Best Adventure Series for 7 and 8 year olds

Best Adventure Series for 7 and 8 year olds

It's a tricky business finding the perfect book to hand children aged 7 and 8. They're mostly independent readers, but they're still developing their vocabulary, fluency and comprehension skills. They are also starting to use other media, explore new hobbies and tackle school friendships and the complexities that come with getting older. 

Books about adventures are a great way to not only keep developing those reading skills, but also growing a lifelong passion for stories. If you want your 7- or 8-year old on the edge of their seat, turning page after page, you will need epic journeys, heists, chases, found family and high-octane endings! 

So with this in mind, and with no further ado, here are some of our top-rated adventure series to get you started. Series are a brilliant tool to keep your reader engaged in the story as they grow attached to the characters and understand the world, and they stick with us for life.

Toppsta
2026-03-14
Best Adventure Series for 7 and 8 year olds
Book pages The Island Vet Series

The Island Vet Series

For all animal lovers aged 7+, The Island Vet series is the perfect black-and-white illustrated series to get familiar with independent reading while meeting so many animal species. Welcome to Gull Haven Island, where Tia's mum just got a new job as a vet! And there is no shortage of animals that need help here! Together with her mum, Tia works hard to help all animals, from sickly cows and newborn seal pups to even the most mysterious of species. Devil Bird Island is the latest book in the series out on 2nd Jan 2025

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Book pages Dreamweavers Series

Dreamweavers Series

If you're a fan of Laura Ellen Anderson, Star Friends, Peanut Jones or Witch for a Week, you absolutely will not want to miss out on this brilliant chapter book fantasy adventure series, with black-and-white illustrations throughout. 


In the series main characters Tito and Neena go on nocturnal adventures through people's dreams. They are in fact dreamweaving, exploring dreams where quirky creatures called jinn roam. But dreamweaving is no light endeavour: dreams can take over the waking world, leading to nothing but chaos.

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Book pages Agents of the wild Series

Agents of the wild Series

For lover of animals and the planet, Agents of the Wild is a brilliantly fun-packed two-colour illustrated young fiction with wildlife conservation themes for readers aged 7+. 


In the books, 8-year-old Agnes is signed up for SPEARS (the Society for the Protection of Endangered and Awesomely Rare Species). Paired with her elephant-shrew mentor Attie (short for “Attenborough”), in each book she will find herself travelling to remote locations, from rainforests to iced-over worlds, to look after and save endangered animals.

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Book pages Keisha Jones Series

Keisha Jones Series

A black-and-white fully illustrated chapter books about taking action for justice in our world. 


We love these books because they empower children to take action for causes they believe in, small and big. Main character Keisha Jones fights for what is right in each book, whether it's to help little bunnies or to save the trees in her local park. She even forms an activism club called the Bee Squad with two of her best friends. 

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Book pages The Breakfast Club Adventures Series

The Breakfast Club Adventures Series

England International footballer, child-poverty campaigner and now bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE has come up with the perfect series for readers who love a little bit of gentle horror and humour in their reads! 


When 12-year-old Marcus receives a mysterious invitation to join the Breakfast Club Investigators, little does he know that so many adventures await... and there are strange, curious cases that need solving! They will have to use their wit, nerve and all their courage to solve some of the creepiest, weirdest and WILDEST mysteries their town has ever seen.

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Book pages Mr Penguin Series

Mr Penguin Series

The creator of the Claude books has done it again! Alex T. Smith brings us Mr Penguin, a brand new hero, adventurer and ... penguin, with this brilliant two-colour early chapter book series for readers aged 6+. 


Mr Penguin has a thing for mysteries, and thanks to the help of his right-hand man, Colin, a small detective spider, he always solves them. In each book, laughs among readers are guaranteed as the two characters go on exciting adventures together to find treasures, missing pets, and kidnapped friends...

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Book pages How to Train Your Dragon Series

How to Train Your Dragon Series

Join Hiccup and Toothless as they go on fantastical adventures featuring dragons, pirates and ancient evil beasts, in this best-selling series from Cressida Cowell. 
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe and that means, to his constant dismay, Hiccup is his heir. To be initiated into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe, Hiccup and ten other novices must train their dragons...

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Book pages Flyntlock Bones Series

Flyntlock Bones Series

Ahoy, matey! Welcome aboard The Black Hound, an unruly ship with the fast-paced and adventurous black-and-white illustrated chapter book about two children joining a pirate's crew! 


Meet Captain John Hamish Watkins and his pirate crew: Briggs the quartermaster, Fishbreath the cook, Master Hudson the ship's Bosun, the riggers Drudger, Snitch and Dedweard, and last (but not least) Red, the girl rigger who becomes Flynn's friend and ally on board. These pirates are unlike any other: they find lost treasures and RETURN them to their rightful owners. 

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Book pages Beast Quest Series

Beast Quest Series

Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series! 


When an evil wizard enchants the magical Beasts of Avantia, only a true hero will be able to free them. When all hope seems lost, a young boy named Tom takes up the quest for the king and sets out to save Avantia. Packed full of adventure, strategy and fantastical creatures, this best-selling series follows Tom as he journeys through Avantia. 

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Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher (Puffin)

Colour Fiction by various authors (Little Tiger Press)

Conkers (Barrington Stoke)

Dream Team by Tom Percival (Macmillan)

Famous Five by Enid Blyton (Hachette)

Goth Girl by Chris Riddell (Macmillan)

Griffin Gate by Vashti Hardy (Barrington Stoke)

Harley Hitch by Vashti Hardy (Scholastic)

In Time Series by Sally Nicholls (Nosy Crow)

Jack Stalwart by Elizabeth Singer Hunt (Puffin)

Jake Atlas by Rob Lloyd Jones (Walker)

Knights and Bikes by Garielle Kent and REx Crowle (Knights Of)

Ottoline by Chris Riddell (Macmillan)

Seaview Stables Adventures by Tracey Corderoy (Simon & Schuster Childrens Books)

The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton (Hachette Children's Books)

The Curious Science Quest by Julia Golding (Lion Hudson)

The Dinosaur Detectives by Stephanie Baudet and Illary Casasanta (Sweet Cherry)

The Incredible Dadventure by Dave Lowe (Bonnier)

The Legend of Kevin by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntrye (OUP)

The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood by Farhana Islam and Simran Diamond Singh (Farshore)

The Story of Greenriver by Holly Webb and Zanna Goldhawk (Hachette)

The Tindims by Sally Gardner and Lydia Corry (Zephyr)

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Hachette)

Time Travel Twins by Josh Lacey and Garry Parsons (Andersen)

Varjak Paw by SF Said (David Fickling)

Yesterday Crumb by Andy Sagar and Marine Gosselin (Hachette)

Diary of a Minecraft Zombie by Zack Zombie (Zack Zombie Publishing and Birch Tree Publishing)

Toppsta
2026-03-14
Best Adventure Series for 7 and 8 year olds

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