Ancient World Traveler
Passport
Traveler:__________________________________
This is your official World Traveler Passport. You
will have the opportunity to visit various
civilizations from around the world and throughout
the ages. The goal is to read as many books from
as many civilizations as possible. However, you
must read at least one book and complete one
project from each region. For each civilization you
visit, complete the World Traveler Passport
information and color in the correct region on the
map.
Mesopotamia
China
Use the suggested titles to assist you in your
selection, but feel free to ask your librarian and Ms.
Tini about books that are not on the list.
Greece
India
Egypt
Rome
To receive credit for a region, read the book and
complete a project choice.
Project Due Dates:
November 14th
December 16th
January 20th
February 17th
March 23rd
April 12th
May 25th
Prehistoric Fiction
John Midas in the
Dreamtime
Dar and the
Spearthrower
Anooka’s Answer
The Kin
11,000 Years Lost
First Painter
Wolf Brother
Maroo of the Winter
Caves
Wind Rider
India
Catling, Patrick
Skene
Cowley, Marjorie
Cowley, Marjorie
Dickinson, Peter
Griffin, Peni R.
Lasky, Katherine
Paver, Michelle
Turnbull, Ann
Small acts of amazing
Courage
A Crazy day with Cobras
Karma: A novel in verse
The Midnight Palace
Tiger’s Quest
Tiger’s Curse
The Grand Plan to Fix
everything
Toads and Diamonds
Boys without Names
Whelen, Gloria
Osborne, Mary
Ostlere, Cathy
Zafon, Ruiz
Houck, Colleen
Houck, Colleen
Krishnaswami, Uma
Tomlinon, Heather
Sheth, Kashmira
Williams, Susan
Ancient China-15th Century China
Ancient Mesopotamia
How the Amazon Queen
Fought the Prince of
Egypt
The Golden Bull
Ever
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Ishtar and Tammuz: A
Babylonian Myth of the
Season
Varjak Paw
To Ride the God’s Own
Stallion
Bower, Tamara
Cowley, Marjorie
Levine, Gail Carson
McCaughrean, Geraldine
Moore, C.J.
Said, S.F.
Wilson, Diane L.
Little Eagle
The Magic Horse of Han
Gan
The Story of Chopsticks
Shen and The Treasure
Fleet
Gu-Yu: Blood Brothers
to the End: A Chinese
legend
The Kite Rider
The Warlord’s Puzzle
The Silk Princess
Chen, Jiang Hong
Chen, Jiang Hong
Compestine, Yiang
Chang
Conlogue, Ray
Jolley, Dan
McCaughrean, Geraldine
Pilagard, Virginia Walton
Santore, Charles
Ancient Rome
Atticus of Rome: 30 BC
Mystery of the Roman
Ransom
Miranda the Great
The Roman Twins
The last girls of Pompeii
The Roman Mystery
Series
Galen: My life in
Imperial Rome
Tiger, tiger
See you later, gladiator
The Bronze Bow
Denenberg, Barry
Winterfield
Estes, Eleanor
Gerrad, Roy
Lasky, Kathryn
Lawrence, Caroline
Moss, Marissa
Reid Banks, Lynne
Scieszka, Jon
Speare, Elizabeth George
Receive a stamp for each region you “visit”.
Prehistoric
Project Choices:
1. Write a letter to your main character,
commenting on what you think of what s/he
did in a significant event in the story (1-2
pages)
2. Write a title for each chapter in the story, and
rewrite one of the chapters from a different
character’s perspective. (1-2 pages)
3. Find several lines that you like in the book.
Illustrate the lines in color, and write a
paragraph describing why you like the lines,
and what you were trying to capture in your
illustration.
4. Find the “heart” of the story (the main idea).
Write it out, and choose 3-4 points in the
story that support the main idea or “heart”.
Draw an illustration of your ideas.
5. Choose a character in your book and
compare him/her to a character in a movie,
TV program, another book, or someone you
know. How are they alike or different (1-2
pages).
6. Describe how the setting in your story affects
the characters and events. Place your story
in a new setting and show how it would
change the story (1-2 pages).
7. Create a diorama of an important event in
the story. Write an important line or quote
from the story on the diorama. Be creative.
Talk to Ms. McBride about a different idea!
Legend of the Chinese
Dragon
Dragonwings
Qwan (vol 1-4)
Dragon keeper
Butterfly Lovers: A tale
of the Chinese
Dragon’s Gate
Sellier, Maria
Zeman, Ludmila
Zeman, Ludmila
Yep
Shimizi, Aku
Wilkinson, Carole
Dai
Yep
Ancient Greece
The Minotaur of Knosses
Nightsong: The Legend
of Orpheus and Eurydice
The Lightening Thief
Series
The Fire of Ares
Nobody’s Princess
Joshua Cross and the
lair of the Centaur
It’s all Greek to Me
Atalanta and the
Arcdian Beast
Jason and the Gorgon’s
Blood
Odysseus in the serpent
maze
Pandora of Athens
Troy
Gilgamesh the King
The Revenge of Ishtar
Ancient Egypt
The Long Lost Map
Angeletti, Roberta
Cadnum, Michael
Riordan, Rick
Ford, Michael
Freisner, Esther M.
Redmond, Diana
Scieszka, Jon
Yolen, Jane
Yolen, Jane
Yolen, Jane
Denenberg
Geras
Sphinx’s Princess
Cleopatra the VII,
daughter of the Nile
Orphan of the Sun
The Cat of Bubastes: A
Tale of Ancient Egypt
Casting the gods adrift:
A Tale of Ancient Egypt
The golden goblet
Mara: Daughter of the
Nile
The Pharaoh’s Secret
Egyptian Diary: The
Journal of Nakht
Maia of Thebes
Hour of the Cobra
Baccalario,
Pierdomenico
Freisner, Esther
Gregory, Kristiana
Harvey, Gill
Henry, G.A.
McCaughrean, Geraldine
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
Moss, Marissa
Platt, Richard
Turner, Ann
Williams, Maiya