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50+ Amazing Adventure Chapter Books for Boys

May 17, 2013 by Mommy Evolution 11 Comments

Read these 50+ amazing adventure chapter books for boys will help get the ball rolling to get kids into reading.

If you’re struggling to get your son into reading, you’re not alone.

Here is an extensive list of amazing adventure chapter stories to tap into their imagination and get them cracking open those books.

You can find these chapter books for boys at your local library or purchase through the affiliate links provided for your convenience.

Adventure chapter books for boys

50+ Amazing Adventure Chapter Books for Boys

It’s a common fact that girls read more than most boys.

Girls also score higher on reading assessments than most boys, too.

So how can we encourage boys to delve into a book and expand their reading?

Finding the right entertaining and engaging books will get them excited about reading!

Adventure Chapter Books for Boys

Westmark (The Westmark Trilogy)

A boy fleeing from criminal charges falls in with a charlatan, his dwarf attendant, and an urchin girl, travels with them about the kingdom of Westmark, and ultimately arrives at the palace where the king is grieving over the loss of his daughter.

The Iron Ring

Inspired by the classic mythology of India, virtuoso storyteller Lloyd Alexander creates dazzling visions of high adventure and deep humanity. 

The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen

Separated from his faithful servant, a prince finds himself fending off murderers, falling prey to trickery, and searching for a village girl who plays a magic flute.

It isn’t until he faces his most challenging personal trial that the heroic traveler fully realizes the astonishing power hidden in each humble gift.

Raleigh’s Page

Meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted, combining fictional characters with historical, Andrew’s tale offers up a vivid look at the cloak-and-dagger politics of the time and a genuine feel for what it must have been like for the first Europeans to set foot on the beautiful, bountiful, savage shores of America.

Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, Book One)

Best-selling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have turned back the clock and revealed a wonderful story that precedes J. M. Barrie’s beloved Peter Pan.

Chance Fortune in the Shadow Zone

Teeming with supervillains exiled by the Brotherhood of Heroes, the Shadow Zone is a land of nightmares brought to life.

When Psy-Chick, Gothika, Iron Maiden, and Private Justice are kidnapped by the mysterious Shadowmen, Chance knows that he must set aside his doubts in order to save them.

The Name of this Book Is Secret (The Secret Series, Book 1)

When intrepid investigators Cass and Max-Ernest set out to discover the history of the mysterious Symphony of Smells, they become embroiled in a dastardly experiment involving kidnapped children and the secret of eternal youth. 

The Telling Pool

Expertly told, The Telling Pool transports young readers to the days of the Crusades, magic sorcery and the land where legends were formed. 

A Week in the Woods

The fifth-grade Week in the Woods is a beloved tradition of Hardy Elementary, where Mark Chelmsley (the Fourth) is pretty much killing time before his parents send him off to an exclusive prep school.

Then Mark realizes the Week might be a chance to prove to his teacher  that he’s not just another of the slacker rich kids the teacher can’t stand.

Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Book 1)

Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has discovered a world below ground of armed and dangerous — and extremely high-tech — fairies.

He kidnaps one of them, Holly Short, and holds her for ransom in an effort to restore his family’s fortune.

But he may have underestimated the fairies’ powers.

MVP*: Magellan Voyage Project

Every kid’s dream is to be named as the most valuable player.

How many ever dream that the game is a race around the world (no flying allowed) in just forty days?

The 7 Professors of the Far North

When Sam visits Zara and Ben and their great-uncle, the quirky inventor Professor Ampersand, he never expects to embark on a fantastical adventure.

When Professor Ampersand and his group of professor friends are kidnapped by the evil Professor Murdo, it’s up to Sam, Zara, and Ben to save them.

The Land of the Silver Apples (Richard Jackson Books)

Sometimes magic doesn’t always do what one intends… especially when one is a bard-in-training. 

The Sea of Trolls

In the year 793, siblings Jack and Lucy are captured by fearsome Vikings with a thirst for battle and pillaging.

Taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless, Jack and Lucy are sent on a perilous journey – full of dragons and giant spiders – deep into the magical kingdom of the trolls!

My Side of the Mountain

Terribly unhappy in his family’s crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.

Getting Air

They can rule the half-pipe, but can they survive being stranded in the  middle of nowhere?

Far North

With winter fast approaching, and food running out, this family must all work together to keep from becoming trapped in the howling wilds.

