School holidays usually make us think about travel and adventure, but as we reach the end of this COVID year , the only sort of travel and adventure most of us will experience is to be found in books. And the great thing about the Book Village Digital library is that it never closes.
We have chosen 10 books from our library that will take you, wherever you are, to worlds of adventure, mystery and survival.
1. Jock of the Bushveld
A classic South African adventure, travel story of the smallest, bravest and best pup of the litter is Jock of the Bushveld (based on the film and written by Lesley Beake). Set in the 1870’s when hopeful gold diggers are streaming into South Africa and opportunities, dangers and crooks lie around every corner.
2. Magic Tree House Collection
Readers from ages 6-10 can adventure through history with Jack and Annie with the help of spellbinding books and a tree house filled with mysterious powers.
3. Dogtective William Series
Children will love reading the thrilling adventures of 12 year old South African, Adrian and his four-legged detective hero, rescue dog William, described as a cross between Hercule Poirot and Paddington Bear. Read their adventures as they investigate rhino poaching in the Bushveld, diamond theft in Namibia and the theft of a celebrity pet in New York.
4. Mission Survival Series by Bear Grylls.
Meet Beck Granger, fearless traveller and youngest survival expert, and follow his explosive adventures. From the Colombian jungle to the frozen wilderness of Alaska to the Sahara desert, Beck Granger has the skills to make it out alive.
5. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Audiobook
The heroine in this breathtaking tale of murder and mutiny on the high seas is 13 year old Charlotte Doyle who finds herself the lone passenger on the long voyage from England to Rhode Island in 1832.
6. Wild Robot Series
Audiobook
What happens when technology and nature collide? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. Can she survive in the wilderness?
7. I Will Always Write Back
Audiobook
The compelling, true story of the correspondence between a Zimbabwean boy and an all-American girl that started as a class assignment and developed into a friendship that changed both their lives.
8. Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo
Audiobook
“I was there on the quayside to see Allie take her out for the first time, saw her dancing through the waves, and I knew I’d never built a finer boat.”
Inspired by the history of English orphans transported to Australia after World War 2, it is an adventurous, life affirming novel in two parts.
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
This is easily the most popular series in the library.
Join Greg and his family on their surprise road trip in The Long Haul, or in The Getaway, when the family go on a tropical holiday, where everything that can go wrong does.
10. The Adventures of Tin Tin
Whilst we don’t have Tintin in our library yet, we just couldn’t leave him out. Tintin is surely the most intrepid travelling book character of all time. Tintin and Snowy visited dozens of countries, real and fictional, in all five continents and even went into space during their 23 adventures.
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