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From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the...
2) The map trap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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.
4) Henry's map
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
5) Kat's maps
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kat, who loves to make maps of all sorts of places and things, gives a special map to Jack.
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When Kit Livingstone learns that Britain's "ley lines" are not legends but pathways to other worlds, he's determined to find a map tattooed on a piece of skin in order to travel to the dangerous realms. But are the intricate codes more than they seem--can they really begin a quest to regain paradise?
Author
Series
Tower of winds volume 2
Publisher
b Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When FBI Special Agent Maggie O' Dell and her partner, Tully, discover the remains of a young woman, the one clue left behind is a map -- an invitation of sorts for Maggie to play a game: a game of cat and mouse between killer and investigators that will take Maggie and Tully on a frantic hunt crisscrossing the country to halt the truck-stop killer before he strikes again. With the body count rising, Maggie and her partner race against the clock to...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in the Bahamas, the Thea sisters stumble across an old pirate map and endeavor to find the treasure, unaware that someone else is also seeking the prize.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Mara Coyne's new client has left her uneasy. Republican kingmaker Richard Tobias has hired her, he says, because of her skill in recovering stolen art and advocating for the rightful owners, but Mara senses that he is not telling her everything. Tobias reveals that a centuries-old map was stolen from an archaeological dig he is sponsoring in China, and he wants her to get it back. But as Mara begins her investigation, she uncovers the shocking truth:...
12) The ivory key
Author
Series
Ivory key duology volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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...
13) Quest
Author
Series
Journey trilogy (Aaron Becker) volume 2
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...
14) Generations
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mal wins an old map in a card game. Ancient and written in impenetrable symbols, the former owner insists it's worthless. Yet River Tam can read it, and says it leads to one of the Arks, legendary ships that brought humans from Earth-that-was to the 'Verse. The salvage potential alone is staggering. But the closer they get to the ancient ship, the more agitated River becomes. She says something is waiting inside, something powerful, and very angry..."--Publisher....
Author
Series
Tower of winds volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years ago two princes of the island kingdom of St. John del Mar were kidnapped and murdered by the rival kingdom of Mondrago. Elias grew up without his father, killed trying to protect the princes. Mercedes is half-Mondragan, growing up in the shadow of del Mar's hate. Ulises, the youngest and only remaining prince, inherited the throne meant for his brothers. When two maps surface-- each with the same hidden riddle-- they question what really...
16) Mapmaker
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
Teenagers Tanya and Connor stumble on a deadly secret while working at the digital mapping company which Tanya's dead father co-founded with Connor's father. The next day Connor disappears.
17) The backstabbers
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town--in a thunder storm--and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot--and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Buttons can't...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the Game provides a target--a blinking blue dot on the map. Willie's...
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