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'Great Art Thefts' examines famous art crimes and the hunt to find the thieves. Part of the Treasure Hunters series, 'Great Art Thefts' offers a crosscurricular mix of science & technology and history, with a fun, dramatic approach. Art thefts covered in the book include the Mona Lisa, the Scream, the Millennium theft from the Ashmolean Museum, and the greatest ever single art theft: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. The book also looks at...
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'Pirate Treasure' examines the hunt for treasures lost or hidden by pirates, and examines whether any of the legends of buried treasure could really be true. Part of the Treasure Hunters series, 'Pirate Treasure' offers a cross curricular mix of science & technology and history & civilizations, with a fun, dramatic approach. Pirate treasures covered in the book include those of the famous Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, the pirate shipwreck the Whydah,...
7) Shipwrecks
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Shipwrecks examines the hunt for shipwrecks and the valuable treasures they hold, whether that be gold and jewels, or important artifacts that offer us a window on to the past. Part of the Treasure Hunters series, "Shipwrecks" offers a cross curricular mix of science & technology and history, with a fun, dramatic approach. "Shipwrecks" covered in the book include the Tudor Warship the Mary Rose, the Spanish Galleon La Nuestra Senora de Atocha, American...
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'Tomb Explorers' examines the hunt for and discovery of ancient tombs, and the valuable treasures they hold, whether that be gold and jewels, or important artifacts that offer us a window on to the past. Part of the Treasure Hunters series, 'Tomb Explorers' offers a cross curricular mix of science & technology and history & civilizations, with a fun, dramatic approach. Tombs covered in the book include that of Tutankhamun, the Sumerian royal tombs...
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 1
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ADVENTURE STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). In this gift set, the first three books in the bestselling adventure/comedy series takes readers around the world!As the Kidd family travels the globe--braving encounters with pirates, shady art dealers, dangerous wild animals and scheming double-agents--can they follow clues to some of the greatest treasures in history, "and" save their lost parents? This boxed set contains paper-over-board editions of "Treasure...
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 2
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"Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"--
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Treasure hunters volume 2
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Bick Kidd and his globe-trotting siblings Beck, Storm, and Tommy may have completed their first treasure hunt after their father was lost at sea, but their kidnapped mother is still in the hands of nasty pirates. Their search for a rescue plan takes them down the Nile River in Africa, where they'll have to navigate everything from Egyptian pyramids in the desert to wet-and-wild jungles--not to mention life-threatening encounters with wilderness diseases,...
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 3
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"The Kidd children--including twelve-year-old twins Rebecca and Bickford--follow mysterious clues that take them from China to Germany, in the hopes of finding their missing father and the treasure that will finally free their kidnapped mother"--
Bick and Beck Kidd are desperately trying to secure the ancient Chinese artifact that will buy their mother's freedom from renegade pirates. But when the kidnappers force them to locate an even greater treasure--...
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 4
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When a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt go missing in Russia, the Kidd siblings head to St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to find the bad guys and locate the treasure.
14) Keyword cypher
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Treasure hunters volume 1
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"Chris Kingsolver has always been especially close to his aunt. He's heartbroken when she dies in a car accident--and shocked to get a coded letter in the mail after her death. Elsie left Chris clues to the location of a lost treasure ship as an inheritance--if he, his cousin Carrie, and their new friend Maddison can find it. But that might be difficult, what with the mysterious people stalking them, and the strange behavior of the new archivist....
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 5
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Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
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Treasure hunters volume 2
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Somewhere in Saint Erasmus's Catholic church, there's a parish register containing a firsthand account of the sinking of the "San Telmo." To find that ship in honor of their murdered aunt, Chris and Carrie first have to find the register. And it turns out that the church is supposed to be very haunted.
17) The treasure
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Treasure hunters volume 6
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The San Telmo: a Spanish merchant vessel lost in a hurricane off the coast of Archer's Grove while carrying a magnificent dowry home to the Spanish Princess. Chris, Carrie, and Maddison think they know where it is. But if they want to find the ship, they're going to have to survive screaming caves, psychotic oceanography professors, dangerous cave floors, ghosts--and a boat with one terrible paint job. But for Aunt Elsie, who set them on this investigation,...
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Chris and Carrie Kingsolver have the location of the lost treasure ship San Telmo. (Well, Carrie almost has it.) With their friend Professor Griffin and two slightly sketchy grad students, they're off to find it. Meanwhile, Maddison's dad has dragged her off to Nebraska, to consult with a retired police detective about the disappearance of an old college friend. And back at home, the FBI is going door to door. Who else wants the ship so badly? And...
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Treasure hunters volume 3
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On the trail of a document that could lead them to a lost treasure ship, Chris, his cousin Carrie, and their friend Maddison head into the woods in search of and old Spanish Mission church. It should be simple--except for that little stalker problem the kids still haven't been able to shake, plus the film crew that doesn't take kindly to unexpected hikers. And then there's the vengeful ghost said to haunt the woods ...
20) The truth
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Treasure hunters volume 5
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Chris and Carrie have been betrayed. Maddison has discovered the dark secret in her father's past. A cold case is suddenly hot--and has changed from "missing" to " murder." As a crime wave hits Archer's Grove and authorities struggle to catch the culprits, Chris, Carrie, and Maddison turn to the Kingsolvers' Aunt Elsie for answers. Can the notebooks she left behind illuminate this tangled web of lies, betrayals, and broken promises? Will the truth...
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