Read-alikes and related books

Books like Captain Kidd’s Treasure (Unsolved)

If you loved Captain Kidd’s Treasure (Unsolved) by Dinah Williams, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Exploration & Discovery, Adventure & Adventurers, Pirates, and Juvenile Nonfiction.

Top related books to Captain Kidd’s Treasure (Unsolved)

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Lost in the Antarctic The Doomed Voyage of the Endurance

Tod Olson

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

The World of Pirates

Philip Steele

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

Land Ho! Fifty Glorious Years in the Age of Exploration

Nancy Winslow Parker

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

Call of the Klondike A True Gold Rush Adventure

David Meissner

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance

Jennifer Armstrong

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

Real Pirates The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship

Barry Clifford

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Pirates • Juvenile Nonfiction

Pirates A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon

Mary Pope Osborne

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Pirates • Juvenile Nonfiction

Shackleton The Boss

Michael Smith

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki

Deborah Kogan Ray

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#10

Survival True Stories

Tom McCarthy

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#11

Explorers Amazing Tales of the World’s Greatest Adventurers

Nellie Huang

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#12

Trapped in Antarctica! Nickolas Flux and the Shackleton Expedition

Nel Yomtov

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#13

1,500 Sticker Fun History

Joshua George

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#14

The Boss The Remarkable Adventures of Ernest Shackleton, Heroic Antarctic Explorer

Michael Smith

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#15

Encounter

Jane Yolen

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Pirates • Juvenile Nonfiction

#16

Wrecked A Deep Dive Into the World’s Most Famous Shipwrecks

Rebecca Siegel

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#17

Women Who Led the Way Great Explorers and Adventurers

Mick Manning

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#18

Marooned in the Arctic The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the “female Robinson Crusoe&#8221

Peggy Caravantes

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#19

What Was the Age of Exploration?

Catherine Daly

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#20

Shackleton’s Boat Journey

Frank Arthur Worsley

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#21

Ten of the Best Adventures on the Seas

David West

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

#22

Pirates

Will Osborne

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Pirates • Juvenile Nonfiction

#23

The Pirateology Handbook A Course in Pirate Hunting

William Lubber

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Pirates • Juvenile Nonfiction

#24

Amundsen and Scott’s Race to the South Pole

Liz Gogerly

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Adventure & Adventurers • Juvenile Nonfiction

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Exploration & Discovery, Adventure & Adventurers, Pirates — the same threads that run through Captain Kidd’s Treasure (Unsolved) by Dinah Williams. Among the authors featured: Tod Olson, Philip Steele, Nancy Winslow Parker, David Meissner, and others.