Down the Yukon

As Dawson City goes up in flames, Jason Hawthorn itches to join the new rush for gold in Nome – nearly 2,000 miles away.

When a race to Nome with a $20,000 prize is announced, Jason and the girl he loves decide to attempt the journey together in their canoe.

The Maze

For the past four years, Rick Walker has been shuffled between foster care and group homes.

For Rick, life is a maze full of dead ends.

But when he is threatened at Blue Canyon and runs away, Rick finds himself in a real maze – the enormous rocky expanse of Canyonlands National Park in Utah. 

Eagle Strike (Alex Rider Adventure)

Sir Damian Cray is a philanthropist, peace activist, and the world’s most famous pop star.

Trouble is, only Alex Rider recognizes that it’s the world that needs saving from Sir Damian Cray. 

Voyage of Slaves (Castaways of the Flying Dutchman Series)

From the the New York Times bestseller author of Redwall and Angels of Command comes another swashbuckling tale about the cast of the Flying Dutchman pirate ship.

Alabama Moon

For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. 

After his father dies, the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true friends, and true enemies, he adapts his wilderness survival skills and learns to survive in the outside world, and even, perhaps, make his home there. 

The Wreckers (The High Seas Trilogy)

John Spencer is fourteen when his father’s ship, the ill-fated Isle of Skye, is shipwrecked on the coast of Cornwall as she makes for her home port. 

When John discovers that his father is alive but being held prisoner, he must try and rescue him — without knowing who can be trusted to help.

The Buccaneers (The High Seas Trilogy)

After 17-year-old John Spencer sets out on his first voyage to foreign lands, he and his crew are wary when they come across a stranger named Horn rowing a lifeboat in the middle of nowhere.

What is the man hiding?

Black Duck

It is spring 1929, and Prohibition is in full swing.

Ruben meets the daring captain of the Black Duck, the most elusive smuggling craft of them all, and it isn’t long before he’s caught in a war between two of the most dangerous prohibition gangs.

The Merchant of Death (Pendragon series)

D.J. MacHale’s New York Times bestselling middle grade fantasy series about Bobby Pendragon, a regular kid about to find himself and his two friends pulled into one epic adventure across worlds!

Tomorrow, When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series #1)

World War III becomes an unstoppable reality in the action-packed first installment of the Tomorrow series.

Shackleton’s Stowaway

Victoria McKernan deftly weaves the hard-to-fathom facts of this famous voyage into an epic, edge-of-your-seat survival novel.

Kensuke’s Kingdom

When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parents’ yacht, he struggles to survive on his own.

Following a close-run battle between life and death, the mysterious stranger – Kensuke – allows Michael into his world and they become friends, teaching and learning from each other, until the day of separation becomes inevitable.

The Squire’s Tale

Filled with rapier-sharp wit, jousting jocularity, and chuckleheaded knights, this is King Arthur’s court as never before experienced.

Hatchet

This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared — and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor.

Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Brian’s Winter

From three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen comes a beloved follow-up to his award-winning classic Hatchet that asks: What if Brian hadn’t been rescued and had to face his deadliest enemy yet–winter?

The Voyage Of The Frog

Fourteen-year-old David Alspeth is the owner of a 22-foot sailboat, an inheritance from his uncle Owen, who recently died of cancer.

On the return trip home he is caught unawares by a freak storm.

Stranded, with no compass, no radio, and only a few cans of food, it seems as if things couldn’t get any worse. But they do.

Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)

Swallows and Amazons, the book that started it all in 1930, introduces the Walker family, the camp on Wild Cat Island, the able-bodied catboat “Swallow”, and the two intrepid Amazons, plucky Nancy and Peggy Blackett. 

The Chaos Code

Matt and his friend Robin traverse the globe, battling terrifying sand creatures and mercenaries alike in their efforts to stop the chaos code from being activated – and dooming the modern world to a catastrophe not seen since the days of Atlantis.

The Wadjet Eye

Fast-paced and suspenseful, this compelling historical novel combines page-turning excitement with a well-researched portrait of the ancient world.

The Trap

Johnny’s grandfather has taken far too much time to check his trap lines in the Alaskan snow.

The old man is proud and stubborn, and determined to be as independent as ever.

But Johnny is right to worry – his grandfather has caught his foot in his own trap. Wolves, plummeting temperatures and sheer hunger all menace him.

