The Treasure Hunt: True Stories of Treasures Lost, Stolen, and Found by Stewart-Sharpe, Leisa

The Treasure Hunt: True Stories of Treasures Lost, Stolen, and Found

Switch on your metal detector, grab your compass, and follow the clues. It's time for YOU to...
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SKU: 9781623546298
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Author: Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Treasure Hunt: True Stories of Treasures Lost, Stolen, and Found by Stewart-Sharpe, Leisa

The Treasure Hunt: True Stories of Treasures Lost, Stolen, and Found

$49.14

The Treasure Hunt: True Stories of Treasures Lost, Stolen, and Found

$49.14
Author: Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Switch on your metal detector, grab your compass, and follow the clues. It's time for YOU to do some treasure hunting of your own! Because X marks the spot . . . or does it?

Perfect for fans of Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid, this nonfiction adventure book will have 6-9 year-olds wanting to travel the world.

Following a trail of intriguing clues, take an epic journey around the world and discover heart-stopping true stories of treasure lost, stolen, and found.

  • Exactly where is Queen Nefertiti's mummy HIDDEN?
  • Can the Titanic's treasures be SAVED from the waves?
  • Could you help find a Viking HOARD with a metal detector?

Find out which artist's work has been STOLEN more than 80 times and where you can DIG UP the tooth of a T. rex as YOU become the treasure hunter . . .

Countries around the world readers will visit:
  • Scotland
  • Norway
  • Egypt
  • Indonesia
  • India
  • Colombia
  • Madagascar
  • And many more

Kids will love this engaging and interactive book that's chock-full of information and facts. THEY are the treasure hunter, and THEY get to be a map reader, code cracker, and puzzle solver, searching for lost treasure and figuring out the mystery.

Author: Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 06/10/2025
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781623546298
Audience: Ages 9-12

About the Author
Leisa Stewart-Sharpe is a journalist turned children's author who grew up in Australia. She has traveled and adventured all over the world. Leisa has come face-to-face with an aye-aye in the Madagascan jungle, sweated across the grasslands of Kenya (chased by a herd of elephants!), and has snorkeled with sharks Down Under. Today Leisa writes children's books from a shed in her English garden, including her bestselling nonfiction books. All of her books have one thing in common: they're about wild places and written for wild children.

Gordy Wright is an illustrator, printmaker, and picture-book maker from the UK. He studied illustration at the University of the West of England, and he enjoys playing with narratives and evoking natural, textured feeling in his illustrations.
www.gordywright.com

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