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A Lion To Guard Us

author: Bulla, Clyde Robert
Left on their own in seventeenth-century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.
FIC
year: 1989
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 360
subjects: voyages and travels [X], london (england), historical fiction [X]

Yuki And The One Thousand Carriers

author: Whelan, Gloria
In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writing poems describing the journey.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: voyages and travels [X], haiku, historical fiction [X], t?kaid? (japan), japan, electronic books, tokaido (japan)

Titanic. Book Three

author: Korman, Gordon
Paddy, Sophie, Juliana, and Alfie explore the mysteries that exist aboard the Titanic, and when an impending disaster means time is running out, the group must find the truth, identify the killer, and try not to sink with the ship.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 57
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: shipwrecks, voyages and travels [X], historical fiction [X]

Titanic. Book Two

author: Korman, Gordon
Four children--Paddy, Sophie, Juliana, and Alfie--are the only people on the Titanic who know that a killer is on the loose, and the threat becomes even bigger when the ship hits an iceberg.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: shipwrecks, voyages and travels [X], historical fiction [X]

Chickadee

author: Erdrich, Louise
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800

The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle

author: Avi
When 13 year-old Charlotte Doyle boarded the Seahawk in June of 1832, she never dreamed that the crew would mutiny and that her life would be in danger.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 188
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

Crispin

author: Avi
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 100
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: middle ages, voyages and travels [X], family life, historical fiction [X], great britain, families, large type books

Jason's Gold

author: Hobbs, Will, Hobbs
Fifteen-year-old Jason embarks on a ten thousand-mile journey in 1897 in hopes of striking it rich after hearing the news that gold has been discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: voyages and travels [X], orphans, historical fiction [X], klondike river valley (yukon)

Orphan Journey Home

author: Ketchum, Liza
In 1828, while traveling from Illinois to Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jesse and her two brothers and sister lose their parents to the milk sickness and must try to finish the dangerous journey by themselves.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, voyages and travels [X], orphans, ohio river, historical fiction [X]

The Impossible Journey

author: Whelan, Gloria
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790

Spirit Walker

author: Paver, Michelle
"When a deadly illness begins to afflict the clans, twelve-year-old Torak, with help from Renn and Wolf, embarks on a journey to find a cure.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 50
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: voyages and travels [X], prehistoric peoples, wolves, historical fiction [X], demoniac possession

The Porcupine Year

author: Erdrich, Louise
Twelve-year-old Omakayas, an Ojibwe girl, draws strength from the land and spirits as she and her family endure numerous hardships in their search for a new home in northern Minnesota in 1852.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 32
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840

Parade Of Shadows

author: Whelan, Gloria
In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman-controlled cities of Istanbul, Damascus, Palmyra, and Aleppo, soon finds the journey increasingly hazardous as she begins to uncover her father's true mission and the secret motivations of the other travelers in their group.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: voyages and travels [X], fathers and daughters, spies, historical fiction [X], turkey, middle east

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

author: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, Mark Twain, Clemens, Samuel, Twain, Mark, (samuel Langhorne Clemens), Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
Designed to acquaint readers with famous stories, this book, in graphic novel format, retells Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 263
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980

The Twenty-one Balloons

author: Du Bois, William P?ne, Du Bois, William Pene
Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 61
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: hot air balloons, balloons, voyages and travels [X], krakatoa (indonesia), historical fiction [X]

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