Does he have enough wilderness craft, strength and survival instinct to stay alive?

Peak (A Peak Marcello Adventure)

After Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he’s left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention or go live with his long-lost father, who runs a climbing company in Thailand.

Peak quickly learns that his father’s renewed interest in him has strings attached.

The Sign of the Beaver

Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Honor-winning survival story is filled with wonderful detail about living in the wilderness and the relationships that formed between settlers and natives in the 1700s.

Call It Courage

Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.

First Light

This remarkable and acclaimed debut novel by the Newbery-winning author of When You Reach Me introduces readers to a captivating, hidden world below the ice… 

Kidnapped

Young David Balfour is cheated out of his inheritance by his uncle, who then has him kidnapped and forced into servitude on a sailing ship bound for a long voyage.

What follows is one of the most spellbinding stories ever written.

The Cay

For fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor’s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay.

Ice Drift

This thrilling new adventure story from bestselling author Theodore Taylor is a moving testament to the bond between brothers–and to the strength of the human spirit.

Blind Mountain

By turns suspenseful and poignant, Blind Mountain is a gripping story of survival.

It will appeal to all readers who enjoy a blend of well-developed characters and nail-biting action.

The Thief (The Queen’s Thief Book 1)

New York Times best-selling author Megan Whalen Turner’s entrancing and award-winning Queen’s Thief novels are rich with political machinations and intrigue, battles lost and won, dangerous journeys, divine intervention, power, passion, revenge, and deception. 

Around the World in 80 Days

Take a thrilling whirlwind trip around the world with Phileas Fogg!

When Fogg — a man of habit whose every day is just like the one before — makes a bet that he can circle the globe and be back in his men’s club in just 80 days, the race is on.

The Survivors

Two years ago, the ash started falling like gray snow and the volcanoes erupted.

For Miles and his sister, Sarah, the real disaster started in the violent aftermath — when they were forced to leave their cushy suburban home and flee to the north woods for safety.

Miles got them to a cabin, but now winter is setting in. 

Blue Fingers: A Ninja’s Tale

Blue Fingers, a suspenseful, action-packed coming-of-age story set in feudal Japan, offers an up-close look at this noble, fierce way of life.

The Rogues

When the laird brutally evicts all of the people in his Scottish village, Roddy Macallan, determined to get revenge and save his family, embarks on a dangerous quest to find a treasure his mother once told him about and teams up with a Robin Hood-esque rogue who roams the Highlands.

Like these chapter books for boys? Find even more engaging book lists for kids with more than 100 book-themed reading lists!

  1. Westmark (The Westmark Trilogy)  by Lloyd Alexander
  2. The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander
  3. The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen by Lloyd Alexander
  4. Raleigh’s Page by Alan W. Armstrong
  5. Peter and the Starcatchers: The Starcatchers Series Books 1-3 by Dave Barry
  6. Chance Fortune in the Shadow Zone (Adventures of Chance Fortune) by Shane Berryhill
  7. The Name of this Book Is Secret (The Secret Series) by Pseudonymous Bosch
  8. The Telling Pool by David Clement-Davies
  9. A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
  10. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
  11. MVP: Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans
  12. Seven Professors of the Far North by John Fardell
  13. The Land of the Silver Apples (Richard Jackson Books) by Nancy Farmer
  14. The Sea of Trolls (Sea of Trolls Trilogy) by Nancy Farmer
  15. My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) by Jean Craighead George
  16. Getting Air by Dan Gutman
  17. Far North by Will Hobbs
  18. Down the Yukon by Will Hobbs
  19. The Maze by Will Hobbs
  20. Eagle Strike (Alex Rider Adventure) by Anthony Horowitz
  21. Voyage of Slaves (Castaways of the Flying Dutchman) by Brian Jacques
  22. Alabama MoonChasing the Falconers (On the Run, Book 1) by Watt Key
  23. The Wreckers (The High Seas Trilogy) by Iain Lawrence
  24. The Buccaneers (High Seas Trilogy) by Iain Lawrence
  25. Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
  26. Pendragon (Boxed Set): by D.J. MacHale
  27. Tomorrow, When the War Began (The Tomorrow Series #1) by John Marsden
  28. Jim Davis by John Masefield
  29. Shackleton’s Stowaway by Victoria McKernan
  30. Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
  31. The Squire’s Tale (The Squire’s Tales) by Gerald Morris
  32. Count Karlstein by Philip Pullman
  33. Hatchet: 20th Anniversary Edition by Gary Paulsen
  34. Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen
  35. The Voyage Of The Frog (Apple signature) by Gary Paulsen
  36. Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller) by Arthur Ransome
  37. The Chaos Code by Justin Richards
  38. The Wadjet Eye by Jill Rubalcaba
  39. The Trap by John E. Smelcer
  40. Peak by Roland Smith
  41. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
  42. Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
  43. First Light by Rebecca Stead
  44. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
  45. The Cay by Theodore Taylor
  46. Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor
  47. Blind Mountain by Jane Resh Thomas
  48. The Thief (The Queen’s Thief, Book 1) by Megan Whalen Turner
  49. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
  50. The Survivors (Memory Boy) by Will Weaver
  51. Blue Fingers: A Ninja’s Tale by Cheryl Aylward Whitesel
  52. The Rogues by Jane Yolen

