The Uprising: The Mapmakers in Cruxcia
By (Author) Eirlys Hunter
Illustrated by Kirsten Slade
Gecko Press
Gecko Press
3rd November 2021
1st March 2022
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
823.92
Paperback
256
The land holds the truth ... the maps will reveal it.
Sal, Joe, Francie and Humphrey Santander are mapmakers looking for their father, a famous explorer who disappeared on his last expedition.
Their search takes them to Cruxcia, where the people are fighting to protect their land from the all-powerful Grania Trading Company. The Santanders mapping skills may be the missing piece in the Cruxcian race to save the ancient valleyand the key to reuniting their family.
"a really exhilarating read."
-- Just Imagine, UKEirlys Hunter is the author of seven childrens books as well as a novel and short stories for adults, and hastaught childrens writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.