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Travel & Exploration Middle Grade – Wonderlit | Wonderlit

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Travel & Exploration Middle Grade

Explore middle grade books about travel & exploration for children.

115 books

Cover of The Secret City

Thea Stilton #4

The Secret City

The Thea Sisters trek through the Andes Mountains to find a missing archaeologist and solve the ancient mystery of a hid

Cover of The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

A family trip from Michigan to Alabama in the summer of 1963 changes the Watsons forever as they face the realities of t

Cover of Big Trouble in the Big Apple

Thea Stilton #8

Big Trouble in the Big Apple

Between training for the marathon and eating pizza, the Thea Sisters must track down a culprit threatening to destroy a

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Cover of Refugee

Refugee

Alan Gratz

Three children from different eras—1930s Germany, 1990s Cuba, and 2015 Syria—undertake harrowing journeys in a desperate

Ages 9–14

Cover of The Tropical Treasure

Thea Stilton #22

The Tropical Treasure

Five mouse sisters find an old pirate map in the Bahamas and race across the Caribbean Sea to find the treasure before a

Cover of Aloha, Baby-Sitters!

The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special #13

Aloha, Baby-Sitters!

While the sitters soak up the sun in Hawaii, they work together to share every moment with Mallory so she doesn't miss o

Cover of The Madagascar Madness

Thea Stilton #24

The Madagascar Madness

The Thea Sisters travel to Madagascar for adventure camp, only to find themselves hunting down a thief who is stealing e

Cover of The Ice Cream Machine

The Machine Series #1

The Ice Cream Machine

Meet a robot nanny, a mechanical prodigy, and a penguin running a boardwalk stand in six wild stories all centered aroun

Cover of Another Day

Rhiannon’s world shifts when she learns the person who gave her one perfect day wasn't actually her boyfriend, but a str

Cover of Never Say Genius

The Genius Files #2

Never Say Genius

Thirteen-year-old twins Coke and Pepsi must dodge assassins at famous landmarks while their family road trip turns into

Cover of The Great Tulip Heist

Thea Stilton #18

The Great Tulip Heist

When a famous botanist vanishes in the Netherlands, the Thea Sisters race through windmills and canals to find him and s

Cover of Amelia Bedelia Road Trip!

Amelia Bedelia Chapter Books #3

Amelia Bedelia Road Trip!

Everything is taken literally when young Amelia Bedelia hits the road for a family vacation full of silly linguistic mix

Cover of Fudge-a-mania

Summer vacation gets wild when five-year-old Fudge decides his big brother's rival is the perfect person to marry, turni

Cover of Crime in the Crypt

A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #13

Crime in the Crypt

Evidence points toward Ruth Rose's grandmother after a vase is stolen from a Brooklyn cemetery, forcing three friends to

Cover of The Riddle of the Ruins

Thea Stilton #28

The Riddle of the Ruins

At an ancient excavation site in Hierapolis, the Thea Sisters suspect a major archaeological find might actually be a cl

Cover of Squirm

Florida Middle Grade Novels #6

Billy’s summer becomes a wild race across the country involving spy drones, grizzly bears, and a desperate mission to sa

Cover of The Blue Scarab Hunt

Thea Stilton #11

The Blue Scarab Hunt

The Thea Sisters hunt for the Treasure of the Sun in Egypt, but they must outsmart a group of thieves to keep the ancien

Cover of Baby-sitters on Board!

The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special #1

Baby-sitters on Board!

Pack your bags for the ultimate road trip to Florida and the Bahamas as the sitters juggle summer romances, secret admir

Cover of Goes South

Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley heads to Mexico on a high-stakes mission to stop the CIA's most dangerous enemy, the evil o

Cover of Surf's Up, Geronimo!

Geronimo Stilton #49

Surf's Up, Geronimo!

Elisabetta Dami

Geronimo Stilton’s dream of a relaxing beach vacation disappears when he checks into a crumbling hotel instead of a luxu

Cover of School-Tripped

Babymouse: Tales from the Locker #3

Jennifer L. Holm

Babymouse is loose in the Big City on an unsupervised middle school field trip, but a plan to ditch the museum might lea

Cover of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg

Claudia and Jamie run away from home to live inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, turning a famous New York landmark i

Cover of The Legend of the Fire Flowers

Thea Stilton #15

The Legend of the Fire Flowers

The Thea Sisters are ready for a hula festival in Hawaii until they realize the stage is on a volcano that is about to e

Cover of The Castle Crime

A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #6

The Castle Crime

The Queen's jewels are missing from Windsor Castle, and it is up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to hunt for clues that Sco

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