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Text copyright © 2014 by Andrew Clements
Interior illustrations copyright © 2014 by Dan Andreasen
Jacket illustration copyright © 2014 by Jim LaMarche
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Interior design by Mike Rosamilia, jacket design by Russell Gordon
The text for this book is set in Bembo.
The illustrations for this book are rendered in pencil.
0614 FFG
First Edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clements, Andrew, 1949-
The map trap / Andrew Clements ; illustrated by Dan Andreasen. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: Sixth-grader Alton Ziegler loves maps, and when his folder 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.
ISBN 978-1-4169-9727-6 (hc.)
ISBN 978-1-4169-9729-0 (eBook)
[1. Maps—Fiction. 2. Cartography—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Friendship—Fiction. 5. Stealing—Fiction. 6. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.C59118Map 2014
[Fic]—dc23 2014006821