voyages and travels

Tom, fighting to rescue his aunt and uncle from the evil wizard Marvel with the help of his animal companions, faces off against a beast known as Spiros the Ghost Phoenix.

When twelve-year-old Josephine falls through a wormhole in her garden shed into another time and place, she realizes the troubles she has at home are minor compared to what she has to tackle in the world where she has landed.

Relates the story of the Disney and Pixar movie, "Up," from the point of view of the young boy as he journeys through the jungles of South America with a seventy-eight-year-old balloon salesman.

Through a series of flip-up postcards addressed to his family, Sunny Meerkat documents his travels as he searches for the perfect place for him to live.

Josh forgot to bring the cocoa for the chocolate cake his class is going to make, but when he pulls the strings on his magic backpack, Josh and a friend fly to his uncle's cocoa plantation in Ghana.

A biography of the Italian traveler who became the first European to cross Asia completely and document his experiences.

An abridged version of the classic "The Odyssey," the tale of Odysseus' ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, narrated by Wishbone the television dog, with information about the author and setting of the story, and a list of characters.

The life of the fifteenth-century Italian sailor who discovered a new continent while pursuing his dreams of adventure across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a western route to India.

Discusses some of the reasons people travel and the different means of transportation they use.

Describes the voyages of exploration made by Christopher Columbus and the "new world" he found, as well as the discoveries of Balboa and Magellan.