The Doomed Search for the Lost City of Z

by Cindy L. Rodriguez, Martín Bustamante (Illustrator)

Overview

Percy Fawcett was a mapmaker and an adventurer. In the early 1900s, he spent years mapping out the jungles of South America. Fawcett became obsessed with the idea of a lost city of gold hidden deep in the jungle. At the age of 57, Fawcett, his 21-year-old son Jack, and Jack’s friend Raleigh Rimell left on a quest to find the Lost City of Z. The three men were never heard from again. Untangle the clues they left behind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666322286
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2022
Series:	Deadly Expeditions
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	638,334
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	GN590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Cindy L. Rodriguez is the author of the YA novel When Reason Breaks and has contributed to the anthology Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles. She has also written the text for Volleyball Ace, Drill Team Determination, and Gymnastics Payback, all part of the Jake Maddox series. Before becoming a teacher, she was an award-winning reporter for The Hartford Courant and researcher for The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team. She is a founder of Latinxs in Kid Lit, a blog that celebrates children's literature by/for/about Latinxs. Cindy is a big fan of the three Cs: coffee, chocolate, and coconut. She is currently a middle school reading specialist in Connecticut, where she lives with her family.

Martin Bustamante is an illustrator and painter from Argentina. At the age of 3 he was able to draw a horse "starting by the tail"as his mother always tells. As a teenager he found on movies like Star Wars and books as Prince Valiant, from Harold Foster, new and fascinating worlds full of colors, shapes and atmospheres that became his inspiration for drawing. At that moment drawing and painting became his passions. He started working as a professional illustrator and has work for several editorials and magazines from Argentina, Usa and Europe.

Table of Contents

The Birth of an Explorer 4

Fawcett's First Expeditions 6

Returning to the Amazon Again and Again 10

One Final Journey 16

The Hunt for Fawcett 24

Map of the Expedition 28

More About the Expedition 29

Glossary 30

Read More 31

Internet Sites 31

Index 32

Author Bio 32

Illustrator Bio 32

Interviews

High-interest approach to well-known expeditions;