Recommendations please: "Around the world" - books/novels for YA/teen summer reading

<p>For pioneers, one of my kids read this ( probably oldest, she has always been fascinated)
Excerpts of Diaries of the Westward Journey.
<a href=“Loading interface...”>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/442205.Women_s_Diaries_of_the_Westward_Journey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;