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Author Dispezio, Michael A.

Title Map mania : discovering where you are and getting to where you aren't / Michael A. DiSpezio ; [illustrated by Dave Garbot].

Publication Info. New York : Sterling Pub., [2002]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Nonfiction  J 912 DIS    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 912 DIS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  J912 DI    Check Shelf
Description 80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Have you ever been lost? -- Halls of horror -- Making your own floor plan -- Making your own map -- Ready? Draw. -- Street smarts -- New direction -- Time for navigation tools -- Compass basics (and basic compasses) -- Orienteering compass -- Showing off -- Parking lot: lost world -- Nose knows -- Only the shadow knows -- Natural (but imperfect) compasses -- Seeing stars -- North star - When the dipper dips too low -- Getting unlost: celestial fix -- Historical side trip -- Let's get physical (and political) -- Ups and downs of topos -- Slicing up the earth -- Gorey details -- Map mania -- Where in the map? -- Mom! Dad! How much longer? -- Lost in space (transmission intermission) -- Help from above -- Tool time -- Lost! -- Bermuda triangle -- Disappearance of Flight 19 -- Lost Dutchman Mine -- When being lost is where you want to be -- Lost continent of Atlantis -- Lost treasure of Oak Island.
Subject Map drawing -- Juvenile literature.
Map reading -- Juvenile literature.
Map drawing.
Map reading.
Maps.
Added Author Garbot, Dave, illustrator.
ISBN 0806944072
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