This list was originally compiled for use in the AWESOME (Around the World Exploring Stories of Mystery and Excitement) Reading Program 2005/2006.
| Africa | Asia | Europe | North America | South America | Australia |
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| Africa | |
| Alexander, Lloyd | The Jedera Adventure |
| Bunting, Eve | I am the Mummy Heb-Nefert |
| Colfer, Eoin | Benny and Omar |
| Corder, Zizou | Lion Boy |
| Dann, Colin | Lion Country |
| Farmer, Nancy | The Warm Place |
| Flegg, Aubrey | The Cinnamon Tree |
| Gordon, Sheila | Waiting for the Rain |
| Harvey, M. A. | The Scorpion Secret |
| Hollyer, Belinda | Long Walk to Lavender Street |
| Johnston, Tony | The Mummy's Brother |
| Kessler, Christine | No Condition is Permanent |
| Lurie, Morris | The 27th Annual African Hippopotamus Race |
| Malone, Geoffrey | Kimba |
| Pond, Roy | The Mummy Monster Game |
| Roberts, Katherine | The Great Pyramid Robbery |
| Simon, Francesca | Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse |
| Simonds, Peter | Savannah Zebra |
| Simons, Moya | Camel Face |
| Turner, Ann | Maia of Thebes |
| Wallace, Karen | Tutankhamun's Arrow |
| Walsh, Jill Paton | Pepi and the Secret Names |
| Whitman, John | The Mummy Returns |
| Wilkinson, Carole | Ramose series |
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| Asia | |
| Bailey, Linda | Adventures in Ancient China |
| Baillie, Alan | Little Brother |
| Baillie, Alan | The China Coin |
| Baillie, Alan | Treasure Hunters |
| Brenner, B. | Chibi: a true story from Japan |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes |
| DeJong, Meindert | The House of Sixty Fathers |
| Divakaruni, C. | The Conch Bearer |
| Fraser, Janine | Sarindi and the Lucky Bird |
| Gifford, Clive | The Water Puppies |
| Kadono, Eiko | Kiki's Delivery Service |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Rikki Tikki Tavi |
| Korman, Gordon | The Everest trilogy |
| McCaughrean, G. | The Kite Rider |
| Manley, Ruth | The Plum-Rain Scroll |
| Marsden, Carolyn | Silk Umbrellas |
| Morgan, Damian | Gil's Quest |
| Neale, Jonathan | Himalaya |
| Park, Linda Sue | The Kite Fighters |
| Roberts, Katherine | The Babylon Game |
| Vondra, Josef | No-name Bird |
| Wilkinson, Carole | Dragonkeeper |
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| Europe | |
| Aiken, Joan | The Wolves of Willoughy Chase |
| Beames, M. | Josef's Bear |
| Cooper, Susan | Over Sea Under Stone |
| Cooper, Susan | The Dark is Rising |
| Cooper, Susan | The Grey King |
| Dickinson, Peter | The Gift Boat |
| Doherty, Berlie | The Sailing Ship Tree |
| Dunlop, Eileen | Castle Gryffe |
| Eldridge, Jim | London Seige |
| Gudel, Helen | Dear Alexandra - a story of Switzerland |
| Hartnett, Sonya | The Silver Donkey |
| Jinks, Catherine | Pagan's Crusade |
| Jungman, Ann | Sasha and the Wolf Cub |
| Klein, Robin | Penny Pollard's Passport |
| Knight, Joan | Charlotte in Paris |
| Mark, Jan | Stratford Boys |
| Mattingley, C. | No Gun for Asmir |
| Meyer, L. A. | Bloody Jack |
| Muchamore, R. | The Recruit |
| Myers, Walter | Three Swords for Granada |
| Platt, Richard | Castle Diary |
| Price, Willard | Arctic Adventure |
| Spyri, Johanna | Heidi |
| Taylor, Marilyn | Faraway Home |
| Wall, Bill | The Boy Who Met Hitler |
| Yolen, Jane | The Dragon's Boy |
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| North America | |
| Aiken, Joan | Nightbirds on Nantucket |
| Anastasio, Dina | Flipper |
| Archer, Chris | Pyrates series |
| Bradman, Tony | Aftershock! |
| Duey, K. | Blizzard |
| Fitz-Gibbon, S. | Lizzie's Storm |
| Fleischmann, S. | Jim Ugly |
| Fleischmann, S. | By the Great Horn Spoon! |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Hoot |
| Horvath, Polly | Everything on a Waffle |
| Jones, Jennifer | Hetunka's Harvest |
| Kehret, Peg | The Volcano Disaster |
| Konigsberg, E. | The View from Saturday |
| Korman, Gordon | Dive trilogy |
| Macauley, David | Ship |
| Matthews, Ann | The Journey of Natty Gann |
| Kimmel, Eric | Balto and the Great Race |
| Naylor, Phyllis | Shiloh |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet |
| Peck, Richard | A Long Way from Chicago |
| Sachar, Louis | Holes |
| Skursynski, G. | National Parks series |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Cay |
| Wilder, Laura | Little House on the Prairie |
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| South America | |
| Alexander, Lloyd | The El Dorado Adventure |
| Clark, Ann Nolan | Secret of the Andes |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Harvey, M. A. | Attack of the Jaguar |
| Lesley, Martine | Morgan Swift and the Trail of the Jaguar |
| Mohr, Nicholas | Going Home |
| Osborne, Mary | Afternoon on the Amazon |
| Platt, Richard | Pirate Diary |
| Roberts, Katherine | The Amazon Temple Quest |
| Talbott, Hudson | Amazon Diary |
| JNF 918.11 | An Adventure in the Amazon |
| JNF 972.75 | Spirit of the Maya |
| JNF 980.013 | Terror on the Amazon: the quest for El Dorado |
| JNF 981 | Yanomami: people of the Amazon |
| JNF 985.019 | Discovering the Inca Maiden |
| JNF 986.6 | Lost Treasure of the Inca |
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| Australia | |
| Baillie, Alan | The Secrets of Walden Rising |
| Baillie, Alan | Songman |
| Carr, Roger | Firestorm! |
| Fleming, Gary | Bollygum |
| Ford, Vince | A Handful of Blue |
| Forrestal, Elaine | Wild Wind |
| French, Jackie | Walking the Boundaries |
| Jeans, Peter | Bodger |
| Metzenthen, David | The Colour of Sunshine |
| Murray, Kirsty | Becoming Billy Dare |
| Norrington, L. | The Barrumi Kids |
| Nunn, Judy | Eye in the Storm |
| Orr, Wendy | Dirtbikes |
| Park, Ruth | Playing Beattie Bow |
| Robertson, Alison | Knocked for Six |
| Simons, Moya | Gypsy Magic |
| Stafford, Paul | Ned Kelly's Helmet |
| Starke, Ruth | Nips XI |
| Svensen, Mark | Shadow Snake |
| Thiele, Colin | Wedgetail |
| Wagner, Jenny | The Nimbin |
| Wharton, Herb | Yumba Days |
| Wheatley, Nadia | Dancing in the ANZAC Deli |
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