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Across Exploration & Discovery, Thrillers & Suspense, Action & Adventure, and Historical — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as One Wrong Step by Jennifer A. Nielsen.

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Top related books to One Wrong Step

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

Hunt for the Golden Scarab — M. G. Leonard

Hunt for the Golden Scarab

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Thrillers & Suspense • Action & Adventure

Torn — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark, by George Shannon — Kate McMullan

My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark, by George Shannon

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Treasure Island A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic — Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic

Robert Louis Stevenson

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The After-Room — Maile Meloy

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

We Are Not Eaten by Yaks — C. Alexander London

We Are Not Eaten by Yaks

C. Alexander London

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Curse of the Ancients — Matt de la Peña

Curse of the Ancients

Matt de la Peña

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

I Sailed with Columbus — Miriam Schlein

I Sailed with Columbus

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Shackleton’s Stowaway — Victoria McKernan

Shackleton’s Stowaway

Victoria McKernan

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Max Tilt: 80 Days or Die — Peter Lerangis

Max Tilt: 80 Days or Die

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Encounter — Jane Yolen

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Frank’s Great Museum Adventure — Rod Clement

Frank’s Great Museum Adventure

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The Sea of the Dead — Barry Wolverton

The Sea of the Dead

Barry Wolverton

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

A Whale of the Wild

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The Island of Lost Horses — Stacy Gregg

The Island of Lost Horses

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The Jules Verne Collection (Boxed Set) Journey to the Center of the Earth; Around the World in Eighty Days; In Search of the Castaways; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Mysterious Island; From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon; Off on a Comet — Jules Verne

The Jules Verne Collection (Boxed Set) Journey to the Center of the Earth; Around the World in Eighty Days; In Search of the Castaways; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Mysterious Island; From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon; Off on a Comet

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The Secret Explorers and the Sunken Treasure — SJ King

The Secret Explorers and the Sunken Treasure

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Once Upon Another Time — Charles Ghigna

Once Upon Another Time

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The Legend of Viking Thunder — M. G. Leonard

The Legend of Viking Thunder

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The Time Machine Next Door: Artists and a Disappearing Dog — Iszi Lawrence

The Time Machine Next Door: Artists and a Disappearing Dog

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Marco? Polo! #16 — Jon Scieszka

Marco? Polo! #16

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

The Apprentices — Maile Meloy

The Apprentices

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

Bone Talk — Candy Gourlay

Themes: Exploration & Discovery • Action & Adventure • Historical

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with One Wrong Step by Jennifer A. Nielsen. Connected by Exploration & Discovery, Thrillers & Suspense, Action & Adventure. Authors featured include M. G. Leonard, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Daniel Defoe, Kate McMullan, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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