Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson - Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, befriending a Starcatcher whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust

Doll bones by Holly Black - Friends from a Pennsylvania middle school embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl

The wild robot by Peter Brown - Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there

My side of the mountain by Jean Craighead George - A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains

A dastardly plot by Christopher Healy - In 1883 New York, while trying to introduce her mother's flying machine to the men-only Inventors' Guild, twelve-year-old Molly uncovers a plot to destroy the World's Fair

The phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster - A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell - Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance

The adventures of a girl called Bicycle by Christina Uss - Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend