7 Top adventure books like The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum

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The Enchanted Island of Yew

By: L. Frank Baum

3.82

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Before her eyes appears a handsome young knight: Prince Marvel. Setting out in search of adventure,…

If you liked the adventure plot in The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

1. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something m… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Why didn't they ask the Evans?"

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"A woman would know all right about her own husband."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Cover of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

2. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.68

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"It's very difficult to phone people in China, Mr President,' said the Postmaster General. 'The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

Cover of Pinocchio by John Boyne, Unknown, Monteiro Lobato, Carlo Collodi

3. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

Cover of Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1) by Terry Pratchett

4. Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.41

Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Ahh! They're all just pins!"

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar."

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"

-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

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5. The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth G… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1) by Brandon Dorman, Chris Colfer

6. The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)

By: Brandon Dorman , Chris Colfer

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

The first book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Timesbestselling series The Land of Stories about two … read more

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  • fairy tales
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy

7. Grampa in Oz (Book 18)

By: L. Frank Baum , John R. Neill , Ruth Plumly Thompson

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Return to the wonderful world of Oz, in which King Fumbo of Ragbad loses his head in a storm and Pr… read more

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8. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)

By: Helene Wecker

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling jo… read more

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9. A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3)

By: Brandon Dorman , Chris Colfer

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Brothers Grimm have a warning for the Land of Stories. Connor Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adve… read more

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10. Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of… read more

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11. Ringworld's Children (Ringworld, #4)

By: Larry Niven

3.73

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to a world like no other. The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 … read more

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12. The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, #1)

By: Dodie Smith , Michael Dooling

4.00

Format: None pages,

From the back of the case: "Puppies and more puppies! How will they all escape the evil Cruella de … read more

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13. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

Cover of Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1) by Eleanor H. Porter

14. Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

By: Eleanor H. Porter

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live."

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"„ în loc de a scoate la iveală greșelile unui om, vorbește-i de calitățile sale încearcă să-l scoți din făgașul obiceiurilor lui rele, deșteaptă eul său cel mai bun, adevăratul său eu care poate îndr…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - '…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

"Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in th…"

-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)

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15. The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.90

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • literature
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Mark my trail..."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Each dog barks in its own yard."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

16. Pollyanna Grows Up (Pollyanna #2)

By: Eleanor H. Porter

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The sequel to Pollyannafinds the effervescent orphan on the verge of womanhood. Her crippled legs c… read more

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17. A Dram of Poison

By: Charlotte Armstrong

4.62

Format: 290 pages,

A longtime bachelor finally loves--only to suffer corrosive jealousy For five decades, Kenneth Gib… read more

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18. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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Cover of Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4) by Douglas Preston

19. Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4)

By: Douglas Preston

4.31

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bests… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1) by Luanne G. Smith

20. The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

By: Luanne G. Smith

4.06

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

In Victorian England a witch and a detective are on the hunt for a serial killer in an enthralling … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Never ask a question you don't want to know the answer to."

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"[S]ometimes it's necessary to put one foot on each side of the law to walk a straight line."

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"[W]hat made them contrary was their apathy towards other people's opinions about them. Well, outward appearances were one thing. Inside, with only each other to confide in, they felt the cold shoulde…"

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

"The finality of a person's life confounded the ego. How could a body and mind that walked, talked, and had brilliant, witty thoughts suddenly cease to be? How could a body shrug off its mortal coil a…"

-Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell (Conspiracy of Magic, #1)

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21. The Crane Husband

By: Kelly Barnhill

3.88

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerf… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Your mother doesn't know these things,"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then …"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"My dad told me stories of weavers who stitched the world and spun fortunes and pulled on strings to change someone's fate. Was there a string I could pull to stop my father from dying? Was there a pa…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

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22. Thistlefoot

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.96

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"what is a memory if not a ghost?"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."

-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

Cover of The Andromeda Evolution (Andromeda, #2) by Daniel H. Wilson

23. The Andromeda Evolution (Andromeda, #2)

By: Daniel H. Wilson

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. A… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of She-Hulk, Vol. 1: Jen, Again by Rainbow Rowell

24. She-Hulk, Vol. 1: Jen, Again

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.93

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The best character ever is back in her own series and about to glam up the whole Marvel Universe! J… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of X-Men Red, Vol. 1 by Al Ewing

25. X-Men Red, Vol. 1

By: Al Ewing

4.12

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Who can save the red planet? The mutants of Arakko spent millennia scarred by war — but on the worl… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Masquerade in Oz by Bill  Campbell

26. Masquerade in Oz

By: Bill Campbell

3.86

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

In this sidesplitting romp, Scraps -- the Patchwork Girl of Oz -- accidentally casts a spell over t… read more

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27. The Enchanted Island of Yew

By: L. Frank Baum

3.82

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Before her eyes appears a handsome young knight: Prince Marvel. Setting out in search of adventure,… read more

Similar categories in L. Frank Baum's The Enchanted Island of Yew book and L. Frank Baum's The Enchanted Island of Yew

  • fairy tales
  • classics
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • literature
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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28. The Giant Garden of Oz

By: Eric Shanower

3.92

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

When the vegetables in Uncle Henry and Aunt Em's garden grow unusually large, Dorothy discovers tha… read more

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  • fantasy
  • childrens

17 best-selling fiction books like The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum

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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie

3.91

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.68

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Pinocchio

John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

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Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)

Terry Pratchett

4.41

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Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

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Pinocchio

John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

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