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The Road to There

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Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children’s non-fiction
Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12

Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year
2003 winner of the Mr. Christie’s Book Award Seal

Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-fiction
Included on VOYA’s ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List

Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children’s Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category

Road maps; sailor’s charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like colors; computer printouts – to guide us through the strange, vast, beautiful, and mysterious frontiers of the world of maps, Val Ross presents the men and women who made them.
Here are some of the unexpected stories of history’s great mapmakers: the fraud artists who deliberately distorted maps for political gain, Captain Cook, the slaves on the run who found their way thanks to specially-pieced quilts, the woman who mapped London’s streets, princes, doctors, and warriors. These are the people who helped us chart our way in the world, under the sea, and on to the stars.
With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, this extraordinary book, packed with information, is as fascinating and suspenseful as a novel.

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Publisher: Tundra

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 5, 2009

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781770490628
  • Release date: June 5, 2009

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781770490628
  • File size: 9995 KB
  • Release date: June 5, 2009

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:8.1
Lexile® Measure:1140
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:7-9

Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children’s non-fiction
Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12

Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year
2003 winner of the Mr. Christie’s Book Award Seal

Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-fiction
Included on VOYA’s ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List

Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children’s Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category

Road maps; sailor’s charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like colors; computer printouts – to guide us through the strange, vast, beautiful, and mysterious frontiers of the world of maps, Val Ross presents the men and women who made them.
Here are some of the unexpected stories of history’s great mapmakers: the fraud artists who deliberately distorted maps for political gain, Captain Cook, the slaves on the run who found their way thanks to specially-pieced quilts, the woman who mapped London’s streets, princes, doctors, and warriors. These are the people who helped us chart our way in the world, under the sea, and on to the stars.
With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, this extraordinary book, packed with information, is as fascinating and suspenseful as a novel.

Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Tundra

    Kindle Book
    Release date: June 5, 2009

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781770490628
    Release date: June 5, 2009

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781770490628
    File size: 9995 KB
    Release date: June 5, 2009

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 8.1
    Lexile® Measure: 1140
    Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    Text Difficulty: 7-9
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