LibraryAware TEEN HIGH: Adventure

We have picked some of our favorite Adventure stories. These titles are classified as Teen High (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.

Jumper
by Melanie Crowder

Accepted into the Forest Services class of smokejumpers, 19-year-old wildland firefighter Blair Scott takes unnecessary risks to prove herself and struggles to cope when everything rages wildly out of control.

Shuri.
by Nnedi Okorafor

Shuri, princess of Wakanda, has one of the bravest souls and most brilliant minds in the whole Marvel-Verse--and these are the tales that prove it! Whether she's wearing the cowl of the Black Panther to take on A.I.M. and prove her mettle to a Wakandan challenger, or pitting her wits against the mutant Forge in a high-tech race, Shuri knows how to get the job done--and have fun. That's why she is her brother T'Challa's most dependable ally, aiding him in battle against deadly threats! But when Shuri returns from near-death with mystical new abilities, what comes next? How about a meeting of the geniuses with Riri Williams, a.k.a. Ironheart?"

The Stern Chase
by John Flanagan

After the Iberians raid the harbor, stealing or destroying as many ships as they can, the Herons take the only ship that survived and race after their enemy, letting nothing stand in the way of taking down these pirates and pursuing justice.

One for All
by Lillie Lainoff

Finally finding a place where she belongs, Tania de Batz, a girl with a chronic illness secretly training as a Musketeer, must decide where her loyalties lie when she is torn between duty and dizzying emotion.

Youngbloods
by Scott Westerfeld

Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom, she observes, has a way of destroying things. As the world is propelled further into conflict and conspiracy, Frey and Tally join forces to put a check on the people in power, while still trying to understand their own power and where it belongs.

A Clash of Steel
by C. B. Lee

In this thrilling YA remix of the classic adventure Treasure Island, Xiang joins the mysterious Anh and her crew in pursuit of a fabled treasure when a tiny map scroll is discovered in her plain gold pendant.

Take Me Home Tonight
by Morgan Matson

Sneaking away from their suburban homes to spend a night in New York City, theater kids Kat and Stevie endure misadventures involving broken phones, family drama, old flames, terrible plays, crashed parties and a world-class museum.

Ashfall Legacy
by Pittacus Lore

Sixteen-year-old half-alien Sydney Chambers leaves Earth to seek his long-missing father, and unearths a devastating, centuries-old secret about humanity.

The Curie Society
by Janet Harvey

An action-adventure original graphic novel, The Curie Society follows a team of young women recruited by an elite secret society--originally founded by Marie Curie--with the mission of supporting the most brilliant female scientists in the world. The heroines of the Curie Society use their smarts, gumption, and cutting-edge technology to protect the world from rogue scientists with nefarious plans. Readers can follow recruits Simone, Taj, and Maya as they decipher secret codes, clone extinct animals, develop autonomous robots, and go on high-stakes missions.

The Last Legacy
by Adrienne Young

With a forbidden romance to contend with and dangerous work ahead, 18-year-old Bryn Roth must win everyone’s trust if she wants to take her place in the delicate architecture of her family as they rise to power.

Be Not Far From Me
by Mindy McGinnis

Feeling more at home in the woods than under a roof, Ashley finds the limits of her survival abilities tested when a betrayal and an accident strand her in untracked territory.

The Light at the Bottom of the World
by London Shah

Enduring a subterranean existence beneath the ruins of a submerged London at the end of the 21st century, a teen joins a prestigious submersible race in the hope of clearing her father’s name before unexpected corruption exposes devastating truths.

The Red Scrolls of Magic
by Cassandra Clare

The best-selling author of Lady Midnight and the award-winning author of The Lives of Tao present the first book in a new series in which High Warlock Magnus Bane and his Shadowhunter boyfriend, Alec Lightwood, combat a Parisian cult that Magnus accidentally founded years earlier.

Into the Dark
by Claudia Gray

Forced to leave behind his beloved Jedi Temple archives for a mission on the undeveloped frontier, padawan Reath Silas and his traveling companions are knocked off course by a galactic event and forced to shelter in an abandoned space station, where strange things begin to happen.

Hawk
by James Patterson

Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight.

Not If I Save You First
by Ally Carter

After six years of no word from her best friend, Logan, he shows up on the doorstep of the remote Alaskan cabin Maddie and her father live in with an assailant in pursuit.

King of Scars
by Leigh Bardugo

When the dark magical force within him challenges his effort to forge new alliances and build a defense against a new threat, Nikolai Lantsov, the young king of Ravka, embarks on a journey to his country's most magical places to vanquish it.

A Blade So Black
by L. L. McKinney

By day, Alice juggles a slipping GPA, a high-maintenance best friend, and an overprotective mom, but by night she heads to the dark realm known as Wonderland to battle monstrous creatures to save her mentor.

An Ember in the Ashes
by Sabaa Tahir

Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.

Ascent
by Roland Smith

Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.