Title: Kaleidoscope eyes
First published: 2009
Description: Will Lyza's 1968 summer mystery lead to . . . pirate treasure?When Lyza helps her dad clean out her late grandfather's house, a mysterious surprise brightens the sad task. In Gramps's dusty attic, Lyza discovers three maps, carefully folded and stacked, bound by a single rubber band. On top, an envelope says "For Lyza ONLY." What could this possibly be? It takes the help of her two best friends, Malcolm and Carolann, to figure out that the maps reveal three possible spots in their own New Jersey town where Captain Kidd (the Captain Kidd, seventeenth-century pirate) may have buried a treasure. Can three thirteen-year-olds actually conduct a secret treasure hunt? And what will they find? In a tale inspired by a true story of buried treasure, Jen Bryant weaves an emotional and suspenseful novel in poems, all set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War during a pivotal year in U.S. history.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Buried treasure, Family life, Single-parent families, Maps, Research, Novels in verse, Mystery and detective stories, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Treasure troves, Families
Places: New Jersey
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PZ7.5.B792 Kal 2009