"Where's Dad?" "I don't know." "Was Dad wearing a safety line?" All Bick can do is shake his head. He, his twin sister Beck, their older sister Storm and their older brother Tommy are caught in a perfect storm in the Caribbean Ocean. Their father was on deck but there is no trace of him now. He must have washed overboard leaving his four children to survive on their own.
These aren't just any children though. These is the Kidd family. They have grown up sailing the seven seas in search of treasure with their parents. Their mother went missing in Cyprus and now their father is missing.
They have enough money left for a week's worth of groceries and four tanks of gas for the boat, The Lost. How will they survive? Will they end up in an orphanage? Why did their father want the amulet of the bee? Does it hold some secret?
Using the brains of Storm, the brawn of Tommy and the quick wits of the twins Bick and Beck the Kidds are going to have to figure out who the bad guys are and who the good guys are. Up against the CIA, pirates and old family friends who just might not be all they appear, surviving is not going to be easy. Can they defeat their father's biggest rival? Can they figure out what their father had planned before he disappeared?
Told in fast-paced five page chapters with plenty of black and white drawings to fill in the blanks, this adventure makes for an amazingly quick read that ups the ante and offers unexpected new twists at every turn of the page.
451 pages Ages 9-12 978-0316207560
Recommended by: Barb, abookandahug.com
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And from the publisher:
The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But after their parents disappear on the job, the kids are suddenly thrust into the biggest treasure hunt of their lives. They'll have to work together to defeat dangerous pirates and dodge the hot pursuit of an evil treasure hunting rival, all while following cryptic clues to unravel the mystery of what really happened to their parents--and find out if they're still alive. - See more at: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james-patterson/treasure-hunters/9780316207560/#desc
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