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Voyages and travels

Outward Leg

Tristan Jones

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Bridle the wind

Joan Aiken

His journey back to Spain interrupted by shipwreck, loss of memory, and a stay in a forbidding French monastery, twelve-year-old Felix finally continues his journey in the company of a mysterious boy

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13 Little Blue Envelopes

Maureen Johnson

When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

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Ruby Holler

Sharon Creech

Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, be

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Jason's Gold

Will Hobbs

When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.

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Marco Polo and the Medieval Explorers

Rebecca Stefoff

Examines the life and travels of the medieval explorer.

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The European Discovery of America

Samuel Eliot Morison

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Rivers I Have Known

Willard Price

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Marco Polo's Adventures in China

Milton Rugoff

Recounts the adventures of Marco Polo who, with his father and uncle, journeyed to the court of Kublai Khan in China from 1271 to 1295.

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