Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles! Summer book list, take your favorite books on a trip~

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Summer holiday book list!

The summer holiday presents the perfect opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the rich tapestry of history and geography, especially as they embark on global travels with their families. These journeys provide a unique chance to bring classroom lessons to life, deepening understanding through real-world experiences.

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To complement these adventures, we have curated a recommended reading list designed to inspire and engage students from Year 6 to Year 10. Explore these captivating books to make your travels even more meaningful and enriching!

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Year 6

Exploring Africa and Early Human History

The Akimbo Adventures

Alexander McCall Smith

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Akimbo and his parents live on the edge of an African game reserve. It’s his father’s task to protect the thousands of amazing animals who make it their home, and wildlife-loving Akimbo dreams of helping him. In these three adventures, Akimbo protects elephants from poachers, saves a lion cub from a trap, and rescues a man from a crocodile!

Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country

Atinuke & Mouni Feddag

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Discover the amazing diversity of the African continent in this beautiful book, with words by Atinuke and lively illustrations from Mouni Feddag.

Ancient Civilizations

Phillip Brooks

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Journey into the past and explore the first great civilizations, discover how they arose and why they declined. Find about early settlements, farming, trade, crafts, customs and culture. This colourful volume shows exactly how people lived, how they fought and how they organized their societies.

Stone Age Boy

Satoshi Kitamura

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Travel 20,000 years into the past and discover what life as a caveman was like in this prehistoric picture book by a prodigiously talented artist.

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Year 7 

Glacial Wonders and Rome’s History

Meltdown: Discover Earth’s Irreplaceable Glaciers and Learn What You Can Do to Save Them

Anita Sanchez

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Glaciers may not be as well-known as rain forests or coral reefs, but they are just as vital to the health of the planet, and just as threatened by climate change.

Glaciers: Children’s Earth Sciences Book

Bold Kids

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Glaciers are massive bodies of ice that move under their own weight. They form when snow accumulates faster than ablation, and this process continues over years and centuries. It’s fascinating to see the incredible amount of ice accumulated by the end of the last ice age.

The Thieves of Ostia

Caroline Lawrence

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Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship’s captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she and her three friends, Jonathan, a Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia, an African slave girl; and Lupus, a mute beggar boy, must work together to discover who is beheading the watchdogs that guard people’s homes, and why.

Defenders: Dark Arena

Tom Palmer

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Ghostly activity is threatening a Premier League club as they build a new stadium on Roman ruins. One worker has already met a grisly death – and many other lives are in danger. The horror of modern injustice seems to have woken the spirits of the past …

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Year 8

The Silk Road and Globalisation 

The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History that Created Your World

Peter Frankopan

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From ancient world laws laid down by King Hammurabi and the mighty Persian empire, to terrifying huns, the rise of Europe, two world wars and politics today, The Silk Roads moves through time and history sewing together the threads from different peoples, empires and continents into a phenomenal history of the globe.

Lucy and Dee: The Silk Road

Kirsten Marion

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 In a land full of magic, dragons, and demons, all they have to do is befriend a young emperor―which would be a lot easier if he wasn’t a royal pain and an angry queen didn’t want to destroy him.

Rickshaw Girl

Mitali Perkins and Jamie Hogan

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In this novel for elementary readers illustrated by Jamie Hogan, Naima must find a way to save her mother’s golden bangle — and fix her father’s rickshaw.

Serafina’s Promise

Anne E. Burg

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Serafina made a secret promise to go to school and learn to read so she can become a doctor with her best friend, Julie Marie. But following her dream isn’t easy-endless chores, little money and stomach-rumbling hunger all test her resolve. When an earthquake hits and separates Serafina from friends and family, she encounters her biggest test of all.

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Year 9

Regional Geomorphology and Culture

The Girl Who Climbed Everest

Bonita Norris

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What drives us to go to our limits and beyond? What does it take to make dreams come true over all else? And how can you turn fear into courage?

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Adib Khorram

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Darius Kellner, an Iranian–American teenager living in Portland, Oregon, who has clinical depression. He loves Star Trek, tea, and his little sister, Laleh. Darius struggles with bullies, a lack of friends, and his disapproving dad, Stephen Kellner.

Lovely War

Julie Berry

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Perfect for fans of Divine Rivals, a critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates–and the hearts–of four mortals in their hands.

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Year 10 

 The Paris Peace Conference

The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

Susan Pedersen

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At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under “mandate” from the new League of Nations.

The Peace that Never Was: A History of the League of Nations

Ruth Henig

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Ninety years ago, the League of Nations convened for the first time, hoping to create a safeguard against destructive, world-wide war by settling disputes through diplomacy. This book looks at how the League was conceptualized and explores the multifaceted body that emerged.

Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and its Attempt to End War

Margaret Macmillan

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Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. This book offers a prismatic view of the moment when much of the modern world was first sketched out.

Embark on a summer of discovery 

with these incredible reads. 

Whether you’re exploring new cultures, understanding historical events, 

or analyzing geographical phenomena, 

these books will enrich your mind 

and make your travels 

even more exciting. 

Happy reading and safe travels!

 

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