A Yearling Book
Random House
December 2010
$6.99 US
264p pb
ISBN:978-0440421900
fp May 2009
Kaleidoscope Eyes
Jenn Bryant
from Random House...
When Lyza helps her
dad clean out her late grandfather’s house, a mysterious surprise
brightens the sad task. In Gramps’s dusty attic, Lyza discovers three
maps, carefully folded and stacked, bound by a single rubber band. On
top, an envelope says “For Lyza ONLY.” What could this possibly be? It
takes the help of her two best friends, Malcolm and Carolann, to figure
out that the maps reveal three possible spots in their own New Jersey
town where Captain Kidd (the Captain Kidd, seventeenth-century
pirate) may have buried a treasure. Can three thirteen-year-olds
actually conduct a secret treasure hunt? And what will they find?
In a tale inspired by a true story of buried treasure, Jen Bryant
weaves an emotional and suspenseful novel in poems, all set against the
backdrop of the Vietnam War during a pivotal year in U.S. history.
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