The Best Treasure Books for Kids

Every boy at Camp Green Lake digs one hole a day, five feet down and five feet across, and nobody will say what the Warden expects to find.

A dead sailor's sea chest gives up a chart marked with a red cross, and half the crew sailing out to find it already knows what is on the island.

A letter left in an attic promises a fortune to whoever can prove what happened in Lambert, South Carolina, in 1957.

To pay back the girl who traded away her dirt bike for him, Gus has one night to bring gold out of the Dead Frenchman Mine.

Swept off a raft into an underground river, an eleven-year-old surfaces in a cave system that already contains a body, a castaway, and a hoard.

Emma's family is famous for extraordinary destinies; hers arrives as an instruction to find a treasure lost in the town graveyard.

A Spanish galleon went down off the Florida coast three centuries ago, and twelve-year-old Fin thinks its gold can pay for his grandfather's care.

Tintin buys a model ship at a flea market; two strangers try to buy it off him within the hour, and the mast turns out to be hollow.

Six Victorian children decide that restoring the fallen fortunes of the House of Bastable is simply a matter of finding treasure, and begin by digging up the back garden.

Thea turns up at the newspaper office with a map to a buried treasure, and her brother Geronimo is on a boat before he can finish objecting.

Isaac dreams three times of a treasure buried under the bridge by the royal palace, so he walks the whole way to the capital to look.

One map, one boy, one dog, and a route that runs across a sea, a forest, a mountain, and a swamp before it reaches Pirate Frank.

Armed with a Super-Duper Treasure Seeker of his own design, Russell the sheep searches Frogsbottom Field for the treasure nobody has found.