Geography alternatives?

We mostly follow AO with some added SCM stuff thrown in and a couple of our own things for good measure.  My 5th grader started out with A Child’s Geography of the World, but we tossed it after a few chapters.  She wasn’t comfortable with the race terms, etc and some of the evolutionary overtones.  She is reading and enjoying Ann Voskamp’s Explore His Earth, and Explore the Holy Land is slated next.  I have the Book of Marvels, but I honestly think that’s out of her range for reading this year, so that one is out.  I see on the AO site it lists “geography concepts” to be learned.  They use Long’s Home Geography, but I don’t prefer books online.  Also, I’m not sure I liked how it read, just from first glance at it.  If I don’t have a book that explains it, chances are I’m not going to explain most of this stuff on our own.  And not just in 5th grade, but in the other grades, as well.  I just don’t think to do it, kwim?  🙂  Do Voskamp’s books teach those things, or are there any other alternatives that would help explain those “concepts?”