![]() ![]() ![]() This wild ride is narrated by Bick, 12, whose rat-a-tat descriptions of the siblings’ adventures are accompanied by drawings by his twin sister, Beck. But when their mother disappears in Cyprus and their father is washed overboard, the kids have to keep the vessel and the family treasure-hunting business afloat while escaping from all sorts of villains including, but not limited to, an arms dealer who collects Grecian urns “Ukranian knuckle-draggers” and a vicious coed. The siblings Bick, Beck, Tommy and Storm have grown up on a 63-foot sailboat, helping their father, a famous oceanographer, dredge up Spanish galleons, sunken Ming dynasty pottery and diamond-encrusted Cypriot artifacts. As befits the number of human beings involved, the book is pretty jam-packed. “Treasure Hunters,” Patterson’s latest middle-grade novel, was written with his frequent collaborator Chris Grabenstein another writer, Mark Shulman, and an illustrator, Juliana Neufeld, are also credited inside. ![]() But it can’t be as exhausting as being James Patterson, who has multiple adult, young adult and middle-grade series coming out simultaneously. What with all the attacks by gnarly surfer pirates, scuba ninjas and unctuous underwater TV hosts, “Treasure Hunters” sure makes sailing sound exhausting. ![]()
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