets a modern-day spin in this magical middle grade fantasy filled with adventure and humor that will whisk readers away!

Hudson Brown stopped believing in magic long ago. That is, until the day he is whisked away to the magical land of Logos by a curious compass given to...
The Emerald Ring
AuthorDorine White
ISBN1462111335
Ordinary tween life turns upside down when Ancient Egypt intrudes on modern middle school life. Twelve year old Sara Guadalupe Bogus reads about adventures, but unexpectedly is drawn into one when a mystical emerald ring that once belonged to Cleopatra becomes stuck on her finger.
A series of...
From Ash and Stone
AuthorJulie Daines
ISBN1524407461
Lady Margaret Grey of Hartfell wants for nothing. The daughter of a knight, she has a loving family, wealth, and even a secret romance with the blacksmith's son. But all that is torn from her one fateful night when her home is attacked and her family killed. She is left with nothing but bitterness, an unwavering...
The Exodus Towers
AuthorJason M. Hough
ISBN0345537149
The Exodus Towers features all the high-octane action and richly imagined characters of The Darwin Elevator—but the stakes have never been higher.
 
The sudden appearance of a second space elevator in Brazil only deepens the mystery about the aliens who provided it: the Builders. Scavenger...
Evolution
AuthorTeri Terry
Into the fire ...The final part of the trilogy from multi award-winning author Teri Terry. Shay has followed Xander and joined his mysterious scientific cult at their remote Scottish compound. She's desperately searching for Callie, who went missing before the start of the epidemic that kills 95%...
The Iron Hound
AuthorTim Akers
ISBN1783299509
No Sophomore jinx here. Tim Akers delivers on the promise of THE PAGAN NIGHT with the 2nd volume in the Hallowed War. The Celestial Church continues its pogrom against the peoples and the GODS of all pagan religions with no care or worries about the devastation to the world that they will leave in their...
The Kind Folk
AuthorRamsey Campbell
ISBN1848634994
It involved a mountain so high that the clouds would nest there while they whispered to one another. At those times nobodyfrom the village in the foothills would venture near the mountain, until one day an orphan boy found a hidden path. As he made the final ascent the clouds came down to gather about him....
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