9 Top adventure books like Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1) by Stuart Gibbs

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Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.33

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

From author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a new series about the world’s youngest and smart…

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1. Vanished! (Framed, #2)

By: James Ponti

4.49

Format: 289 pages,

Florian Bates—the only kid on the FBI Director’s speed dial and several international criminals’ mo… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's Vanished! (Framed, #2) book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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2. Framed! (T.O.A.S.T. Mystery #1)

By: James Ponti

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Kindle Edition

Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial and several international criminals' most… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's Framed! (T.O.A.S.T. Mystery #1) book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook

3. Greetings from Witness Protection!

By: Jake Burt

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family … read more

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4. Masterminds (Masterminds, #1)

By: Gordon Korman

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Gordon Korman comes a thrilling new middle grade trilogy about a group of k… read more

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5. Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls

By: Beth McMullen

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A girl discovers her boarding school is actually an elite spy-training program, and she must learn … read more

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6. Slugfest

By: Gordon Korman

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School. So good, in fact, that's he's already been pla… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Slugfest book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. How to Become a Planet

By: Nicole Melleby

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For Pluto, summer has always started with a trip to the planetarium. It’s the launch to her favorit… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Melleby's How to Become a Planet book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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8. City Spies (City Spies #1)

By: James Ponti

4.31

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose h… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's City Spies (City Spies #1) book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Justice doesn’t require a membership card. Just a sense of right and wrong."

-James Ponti, City Spies (City Spies #1)

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9. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's The Lost Year book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Fort

By: Gordon Korman

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five fri… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's The Fort book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Partridge's Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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14. Trapped! (Framed, #3)

By: James Ponti

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“A top-shelf test of courage, friendship, and ingenuity.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Floria… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's Trapped! (Framed, #3) book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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15. The Mystery of Locked Rooms

By: Lindsay Currie

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Mystery of Locked Rooms book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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16. Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.33

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

From author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a new series about the world’s youngest and smart… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1) book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • thriller
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • audiobook
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17. The Liars Society (The Liars Society #1)

By: Alyson Gerber

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY bestseller! Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the pr… read more

Similar categories in Alyson Gerber's The Liars Society (The Liars Society #1) book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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18. Lasagna Means I Love You

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Library Binding

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more

Similar categories in Kate O'Shaughnessy's Lasagna Means I Love You book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria

By: Muhammad Najem

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Mu… read more

Similar categories in Muhammad Najem's Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • middle grade
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20. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

By: Susan Hood

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hood's Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • middle grade
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21. Hummingbird

By: Natalie Lloyd

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Lloyd's Hummingbird book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's A Duet for Home book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Falling Short

By: Ernesto Cisneros

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. Isaac and Marco a… read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Cisneros's Falling Short book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Tryout (The Tryout #1)

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

STAND TALL. BE LOUD. GAME FACE ON. When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and … read more

Similar categories in Christina Soontornvat's The Tryout (The Tryout #1) book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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25. Shine On, Luz Véliz!

By: Rebecca Balcárcel

4.28

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful coming-of-age story for fans of Front Desk and Merci Suárez Changes Gears , this book c… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Balcárcel's Shine On, Luz Véliz! book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The self is not discovered, but created."

-Rebecca Balcárcel, Shine On, Luz Véliz!

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26. The Golden Hour

By: Niki Smith

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Deep & Dark Blue comes a tender graphic novel, perfect for our time, that ge… read more

Similar categories in Niki Smith's The Golden Hour book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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27. Weird Kid

By: Greg Van Eekhout

3.73

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Jake Wind is trying to stay under the radar. Whose radar? Anyone who might be too interested in the… read more

Similar categories in Greg Van Eekhout's Weird Kid book and Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook

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Vanished! (Framed, #2)

James Ponti

4.49

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James Ponti

3.70

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Slugfest

Gordon Korman

4.24

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How to Become a Planet

Nicole Melleby

4.25

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Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

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Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

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Dan Gemeinhart

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