Read Around the World by Mrs Gonsai https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq Click on the map markers to find books set in different countries - let me know if you think there's a book I should add to the map. en-us 2021-03-10 11:24:37 UTC 2025-09-24 07:46:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png Pisa, Italy mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292411778 Tilt -  Dyslexia Friendly story set during the building of the Leaning Tower of Pisa]]> 2021-03-10 12:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292411778 Paris, 1911 mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292420681 Peril in Paris -  Spies and secrets in the heart of Paris]]> 2021-03-10 12:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292420681 Australia mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292480583 The Middle of Nowhere - Set in the Australian outback - a friendship between Comity who's new to the outback and Fred, an Aboriginal boy.]]> 2021-03-10 12:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292480583 Poland, World War II mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292551377 Girl 38 - Modern day London and Poland during the war collide in a tale of friendship and standing up for what you believe]]> 2021-03-10 12:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292551377 Ghana mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292566920 iPods in Accra - Romance on a summer holiday to visit family in Ghana]]> 2021-03-10 12:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292566920 South Africa mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292576883 A Good Day for Climbing Trees - Marnus is the middle brother who doesn't think he's really good at anything...]]> 2021-03-10 12:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292576883 Amsterdam, 1943 mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292720156 The Girl in the Blue Coat -  "The missing girl is Jewish. I need you to find her before the Nazi's do"]]> 2021-03-10 13:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292720156 Zimbabwe mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292732400 Now is the Time for Running - Deo and Innocent are on a journey to find safety with a father they have never met. They have just each other and a football stuffed with a billion worthless dollars.]]> 2021-03-10 13:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292732400 Sweden, 1956 mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292750160 A Bridge to the Stars - 12 year old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden.]]> 2021-03-10 13:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292750160 Everest Base Camp, Nepal mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292803733 The Everest Files - Ryan is asked to investigate why a 16yr old girl never came back from Everest.]]> 2021-03-10 13:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292803733 Pune, India mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292831684 Monsoon Summer - Going to India isn't Jazz's idea of a great summer holiday, not when she's left behind the business she's just started - and Steve, who doesn't know how she feels about him.]]> 2021-03-10 13:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292831684 Vancouver, Canada mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292873007 Word Nerd - Ambrose is bored - he's been homeschooled ever since the school bully thought it was funny to put a peanut in his sandwich - and nearly killed him.]]> 2021-03-10 13:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292873007 Cape Town, South Africa mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292896079 The White Giraffe - Martine is just 11 when she moves to live on a game reserve in Africa following the death of her parents...]]> 2021-03-10 13:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292896079 Alaska, USA, 1970 mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292909205 The Smell of Other People's Houses - Four very different lives are about to collide...]]> 2021-03-10 13:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292909205 Tibet mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292918005 Running on the Roof of the World - A daring escape across the Himalayas to safety in India]]> 2021-03-10 14:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292918005 Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292934989 Saint Death - An edge of your seat thriller set on the Mexico-USA border.]]> 2021-03-10 14:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292934989 Finland mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292946681 Wilderness - A Husky sledge expedition sounds great - until their mother's sledge doesn't make it back to the lodge...]]> 2021-03-10 14:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1292946681 Venice mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1293114632 The Thief Lord - Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of Venice]]> 2021-03-10 14:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1293114632 China mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1293279935 Spilled Water - Lu Si-yan is just eleven when she is sold into domestic service by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother.]]> 2021-03-10 15:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1293279935 Rio de Janeiro mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1293403120 The Truth and Lies of Ella Black - Ella's life has been a lie. Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas.]]> 2021-03-10 15:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1293403120 New York mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297278289 The Poet X -  Xiomara has always kept her words to herself.
When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But X has secrets - her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the notebook full of poems that she keeps under her bed.

]]> 2021-03-11 10:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297278289 Philippines mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297417741 Bone Talk - The Philippines, 100 years ago. A boy called Samkad wants to become a man. He is desperate to be given his own shield, spear and axe.

His best friend, Luki, wants to be a warrior too - but she is a girl and that is forbidden.

Then a new boy arrives in the village and everything changes.