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Comments

  1. lifesallaboutlittleadventures says

    May 20, 2013 at 3:39 pm

    I love this post. Please link this up on Money Saving Monday so others can find this post! I hope I see you there.

    Stephanie

    Reply
  2. Jen says

    May 21, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    Wow Jenny! This is one serious list! I will definitely check this out. Since I have a boy, And I want him to read!

    Reply
  3. http://expatbrazil.co.uk says

    May 21, 2013 at 11:50 pm

    Any tips on getting a boy reading. i have a library of over 4000 books and in fact have many on that list especially the older ones. No matter what I do I just can’t get a genuine interest out of him, I can tell he’s tring for me but he has no real interest whatsoever. I feel sorry at what pleasure he’s missing, any suggestions would be great, thanks. He’s 10 by the way.

    Reply
  4. Nicci @ PowerfulMothering says

    May 24, 2013 at 8:04 pm

    What a nice collection!
    Thanks for sharing with us on Pin it Tuesdays! PowerfulMothering.com

    Reply
  5. lovebakesgoodcakes says

    May 28, 2013 at 12:43 am

    Having 2 pre-teen boys, I’m on my way to check out some of these books! Thanks so much for sharing at last week’s All my Bloggy Friends – Linda and I look forward to seeing what you share this week! 🙂

    Reply
  6. Alice (@mumsmakelists) says

    June 25, 2013 at 7:13 pm

    Fab list – looking forward to reading lots of these myself 🙂

    I would love for you to link up at this and some of your other book lists at the Mommy Archive – we’re focusing this week on favourite children’s books , Alice x

    Reply
  7. Dolores says

    July 7, 2014 at 10:15 am

    I invite everyone to look into Tony Abbott’s latest series, The Copernicus Legacy. The first book is entitled, The Forbidden Stone. It is best for ages 10 and up, even though the jacket says 8 and up. It has gotten excellent reviews from Kirkus and PW, and readers are finding it very exciting.
    Tony also has many other series that have proven enticing to reluctant readers, including The Secrets of Droon, The Haunting of Derek Stone, Underworlds, and his first series, Danger Guys, which is newly available in e-book format.
    He also writes serious, hardcover novels for young readers, including Firegirl, which is being taught in many schools bc it demonstrates compassion toward people who are different than ourselves, and The Postcard, which won the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award in 2009. Read more about Tony Abbott’s many exciting books at http://www.tonyabbottbooks.com and http://www.thecopernicuslegacy.com.

    Reply
  8. and girls says

    June 13, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    why just boys?

    Reply
    • Jennifer Hughes says

      June 14, 2015 at 9:51 am

      Because you didn’t look for the list for girls…. because as a girl, I wanted to read about strong female characters — not just what the boys were doing.

      https://mommyevolution.com/25-great-adventure-chapter-books-girls-2/

      Reply
  9. Sheila @ BrainPowerBoy says

    July 19, 2015 at 7:15 am

    Nice list, Jennifer. I am always looking for lists of books for boys to share. We have not read several of these titles so I will show the list to my son to see what he might want to read. Thanks! (pinned)

    Reply
    • Jennifer Hughes says

      July 19, 2015 at 3:20 pm

      Guess you have some new reading to do, Sheila! I’m working on some new books to get into the house as well. Can you believe my boys haven’t started the Harry Potter series? Too scary for one of them but I think we’re finally at a good age 🙂

      Reply

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