Book Topics: Journeys

Book Recommendations by Theme are listed here in order to help teachers, book club organizers, and other readers find books organized around a common principle, or big idea. Please see the Main Page List of Themes for more categories, as well as Book Lists by Topic

Escapes/Exiles

Moving to a New Place

Blue Jasmine - India to Iowa
Esperanza Rising - Mexico to California
Eventown  - moving to a small town
Home of the Brave - Sudan to Minnesota
Inside Out and Back Again - Vietnam to Alabama
Listening for Lions - East Africa to England
The Other Side of Truth - Nigeria to England
The President's Daughter - Boston to D.C.
The Red Thread Sisters - China to U.S.
Shooting Kabul - Afghanistan to California
Simon Sort of Says - Omaha to small town Nebraska
We Are Okay - California to New York
When You Trap a Tiger - California to Washington State
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Barbados to Connecticut
You Bring the Distant Near - Mumbai to New York
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - rural village to Chungking

Visiting a New Place

See also: School - Boarding School
Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood - American girl to India
All You Knead is Love - U.S. to Spain
Ellen Outside the Lines - U.S. to Barcelona
Geek Girl 2: U.K. to Tokyo
Her Own Two Feet   - Rwanda to Austin, Texas
Holes - home to juvenile work camp in Texas
In the Shadow of the Sun - U.S. to North Korea
Listen, Slowly - California to Vietnam
No Summit Out of Sight - American to all continents
One Crazy Summer - New York to California in the 1960s
Paint the Wind - California to Wyoming
Peak - New York to Tibet
The Porcupine of Truth - New York to Montana
The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet - Hertfordshire to Brighton
Some Places More Than Others - Oregon to NYC
Take Me to the River - North Carolina to the Rio Grande
Threads - U.S. to China
Uprising - Italy and Russia to New York City

Quests

Road Trips

Running Away from Home

Bud, Not Buddy
Chu Ju's House
Eleanor and Park
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Honest Truth
Maniac Magee
Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave

Traveling Long Distances

See also Quests and Road Trips, above
One Came Home
One Small Step
Some Kind of Courage
Song for a Whale  
Under a Painted Sky
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