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Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A mixed-format picture book biography of STEM pioneer Marie Tharp describes the conventions of the early 20th century that challenged her pursuit of an Earth Sciences degree and her histort-shaping first scientific charting of the Atlantic Ocean floor.
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After not being allowed on a research ship, scientist Marie Tharp worked in her small office to map out the ocean floor and, overcoming the skeptics of her scientifc community, discovered a deep rift valley in the ocean floor, which is now acknowledged to be the largest geograpic feature on the planet.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents the life of the scientist responsible for the first map of the ocean floor, describing her experiences with sexism and her pioneering work which led to the confirmation of the theory of continental drift.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Author
Series
Age of discovery volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In Nalenyr, the family of the Royal Cartographer explores and maps uncharted territories, and when the Royal Cartographer's two grandsons set out to explore the darkest corner of the unknown, they face an ancient magic that threatens to destroy their world.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Ambitious and feisty Josephine 'Joss' O'Malley has spent years fighting to keep her mother's map-making company alive. Just when she finds herself considering taking a risky next step with bad-boy entrepreneur Rogan Reynolds--whose generosity has helped keep the business afloat--Joss meets dark and mysterious Hugh Hawksmoor. Hugh's deft touch and old-world seduction stir Joss's desires like a storm at sea, and she has no clue that he has sailed three...
Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Uses the map as a metaphor to explore writing as a combination of exploration and presentation, comparing the way a writer leads a reader through the imaginary world of a story, novel, or poem to the way a mapmaker charts the physical world.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Present day: When thirty-six-year-old Robyn Willoughby discovers an exquisite yet blood-stained Tudor map in her father's antique map shop, desperate for a distraction from her problems, she decides to investigate. But as Robyn delves into the mystery, she finds herself caught up in a centuries-old secret - one that will change her life forever. 1569: Forced to flee Holland to escape persecution, twenty-year-old Freida Ortelius uses her mapmaking...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world. In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro’s mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most detailed description of the known world, incorporating...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
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Description
"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can't bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A Nova Scotian pacifist, assured a job as a cartographer in London, joins the war effort in 1916 in search of his beloved missing brother-in-law, leaving his son to fend for himself in their grieving fishing village.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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2023 ALA Youth Media Awards
AANHPI Heritage Month for Kids
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Mighty Girls
AANHPI Heritage Month for Kids
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Mighty Girls
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Description
Joining an expedition to chart the southern seas, twelve-year-old mapmaker's assistant Sai, posing as a well-bred young lady with a glittering future, realizes she's not the only one on board harboring secrets when she discovers the ship's true destination.
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