Computers have failed, electricity is extinct, and the race to discover new lands is underway! In this nail-bitingly thrilling adventure novel, brilliant explorer Alexander West has just died under mysterious circumstances, but not before smuggling half of a strange map to his intrepid children Kit, the brain, M. K., the tinkerer, and Zander, the brave. Why are so many government agents trying to steal the half-map? What powerful secrets does it hold? And where is the other half? It's up to Alexander's children the Expeditioners to get to the bottom of these questions, and fast.

 

This is volume 1 in Expeditioners .

There are 375 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by McSweeney's Publishing .

Katherine Roy is the author and illustrator of How to Be an Elephant and Neighborhood Sharks , a Sibert Honor book. She is also the illustrator of the Expeditioners series and of Buried Beneath Us . She lives in Oregon with her husband and son. S. S. Taylor lives in Vermont and has a strong interest in books of all kinds, expeditions, old libraries, mysterious situations, long-hidden secrets, maps, and exploring known and unknown places. She is most recently the author of Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean.