Children's Fiction that features a Search of Some Kind

Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Outcasts
• Crow is an outcast in her community because people believe she is an orphan from a leper colony, so Crow searches for her origins.

The Exact Location of Home by Kate Messner 

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 5 to 7 interest
• Zig is searching for his father through geocaches. 

The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-6 interest
• Farah and her friends are searching for Farah's little brother in a game. 

Granted by John David Anderson

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Wishes 
• A fairy gets a chance to grant her first wish, but it's not as easy as she thought it would be. First she has to find the coin that contains the wish.

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Only Children, Summer vacation
• Candice spends her summer searching for a mysterious fortune that may or may not exist. 

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Only Children 
• Paloma and her mom spend a month in Mexico, and Paloma solves a mystery. 

Everything Else in the Universe by Tracy Holczer

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Summer Vacation, Only Children, Military/Veteran, Historical Fiction
• Lucy's dad is home from Vietnam, but that doesn't mean everything is back to normal.