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Maps bring the real world into miniature and help us understand the cities, roads, and landforms around us. Learn everything you'll need to know to unlock the information in a map.
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Linda Crotta Brennan
Linda Crotta Brennan is the award-winning author of more than twenty books for children including Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidency, When Rivers Burned: The Earth Day Story, and The Black Regiment of the American Revolution. For many years, Ms. Brennan taught and worked in libraries. Now she writes full-time, her golden retriever at her feet.
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