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1) The map trap
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Alton Barnes loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders that he must obey to get the maps back but, with the help of a popular classmate, he just might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them.
Author
Series
Mapmakers ; 2
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims, with her friend Theo, continues to search for her parents, explorers who have vanished as the borders shift within a world transformed by the Great Disruption of 1799." --
Author
Series
Mapmakers ; 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods, Sophia Tims journeys home to Boston, anticipating her reunion with Theo, but he has been conscripted to fight in the Western War, Prime Minister Broadgirldle's twisted vision of Manifest Destiny.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Language
English
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Description
"Fifth grader True North Vincent is a map enthusiast who is struggling after spending months in quarantine because of a virus, and she finds herself navigating family responsibilities, new friendships, abandoned kittens, and a pirate treasure hunt." --
Author
Language
English
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Description
Computers have failed, electricity is extinct, and the race to discover new lands is underway! Brilliant explorer Alexander West has just died under mysterious circumstances, but not before smuggling half of a strange map to his intrepid childrenKit the brain, M.K. the tinkerer, and Zander the brave. Why are so many government agents trying to steal the half-map? (And where is the other half?) It’s up to Alexander’s childrenthe...
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Tower of winds ; 2
Language
English
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Description
"When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late." --
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"When two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, nineteen-year-old Elias, a royal mapmaker, sets sail with King Ulises to uncover long-held secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the king's two young brothers eighteen years earlier." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
11) Kat's maps
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Kat, who loves to make maps of all sorts of places and things, gives a special map to Jack.
12) The ivory key
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Since the murder of the maharani of Ashoka--the country that controls all magic--the relationships between the royal siblings have fractured. At only 18, Vira has ascended to the throne, a role few in her council believe her capable of. Meanwhile, her twin brother, Ronak, is plotting to break free from a tactful marriage and taking their half-brother, Kaleb, (wrongfully imprisoned for the maharani's assassination) with him. The siblings' unease comes...
Author
Series
Mapmakers ; 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Determined to run away from her home in the Valley, an area controlled by the tyrannical Night Coats, Alidade stumbles upon a magical hideaway that belongs to the long-lost peacekeepers known as the Mapmakers, and accidentally brings to life a magical creature who is meant to protect the Valley." --
14) A king's ransom
Author
Language
English
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Description
After seven members of their family are kidnapped by an organization called the Vespers, Dan and Amy Cahill must race against time to track down an ancient map to pay as ransom to bring the hostages home.
Author
Series
Mapmakers ; 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World -- a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on...
16) Quest
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the Caldecott Honor-winning Journey, much of Becker's energy was devoted to the story's exquisite backdrops. Now, in the second wordless book of his planned trilogy, the focus is on his characters. On a rainy day in a city park, the girl who starred in Journey and the boy introduced at the end take refuge by a doorway under a bridge. To their surprise, a king emerges from the door just long enough to pass the two a map before soldiers apprehend...
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Series
Poptropica ; 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
To protect the mysterious uncharted island world of Protopia, Mya, Oliver, and Jorge join forces with the Protectors to find Octavian before he destroys human history.
"In this exciting third installment of the Poptropica series, we find Mya, Oliver, and Jorge in the custody of a secret society whose mission is to protect and preserve Poptropica--a mysterious, uncharted island world. These Protectors, as they call themselves, believe that any outside...
19) Henry's map
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Henry, a very organized pig, frowns at the untidy farm where he lives, but after making a map to show where everything belongs, he and the other farm animals discover a big problem.
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