He brings news that a people called 'Americans' are bringing war right to his home . . .]]> 2021-03-11 11:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297417741 Iceland mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297435812 The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake - Two girls lives collide when a man is found murdered next to an icy road.]]> 2021-03-11 11:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297435812 Denmark mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297452809 Hitler's Canary - Bamse and his eccentric family take part in one of history's most dramatic rescues - smuggling Denmark's Jewish population, across to Sweden and safety.]]> 2021-03-11 11:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297452809 Moscow, Russia mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297461120 Firebird - Nastia is a daring pilot, the daughter of revolutionaries, and now, as the Second World War descends on Russia, she must fight to save the glorious Motherland.
But all is not as it seems...]]> 2021-03-11 11:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297461120 Maine, USA mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297998880 Mistwalker - A haunted Lighthouse, a brother lost at sea and a boy trapped until he collects 1000 souls.]]> 2021-03-11 13:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1297998880 Nebraska, USA mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298023558 There's Someone Inside Your House - Makani has had to move from Hawaii to Nebraska. Between this, and a secret scorching relationship with the school weirdo, this school year may turn out to be one to die for . .]]> 2021-03-11 13:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298023558 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298078342 The Fastest Boy in the World - Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet.]]> 2021-03-11 14:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298078342 Beirut, Lebanon mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298163886 Oranges in No Man's Land - Beirut  has been torn in half by civil war - when her Granny falls desperately ill Ayesha has to set off on a terrifying journey to reach a doctor living in enemy territory.

]]> 2021-03-11 14:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298163886 Siberia, Russia, 1941 mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298209401 Between Shades of Grey - One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia]]> 2021-03-11 14:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298209401 Svalbard mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298264136 Dark Matter - A ghostly and deadly expedition to the Arctic]]> 2021-03-11 14:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1298264136 Jakarta, Indonesia mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1315066474 Kick 
Budi's plan is simple. He's going to be a star. Budi's going to play for the greatest team on earth, instead of sweating over each stitch he sews, each football boot he makes]]> 2021-03-16 11:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1315066474 Tokyo, Japan mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1315119948 Seven Days of You
Sophia's determined to enjoy every second of her last week in Japan - until Jamie Foster-Collins moves back to Tokyo and ruins everything. 

]]> 2021-03-16 11:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1315119948 Pyongyang, North Korea mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1315132924 In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution.



]]> 2021-03-16 12:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1315132924 Japan mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1329076867 Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan

Following the Cherry Blossom from the very south to the very north of Japan]]> 2021-03-19 09:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1329076867 Malacca, Malaysia mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1342392577 The Ghost Bride
Seventeen-year-old Li Lan lives in 1890s Malaya with her quietly-ruined father, who returns one evening with a proposition - the fabulously wealthy Lim family want Li Lan to marry their son. The only problem is, he's dead. ]]> 2021-03-23 12:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1342392577 Stanley, Falkland Islands mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1342550350 Hijack
Intelligence has been received that Argentina is plotting to invade, but is it reliable? The Special Forces Cadets are sent in to investigate...]]> 2021-03-23 12:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1342550350 New Orleans, USA mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1451651068 Out of the Easy - Josie Moraine wants out of The Big Easy - she needs more than New Orleans can offer.

Known locally as a brothel prostitute's daughter, she dreams of life at an elite college, far away from here. But then a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie caught between her ambition and a clandestine underworld.

]]> 2021-04-23 13:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1451651068 Kenya mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1468229664 Burn My Heart - This is an intensely personal and vivid story of two boys: one black, one white.
Once they were friends even though their circumstances are very different.
But in a country riven by fear and prejudice, even the best of friends can betray one another ...

]]> 2021-04-28 09:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1468229664 Riga, Latvia mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1469163860 The Earth is Singing - "My name is Hanna. I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing, taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend and I'm training to be a dancer. But none of that is important any more. Because the Nazis have arrived, and I am a Jew. And as far as they are concerned, that is all that matters. This is my story."]]> 2021-04-28 14:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1469163860 Andalucía, Spain mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1469238143 Toro, Toro - TORO,TORO is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. But the Spanish Civil War is about to begin.]]> 2021-04-28 14:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1469238143 Tokyo, Japan mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1508996531 Tokyo -  Asakusa, Tokyo , 11pm . A whole world of neon, and one lost teenager. Adam can't think how it had ever seemed like a good idea to come to Tokyo , and kind of not mention it to his parents But his sister's missing, last seen here, and with everyone at home apparently doing sweet FA about it, he didn't have much choice.

With only five days to get his act together, Adam has got to sift through the seedy back-street hostess bars, dodge the local yakuza and find out where the hell Charlie is in the craziness that is Tokyo.
]]> 2021-05-10 13:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1508996531 Philadelphia, PA, USA mgo8 https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1652603167 With The Fire On High - Ever since she got pregnant, seventeen-year-old Emoni's life has been about making the tough decisions - doing what has to be done for her young daughter and her grandmother.
Keeping her head down at school, trying not to get caught up with new boy Malachi.
The one place she can let everything go is in the kitchen, where she has magical hands - whipping up extraordinary food beloved by everyone.]]> 2021-07-16 11:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mgo8/6hm509wn0kq2x8tq/wish/1652603167