Houghton Mifflin, 2000
While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, young Henry Thoreau walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature and the time to think great thoughts. Includes biographical information about Thoreau.
Hog music, by Mary-Claire Helldorfer
Viking, 2000
Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift
that Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to
her family's farm in Illinois. Reading Level: 2.4; Accelerated Reader:
4.6
Journey, by Sarah Stewart
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2001
A young Amish girl tells her "silent friend," her diary, about
all the wonderous experiences she has on her first trip to the city.
Reading Level: 4.5; Accelerated Reader: 4.2
Journey to the river sea, by Eva Ibbotson
Dutton Children's Books, 2001
"Originally published in Great Britain 2001 by Macmillan Children's
Books, London"--T.p. verso. Sent with her governess to live with
the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many
hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.
Reading Level: 6.3; Accelerated Reader: 5.6
Viking Press, 1982
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all. Reading Level: 2.9; Accel. Reader: 3.8
A pictorial account of the traveler and pilgrim Ibn Battuta in the fourteenth century, following him from Morocco to Jerusalem to Mecca and to the edges of the known world. Reading Level: 4.3; Accel Reader: 4.0
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
"follows Benjamin on a 14-year trip, which takes him from his home in Spain to historic cities of the ancient world: Rome, Babylon, Baghdad, and Jerusalem, among others. Illness, hunger, thirst, thieves, and assassins plague the journey. Yet there are also wonderful adventures, mystical stories, and fabulous sights, such as the pyramids." (Booklist) Reading Level: 3.6
A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants. Reading Level: 3.4; Accelerated Reader: 4.6,
