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I just finished an ARC of Emilie and the Sky World by Martha Wells, sequel to last year's Emilie and the Hollow World.
These are great adventure stories for the younger (or young-at-heart) readers - they're published by Strange Chemistry, which is Angry Robot's YA imprint, but going strictly by "feel", I'd classify them as more middle-grade/tween than really YA.
Anyway, these are pretty good adventures (action/exploration) in the vein of Jules Verne or Arthur Conan Doyle's Challenger stories, except that they're set in a world that quite obviously isn't supposed to be our Earth as we know it, so it's sort of fantasy with a science fiction-y feel.
There really is a lack of "girl adventure" books of this sort, i.e. with a girl as the protagonist, so I've been very happy to find them - I gobbled down all the boys' adventures as a kid, and I loved them (still do), but I do have a soft spot for adventurous girls getting to have adventures and explore stuff, too!
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