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Fly Away Home (1996)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
A girl has to help geese follow an artificial migration route in a small aircraft. The story uses landmarks, planned stops, and weather to make the trip more than a stunt. It starts with a bereavement and has gentle stretches between moments of danger.
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
7.0/10on IMDb
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A young inventor leaves his family’s Montana ranch on his way to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. Crossing the country by freight train makes the distance feel real. The trip is his decision, so it suits viewers who want more of the young traveler’s point of view.
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Nim's Island (2008)
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
A girl whose father has gone missing at sea has to manage a remote island she knows far better than her would-be rescuer. When help comes from the outside, it’s Nim who understands how to move around her home. Pick it for a younger child who wants the kid to be the capable one.
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
6.9/10on IMDb
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Four teenagers go from puzzling over a game to moving through its jungle in the bodies of their avatars. One person can read the map, and the others have very different abilities, so no single teenager can pick and take the route alone. The action and jokes skew older.
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Swallows and Amazons (2016)
6.1/10on IMDb
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The children maneuver a boat to an island, land, and work out who else has staked a claim to it. The 2016 version gives a grounded sailing adventure an element of espionage. Read the lake as part of the story instead of just the setting for a vacation.
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
5.9/10on IMDb
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A teenager and his friends travel across the United States looking for pearls that can help them get home from their final stop. Familiar landmarks take on a second purpose as clues in a myth. Choose the 2010 film for its road-trip version of the quest.
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
5.7/10on IMDb
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A teenager puts a coded message together with details from several adventure books, which gives a group the basis for its route. Once on the island, its exaggerated animals and unpredictable terrain make old notes less reliable than they seemed at home.
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Explorers (1985)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
A child’s dreams supply unusually practical clues, and a group of kids works out what the drawings let them build. The journey gets its direction from a plan they test themselves. Pick it for backyard experiments and an increasingly strange trip beyond them.
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Time Bandits (1981)
6.9/10on IMDb
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A boy travels with a band that has a map showing openings in time. Understanding what the map does gives him some power to make choices despite being the youngest person around it. This is a strange and darker comedy with some frightening turns.
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Moana 2 (2024)
6.3/10on IMDb
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Moana leads a newly assembled crew into waters most of them have never crossed. A call from her ancestors can give her a destination, while reading the ocean and paying attention to her crew are what keep the journey possible. The storms and monsters make for a bigger adventure than a quiet sailing story.
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The NeverEnding Story (1984)
7.3/10on IMDb
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A boy reads about a young traveler who has to cross Fantasia in search of a way to save it. Atreyu chooses how to approach a swamp and several gates that send travelers back or change them. It includes a famously upsetting moment involving a horse.
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Return to Oz (1985)
6.7/10on IMDb
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Dorothy returns to a much less welcoming Oz and works out new routes with a different set of companions. A path that looks familiar does not guarantee what she expects at its end. The Wheelers and a palace of unusual rooms make it darker than the 1939 film.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
6.5/10on IMDb
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Children have to work out which parts of a new house and its grounds can protect them against creatures they did not know existed. An illustrated field guide gives them information about the hazards. The threats are more intense than the cozy family setting suggests.
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Spy Kids (2001)
5.7/10on IMDb
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Two siblings learn that their parents’ everyday life was a cover, then follow clues and secret transport to a rescue. Their mistakes matter because the gadgets don’t tell them who to trust or what route to take through an unfamiliar base.
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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
5.3/10on IMDb
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The siblings go to an island where technology gives them much less help than expected. They have to make their way past unfamiliar creatures and remember the reason they set out. It is more of a lost-world adventure than the first movie.
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Wolfwalkers (2020)
8.0/10on IMDb
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Robyn has to get from a walled town into a forest adults have taught her to fear. Mebh helps her learn how the woods feel to someone who knows them. Follow how Robyn chooses whom to trust and where to go each time the path between the two worlds stops being simple.
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Earth to Echo (2014)
5.7/10on IMDb
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Friends on bicycles follow clues from their phones to figure out where a strange signal is leading. The mostly child-level view makes ordinary suburban distances feel large. Choose it for a modern way of reading a map with some found-footage camera movement.
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
8.1/10on IMDb
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A teenage Viking learns to fly and sees places his community could not reach from the ground. His decisions about following a dragon, working out where the others live, and returning with news turn flight into a route he has to understand. The battles can be intense.
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Ponyo (2008)
7.6/10on IMDb
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When the water covers local roads, Sōsuke and Ponyo set out in a little boat. A route they know from walking looks different from the surface of the flood. The scene is mostly gentle, with the danger of a separated family visible underneath the fantasy.
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The Cat Returns (2002)
7.1/10on IMDb
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Haru and her guides have to work out an exit from a kingdom whose rules keep changing underneath her. Moving through rooms and finding a way up a tower become necessary once it’s hard to leave as a human. The talking cats keep the danger from overwhelming the story.
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Song of the Sea (2014)
8.0/10on IMDb
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Ben and Saoirse travel back toward the coast after they’re sent to the city. A song and the places they stop connect physical routes to the stories their family has been avoiding. Young viewers may be upset by the separation and some of the owl imagery.
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