Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Explorer

Looking for read-alikes for The Explorer by Katherine Rundell? These 24 titles overlap in Jungle Animals, Trees & Forests, Caribbean & Latin America, and Camping & Outdoor Activities and overall literary texture.

Jungle Animals Trees & Forests Caribbean & Latin America Camping & Outdoor Activities Environment Survival Stories Science & Nature People & Places Friendship Classics Sports & Recreation Travel Social Themes Animals Action & Adventure Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to The Explorer

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Dust Storm!

Terry Lynn Johnson

Themes: Jungle Animals • Caribbean & Latin America • Environment

World Burn Down

Steve Cole

Themes: Jungle Animals • Caribbean & Latin America • Environment

Paradise on Fire

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Themes: Camping & Outdoor Activities • Environment • Survival Stories

The Lost Rainforest #2: Gogi’s Gambit

Eliot Schrefer

Themes: Jungle Animals • Trees & Forests • Caribbean & Latin America

Tree of Dreams

Laura Resau

Themes: Trees & Forests • Caribbean & Latin America • Environment

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

Themes: Trees & Forests • Science & Nature • People & Places

Robin Hood Aged 10 3/4

Ben Miller

Themes: Trees & Forests • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

Gorilla Dawn

Gill Lewis

Themes: Environment • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

Skeeter

Kay Smith

Themes: Camping & Outdoor Activities • Environment • Science & Nature

#10

Amazon Tale

Francisco Avalos

Themes: Trees & Forests • Caribbean & Latin America • Survival Stories

#11

The Great Kapok Tree A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

Lynne Cherry

Themes: Trees & Forests • Caribbean & Latin America • Environment

#12

The Long Way Around

Anne Nesbet

Themes: Trees & Forests • Camping & Outdoor Activities • Survival Stories

#13

The Contest

Gordon Korman

Themes: Camping & Outdoor Activities • Environment • Survival Stories

#14

Vivi Loves Science

Kimberly Derting

Themes: Camping & Outdoor Activities • Environment • Science & Nature

#15

Henry Climbs a Mountain

D. B. Johnson

Themes: Camping & Outdoor Activities • Environment • Science & Nature

#16

Survivor Girl

Erin Teagan

Themes: Camping & Outdoor Activities • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

#17

There Flies the Witch

Mayonn Paasewe-Valchev

Themes: Environment • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

#18

Sylvia Rose and the Cherry Tree

Sandy Shapiro-Hurt

Themes: Environment • Science & Nature • People & Places

#19

Storm Mountain

Tom Birdseye

Themes: Camping & Outdoor Activities • Survival Stories • People & Places

#20

Zahrah the Windseeker

Nnedi Okorafor

Themes: Jungle Animals • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

#21

Vanishing Act

Laura Martin

Themes: Camping & Outdoor Activities • Survival Stories • Friendship

#22

Elephant Secret

Eric Walters

Themes: Environment • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

#23

Pax, Journey Home

Sara Pennypacker

Themes: Environment • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

#24

Endling #3: the Only

Katherine Applegate

Themes: Environment • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for The Explorer by Katherine Rundell — spanning Jungle Animals, Trees & Forests, Caribbean & Latin America and featuring authors such as Terry Lynn Johnson, Steve Cole, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Eliot Schrefer, and others.