In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd.
Explores the process of making and reading maps, from using sticks and clay to plot early routes, to satellites that circle the globe. Includes activities for making your own maps.
Packed with hands-on activities and projects, this book will help you figure out where you are and how to get where you're going. You'll learn all about your compass - how to use it and how it works, how to find your way by looking at the sun and stars, and how to read a map.
Ken Jennings shares his enthusiasm of maps and discusses a number of related topics, such as map making and collecting, the National Geographic Bee, and Google Earth.
Caterer Goldy Schultz, having already had a sighting of her ex-husband's murderer Sandee Brisbane--a woman who is supposed to be dead--finds her holiday season becoming even more complicated when former district attorney Drew Wellington is found dead at the library while Goldy is setting up for a festive breakfast party.
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.