Kid's Travel Fiction

J FIC ACK                    

           Ackerman, Karen, 1951-.  The night crossing.  New York : Knopf,

                1994.  In 1938, having begun to feel the persecution that

                all Jews are experiencing in their Austrian city, Clara and

                her family escape over the mountains into Switzerland.

J FIC ALEXANDER              

           Alexander, Lloyd.  The rope trick.  1st ed.  New York : Dutton

                Children's Books, 2002.  Motivated by her quest to learn a

                legendary rope trick, the magician Princess Lidi and her

                troupe embark on a journey through Renaissance Italy that

                intertwines adventure, love, and mystery.

J FIC BAN                    

           Banks, Lynne Reid, 1929-.  Maura's angel.  1st ed.  New York :

                Avon Books, 1998.  Just when her home life and the

                circumstances in violence-plagued Belfast seem more than she

                can bear, eleven-year-old Maura encounters an unusual person

                whose name, Angela, gives a clue to her real identity.

J FIC CLARK                  

           Clark, Ann Nolan, 1898-.  Secret of the Andes.  New York : Viking

                Press, 1952.  An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden

                valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca

                ancestors.

J FIC CRE                    

           Creech, Sharon.  The Wanderer.  New York :

                HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000.  Thirteen-year-old Sophie and

                her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard

                the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with

                uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their

                grandfather in England.

J FIC DAHLBERG               

           Dahlberg, Maurine F., 1951-.  Play to the angel.  New York :

                Puffin Books, 2002, c2000.  In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow

                of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old

                Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like

                her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her

                widowed mother.

J FIC DUB                    

           Du Bois, William P©ene, 1916-.  The twenty-one balloons.  New

                York : Viking Press, c1975.

J FIC EVANS                  

           Evans, Douglas, 1953-.  MVP* : *Magellan Voyage Project.

                Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2004.  Twelve-year-old Adam

                Story is challenged by the deposed ruler of Babababad and

                his mongoose companion to become the first youngster to

                travel around the world in forty days without an adult.

J FIC GEO                    

           George, Jean Craighead, 1919-.  Shark beneath the reef.  1st ed.

                New York : Harper & Row, c1989.  On the Island of Coronado,

                a young Mexican fisherman comes of age as he becomes aware

                of the politics, corruption, and changes around him.

J FIC GIF                    

           Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Lily's crossing.  New York : Delacorte,

                1997.  During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944,

                Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her

                to see the war and her own world differently.

J FIC KOSS                   

           Koss, Amy Goldman, 1954-.  Stolen words.  1st ed.  Middleton,

                Wis. : American Girl, c2001.  In her diary, eleven-year-old

                Robyn describes her family's visit to Austria, from the

                disastrous theft of their luggage to adventures in the

                countryside, while she tries to recover from the death of

                her Aunt Beth.

J FIC LAS                    

           Lasky, Kathryn.  Jahanara, Princess of Princesses.  New York :

                Scholastic, 2002.  Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara,

                first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty,

                writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings,

                battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes

                historical notes on Jahanara's later life and on the Mogul

                Empire.

J FIC MOSS                   

           Moss, Marissa.  Amelia hits the road.  Middleton, Wis. : Pleasant

                Co., 1999.

J FIC PAR                    

           Park, Linda Sue.  A single shard.  New York : Clarion Books,

                2001.  Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval

                Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs

                to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

J FIC SCH                     

           Schlein, Miriam.  The year of the panda.  1st ed.  New York :

                Crowell, c1990.  A Chinese boy rescues a starving baby

                panda, and, in the process, learns why pandas are

                endangered, and what the government is doing to save them.

J FIC SER                    

           Seredy, Kate.  The white stag.  New York : The Viking press,

                c1937.  Retells the legendary story of the Huns and Magyars'

                long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a

                permanent home.

J FIC SPY                    

           Spyri, Johanna.  Heidi.  Chicago, IL : Masterwork Books, 1996.

J FIC TAN                    

           Tan, Amy.  The Moon Lady.  1st ed.  New York : Macmillan, c1992.

                Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as

                a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be

                granted a secret wish.

J FIC WOJ                    

           Wojciechowska, Maia, 1927-.  Shadow of a bull.  New York :

                Atheneum, 1965, c1964.  Manolo Olivar has to make a

                decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become

                a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.

NEW J FIC DOWD               

           Dowd, Siobhan.  The London Eye mystery.  1st American ed.  New

                York : David Fickling Books, 2008.  When Ted and Kat's

                cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel,

                the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that

                is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve

                the mystery of what happened to Salim.

NEW J FIC WHELAN             

           Whelan, Gloria.  Listening for lions.  1st ed.  New York :

                HarperCollins, c2005.  Left an orphan after the influenza

                epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old

                Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's

                identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to

                return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.

NEW YA FIC BELL              

           Bell, Ted.  Nick of time.  1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.  New York

                : St. Martin's Griffin, 2008.  With the help of Lord Hawke,

                whose children have been taken by the evil pirate Captain

                Billy Blood, young Nick McIver uses a time machine to rescue

                the two children as well as change the course of events in

                two time periods, the Napoleonic Wars and World War II.

YA FIC AVI                   

           Avi, 1937-.  The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle.  [1st ed.].

                New York : Orchard Books, c1990.  As the lone "young lady"

                on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the

                captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.

YA FIC CREECH                

           Creech, Sharon.  Bloomability.  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins

                Publishers, c1998.  When her aunt and uncle take her from

                New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an

                international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an

                expanding world and her place within it.

YA FIC FAR                   

           Farmer, Nancy.  The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm : a novel.  New

                York : Orchard Books, c1994.  In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General

                Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a

                plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their

                special powers to search for them.

YA FIC LEW                   

           Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman, 1892-1958.  Young Fu of the upper

                Yangtze.  New York : Dell, 1960, c1932.