Get ready for an adventure! MEET Tennessee Toledo, a daring young explorer, searching for fame and fortune in the Egyptian desert! UNCOVER the legendary Mia Pharaoh, a mummified Egyptian queen buried deep beneath the desert sands for thousands of years! DISCOVER Mia Pharaoh"s Gauntlet of Giant Tomes, a series of challenges standing between Tennessee and the greatest archaeological discovery of all time all -- giant, jewel-encrusted statues of the queen"s husbands, Phrank the Large and Woodrow the Small! LEARN how to use a dictionary, an atlas, an almanac, and a thesaurus while helping Tennessee solve Mia Pharaoh"s Dangerous Puzzles of Pain! This book is equipped with a special transmitter so that you can help Tennessee as he tackles each new brain-defying challenge from deep inside Mia Pharaoh"s tomb. While transmitting answers to Tennessee, you will learn how to: • Find information using a table of contents, index, and other research aids • Interpret tables of statistics in an almanac • Use latitude and longitude to identify locations on a map • Trace a word"s origins and explore word roots, prefixes, and suffixes • Find synonyms using the index in a thesaurus And everything else you need to know to get the most out of your reference books! Dictionaries, almanacs, thesauri, and atlases often seem overwhelming, even to the best students. But after you discover the secret of the giant tomes, you"ll have a world of knowledge at your fingertips -- and the thanks of a grateful treasure hunter.