Learning Resources

Chapter books and middle-grade novels where exploration drives the plot — robots adapting to wild islands, children navigating the Amazon, young explorers in fantastical polar landscapes. The set supports sustained independent reading at the upper-elementary level and unit work on adventure as a genre, character resilience, environmental themes, and the relationship between humans and the unknown. Spans realistic survival fiction, fantasy adventure, and series-based mystery.

A picture-book collection that introduces young readers to exploration as a way of noticing, wondering, and discovering. Stories range from a child's encounter with a bear cub to an Indigenous girl mapping her rainforest home, modeling curiosity as a stance toward the world.

Nonfiction guides and reference books that frame exploration as something children can practice — building shelters, identifying flora and fauna, mapping unfamiliar places, surveying global wonders. The set bridges narrative and informational reading and supports STEM units, project-based learning, and outdoor-education programs. Includes both highly visual reference works and skills-based field guides.

Illustrated biographies that introduce upper-elementary readers to the people behind some of history's most demanding expeditions. Students encounter Tom Crean's three Antarctic voyages, Shackleton's survival on the Endurance, and Hillary and Norgay's ascent of Everest. The set supports social studies units on exploration, geography, and historical context, and ELA work on biography as a genre, perseverance, leadership, and the limits of human endurance.