6 must-read adventure books like The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith

Cover of The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith

The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.93

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

After successfully thwarting a dastardly plan to steal rare marine animals from the sea around the …

If you liked the adventure plot in The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Victoria

By: Daisy Goodwin

3.93

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

“They think I am still a little girl who is not capable of being a Queen.”Lord Melbourne turned to … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Goodwin's Victoria book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"To be a queen, you have to be more than a little girl with a crown."

-Daisy Goodwin, Victoria

"Emma shook her head. “There are some things that a woman always keeps to herself."

-Daisy Goodwin, Victoria

"In the end to add to the sum of human knowledge is the only thing a man can be truly proud of."

-Daisy Goodwin, Victoria

"I was so happy … before.’ ‘I find that happiness can always be recollected in tranquillity, Ma’am,’ said Melbourne. Victoria put her hands down and looked up at him, her pale blue eyes searching his …"

-Daisy Goodwin, Victoria

Cover of The Best School Year Ever (The Herdmans #2) by Barbara Robinson

2. The Best School Year Ever (The Herdmans #2)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

The Worst Kids in the History of the World! When anything goes wrong at Woodrow Wilson Elementary S… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Robinson's The Best School Year Ever (The Herdmans #2) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • middle grade
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction

3. The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

By: Esther Hautzig

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

It is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemi… read more

Similar categories in Esther Hautzig's The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • fiction
Cover of Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (Alvin Ho, #1) by LeUyen Pham, Lenore Look

4. Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (Alvin Ho, #1)

By: LeUyen Pham , Lenore Look

3.41

Format: 549 pages,

Alvin Ho is an Asian American second grader who is afraid of everything--elevators, tunnels, girls,… read more

Similar categories in LeUyen Pham's Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (Alvin Ho, #1) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • middle grade
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Spy School (Spy School #1) by Stuart Gibbs

5. Spy School (Spy School #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.06

Format: None pages,

Can a normal, average kid become a superstar secret agent? Maybe not, but it'll be fun to watch him… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Gibbs's Spy School (Spy School #1) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
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6. The Lost Princess

By: George MacDonald , Bernhard Oberdieck , None

4.28

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

An enchanting, unforgettable fairy tale about two spoiled girls—a princess and a shepherd's daughte… read more

Similar categories in George MacDonald's The Lost Princess book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"To be conceited of doing one's duty is, then, a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it."

-George MacDonald, The Lost Princess

"People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are j…"

-George MacDonald, The Lost Princess

"Nobody who has not been tried knows how difficult it is; but whoever has come out well of it - and those who do not overcome never do come out of it - always looks back with horror, not on what she h…"

-George MacDonald, The Lost Princess

"Whether it is a good thing or a bad thing not to be afraid depends on what the fearlessness is founded upon. Some how no fear because they have no knowledge of the danger; there is nothing fine in th…"

-George MacDonald, The Lost Princess

7. Fish in a Tree

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The author of the beloved One for the Murphysgives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel … read more

Similar categories in Lynda Mullaly Hunt's Fish in a Tree book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

8. 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

Similar categories in Beth McMullen's Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

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9. The Eyes and the Impossible

By: Dave Eggers

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more

Similar categories in Dave Eggers's The Eyes and the Impossible book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

Cover of The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) by Anthony Horowitz

10. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

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11. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1)

By: Janae Marks

4.29

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Zoe Washington isn’t sure what to write. What does a girl say to the father she’s never met, hadn’t… read more

Similar categories in Janae Marks's From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"I’d already waited twelve years to speak to Marcus. How much longer would I have to wait for the truth?"

-Janae Marks, From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1)

Cover of Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2) by Anthony Horowitz

13. Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.05

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bests… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible."

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

"I would kill myself tomorrow and I would except for the one brightness in my life, the one dawn that gives me hope."

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

"The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus Pūnd]"

-Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)

Cover of Out of My Heart (The Out of My Mind Series) by Sharon M. Draper

14. Out of My Heart (The Out of My Mind Series)

By: Sharon M. Draper

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this sequel to Out of My Mind.Melody is a year olde… read more

Similar categories in Sharon M. Draper's Out of My Heart (The Out of My Mind Series) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6) by Ellis Peters

15. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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16. The Canyon's Edge

By: Dusti Bowling

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father g… read more

Similar categories in Dusti Bowling's The Canyon's Edge book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • adventure
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17. Words on Fire

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Words on Fire book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

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18. Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

By: Robert Hardman

3.92

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mai… read more

Similar categories in Robert Hardman's Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story. book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • audiobook
"He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King."

-Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

Cover of The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

19. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

By: Daniel Nayeri

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciti… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Nayeri's The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes."

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

"To everyone we love we give a knife. The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock. Nothing else can cut our hearts so deeply."

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

"Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in …"

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

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20. Brother's Keeper

By: Julie Lee

4.34

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Can two children escape North Korea on their own? North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-ol… read more

Similar categories in Julie Lee's Brother's Keeper book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith

21. The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.93

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

After successfully thwarting a dastardly plan to steal rare marine animals from the sea around the … read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2) book and Alexander McCall Smith's The Sands of Shark Island (School Ship Tobermory, #2)

  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • school
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • pirates
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

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4.19

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4.18

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Robert Thorogood

3.92

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