Books like Stowaway by Karen Hesse

In 1943 Copenhagen, ten‑year‑old Annemarie Johansen helps her Jewish friend Ellen Rosen escape Nazi persecution, learning courage and resilience while navigating war‑time hardships.

Treasure Island is Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure about a boy’s coming‑of‑age journey on a ship, featuring the iconic Long John Silver and shaping modern notions of pirates, treasure maps and tropical island tales.

Phileas Fogg wagers he can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, a daring quest that unfolds into a globe‑spanning adventure.

Three teenagers from different eras and continents embark on perilous journeys to escape war, persecution, and tyranny, each facing drowning, bombings and betrayal, yet their stories converge, showing that hope endures across time and borders.

Junior, a budding cartoonist from the Spokane Indian Reservation, transfers to an all‑white farm‑town high school, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Stuart Little, a tiny mouse born to a human family, embarks on an adventurous quest to find his missing feathered friend, exploring New York City and beyond.

In "The Quillan Games," a desperate land spins its fate on brutal contests overseen by Veego and LaBerge—physical duels, obstacle courses, and virtual trials—where victory crowns a king and defeat means death.

Pendragon and Courtney journey across diverse worlds to rescue Mark and prevent Saint Dane from emptying all of Halla.

Stranded on a South Sea island, Laura seeks freedom from a controlling couple after her guardian’s death. When a merchant vessel called the Sea Wind arrives, she makes a desperate bid for escape by stowing away aboard.

Young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, a notorious women’s concentration camp. In that brutal setting, she discovers hope through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.

Peter Duck is the third book in the Swallows and Amazons series, featuring the old sailor Peter Duck and the pirates chasing them to recover buried treasure.

A ten‑year‑old boy in the Stalinist Soviet Union idolizes his Communist father, only to have him taken away by the police, leaving Sasha homeless and forced to rethink his values and beliefs about the regime.

In The Rivers of Zadaa, young Traveler Bobby Pendragon follows the manipulative Saint Dane into the drought‑stricken realm of Zadaa, where he and the fierce Batu warrior Loor must uncover a plot to destroy the land and its warring tribes.

"In San Francisco Bay there was a United States Navy base called Port Chicago. During World War II, it was a busy port where young sailors--many of them teenagers--loaded bombs and ammunition into ships bound for American troops in the Pacific. Like the entire Navy, Port Chicago was strictly segregated. All the officers giving orders were white; all the men loading bombs were black. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked Port Chicago, killing 320 servicemen and injuring hundreds more. But the truly remarkable part of the story was still to come. Surviving black sailors were taken to a nearby base and ordered to return to the same exact work. More than 200 of the men refused unless the unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. The sailors called it standing up for justice. The Navy called it mutiny and threatened that anyone not immediately returning to work would face the firing squad. Most of the men agreed to back down. Fifty did not. This is a dramatic story of prejudice and injustice in America's armed forces during World War II, and a provocative look at a controversial group of young sailors who took a stand that helped change the course of history"--Jacket flap. In July 1944, an explosion at a California navy base killed hundreds of sailors loading munitions. Fifty black seamen, refusing to resume work in unsafe conditions, were charged with mutiny. The text contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs.

Michael phenomenally recalls his escape from an underground compound, struggling with flashbacks that only a mysterious girl named Cameron seems to understand.

Little Joe, eleven, hatches a daring plan to reach his father in Mexico by stowing aboard a cruise ship disguised as a tourist family.

A nine‑year‑old from North Carolina journeys to the sea in 1716, intending to be a sailor, but quickly finds himself aboard a pirate ship.

Carlito, an eleven‑year‑old boy in Spanish‑owned Monterey, California, finds his quiet life shattered when the Argentinian privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard and his pirate ships launch an attack in 1818, thrusting him into a world of danger and adventure.