Mikayla's Around the World Reading Challenge 2024-2028

• This reading challenge is all about reading books set in, written by, or that have characters from various states, countries, or places.

• The books are placed in sections based on their states, countries, or places

• This post will be updated hopefully every few months and hopefully completed at some point by 2028.

• Books that have been read and completed are highlighted.

The United States of America

• Alabama
  

• Eerie Alabama: Chilling Tales from the Heart of Dixie by Alan Brown with Kari Schultz (Illustrator)

• Gone Crazy in Alabama (Gaither Sisters 3) by Rita Williams-Garcia

• The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
  

• Alaska
  

• Dream Flights on Arctic Nights by Brooke Hartman with Evon Zerbetz (Illustrator)

• Arizona
  

• Hounded by Kevin Hearne

• Inland by Téa Obreht

• Arkansas
  

• The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine

• California
  

• Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman with Sarah Watts (Illustrator)

• The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson

• One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters 1) by Rita Williams-Garcia

• Colorado
  

• Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire by John August

• Connecticut
  

• The Bookshop on the Corner by Rebecca Raisin

• Delaware
  

• A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 by Karen Hesse

• Florida
  

• Freddy Goes to Florida by Walter Rollin Brooks with Kurt Wiese (Illustrator)

• Georgia
  

• Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore

• Hawaii
  

• Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends by Thomas G. Thrum

• Lei and the Fire Goddess by Malia Maunakea

• Idaho
  

• Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score

• Illinois
  

• The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925 by Wallace E. Akin

• Indiana
  

• Black Noon: The Year They Stopped the Indy 500 by Art Garner

• Iowa
  

• The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup

• Kansas
  

• Class Mom by Laurie Gelman

• Kentucky
  

• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

• Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams

• Lousiana
  

• Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

• Maine
  

• The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen 

• Massachusetts
  

• Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

• Luis Paints the World by Terry Farish with Oliver Dominguez (Illustrator)

• Michigan
  

• Call Me Athena: Girl From Detroit by Colby Cedar Smith

• Lending a Paw by Laurie Cass

• Minnesota
  

• Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community by Heid E. Erdrich (Editor), Laura Tohe (Editor)

• Mississippi
  

• South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature by Margaret Eby

• Missouri
  

• Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn

• Nebraska
  

• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

• Nevada
  

• The Lady's Mine by Francine Rivers

• New Hampshire

• Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
  

• New Jersey

• Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski

• All the Ways to Go by Jessie Janowitz

• New York
  

• P.S. Be Eleven (Gaither Sisters 2) by Rita Williams-Garcia

• North and South Carolina
  

• The Book Club On Waverly Lane by Rachel Hanna with Jennifer March

• Creatures of Habit by Jill McCorkle

• Oklahoma
  

• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

• Pennsylvania
  

• Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen with Krush (Illustrator)

• Tennessee
  

• The Decomposition of Jack by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

• The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee by Barbara R. Duncan with Shan Goshorn

• Texas
  

• Armadilly Chili by Will Terry and Helen Ketteman

• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

• The Great Texas Dragon Race by Kacy Ritter

• Utah
  

• Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

• Washington
  

• Framed! by James Ponti

• Wisconsin

• What the Moon Said by Gayle Rosengren

Around Latin America

• All Roads Lead to Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smith

Mexico

• The Coyote Under the Table by Joe Hayes with Antonio Castro L. (Illustrator)

Cuba

• The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Brazil

• Shocking Brazil: Six Games That Shook the World Cup by Fernando Duarte, Gilberto Silva

Canada/ Palestine

• Something More by Jackie Khalilieh (Palestinian-Canadian female MC)

Africa

• Hockey Night in Kenya by Danson Mutinda with Claudia Dávila (Illustrator)

• My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World by Margriet Ruurs
  

• “Dumb” Orphans: The Bundu Bunch Trilogy by Allan Low

Spain

• Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey

Germany

• Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael O. Tunnell

United Kingdom

• Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop by Rebecca Raisin

Russia

• Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire

China

• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz

• The Only Child by Guojing

Japan

• Folk Tales from Japan: Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales for Children by Florence Sakade with Yoshio Hayashi (Illustrator)

North Korea

• Brother's Keeper by Julie Lee

India

• Children of the Wolf by Jane Yolen

Australia

• Trouble at the Zoo (Bindi Wildlife Adventures 1) by Bindi Irwin, Chris Kunz

Iceland, Denamark, and Finalnd

• Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark by Chronicle Books with Ulla Thynell (Illustrator)

Thailand

• The Mystery of the Golden Cat by Eleanor Coerr

Sweden

• The Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle

Norway

• Book Towns: Forty-Five Paradises of the Printed Word by Alex Johnson

• Cecil the Pet Glacier by Matthea Harvey and Giselle Potter

Iran, Peru, Italy

• This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World by Matt Lamothe

Rome

• Infinity: Crown of Golden Leaves by Catalina DuBois