The Golden Specific

B
OOKS
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S. E. G
ROVE

M
APMAKERS

The Glass Sentence

The Golden Specific

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Copyright © 2015 by S. E. Grove

Maps by Dave A. Stevenson

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Grove, S. E.

The golden specific / S. E. Grove ; maps by Dave A. Stevenson.

pages cm. —(Mapmakers ; book 2)

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims, with her friend Theo, continues to search for her parents, explorers who have vanished as the borders shift within a world transformed by the Great Disruption of 1799.

ISBN 978-0-698-14837-6

[1. Fantasy. 2. Maps—Fiction. 3. Missing persons—Fiction.] I. Stevenson, Dave A., illustrator. II. Title.

PZ7.G9273Gol 2015

[Fic]—dc23

2014034892

For Alton

It is difficult for us to grasp the peculiar glamour and significance the yellow metal held for the conquistadores. We respond instantly to the cool irony of a Hernán Cortés explaining to a Mexican chief that Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart, for which gold is the only specific; but in that coolness and irony, as in almost everything else, Cortés is atypical.

—Inga Clendinnen,
Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570