The Final Treasure #4 (The Treasure Troop, Band 4) - Hardcover

Butler, Dori Hillestad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593094921 ISBN 13: 9780593094921

Verlag: Penguin Workshop, 2021

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From Edgar Award Winner Dori Hillestad Butler comes The Treasure Troop, a chapter book mystery series! Join Marly, Sai, and Isla, three code-cracking kids on the hunt for an old neighbor's hidden treasure.

In the fourth and final book of this code-busting series, Marly, Sai, and Isla are back on the hunt. After their shocking discoveries on Summer Island, the Treasure Troop has one final set of clues to follow before reaching the end of their search. And now our trio must solve the toughest mystery of all: what really happened to Mr. Summerling?

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Dori Hillestad Butler's books have appeared on children's choice award lists in 18 different states. Trading Places with Tank Talbott won the Maryland Children's Choice Award in 2007, and The Buddy Files: Case of the Lost Boy won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery. In 2018, she won a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for King & Kayla and the Case of the Missing Dog Treats. She is the author of the successful Haunted Library series, and has also been a ghostwriter for the Sweet Valley Twins, Unicorn Club, and Boxcar Children series. She's published numerous short stories, plays, and educational materials, and has served as the Iowa Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators' Regional Advisor. She grew up in southern Minnesota and now lives in Seattle with her husband, son, dog, and cat. She visits schools and leads writing workshops all over the country.

Tim Budgen is an illustrator and art teacher. For much of his life he has been scribbling down ideas and can usually be found with a pencil in one hand and a sketchbook in the other! He lives by the sea on Hayling Island, England, with his wife, Julia.

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Chapter 1: Captain Joe Returns

Marly and her friends stood at the end of the Summer Island dock, waving eagerly as Captain Joe’s boat zoomed toward them. It was eight o’clock in the morning, and they were heading home. But that wasn’t why they were so excited.

“Do you have the spyglass?” Sai elbowed Marly.

“Right here.” Marly held it up, then put it to her unpatched eye. She aimed the spyglass at the boat and adjusted the focus. Oh, wow! She could actually see Captain Joe at the wheel! He wore a blue shirt and dark sunglasses, and his curly gray hair was blowing in the wind.

“Can I see?” Isla asked. Her cat ears headband cast a shadow over the water below them.

“Sure.” Marly handed the spyglass to Isla and blinked a few times. But because she wore a patch over her good eye, everything remained out of focus. The patch was supposed to train her bad eye to work better, but while it was on her glasses, she had trouble seeing anything that wasn’t right in front of her face. Ideally, she’d be able to stop wearing it soon.

“What do you think Captain Joe is going to give us?” Sai asked as he bounced from one foot to the other. The letter they’d found yesterday, written by Harry Summerling himself, told them to give the spyglass to Captain Joe, who would then give them something in return. But what? They’d already received a tree house and a trip to Summer Island.

“I hope it’s information about where Harry’s been all summer,” Stella Lovelace said dryly. Stella was Harry Summerling’s attorney. She was the one who’d brought Marly, Isla, and Sai to Summer Island. Until they’d read that letter, everyone, including Stella, believed Mr. Summerling drowned in a storm while searching for treasure a couple of months ago. But now they knew he was alive!

How can they go home without seeing or talking to him? Marly wondered. Especially when he is probably close by!

Isla passed the spyglass back to Marly and Marly pressed it to her eye again. “I wonder if Mr. Summerling is somewhere on that boat,” she said. Captain Joe was getting close enough now that Marly had to back up to keep him in focus.

“Careful!” Stella put her hands out as Marly backed into her with a jolt.

“Oh, sorry,” Marly said, righting herself.

“Ahoy there, Treasure Troop!” Captain Joe waved as he cut the motor and drifted toward the dock.

“Look what we have! Look what we have!” Sai jumped up and down. He couldn’t wait until they were on the boat. “Show him, Marly!”

Marly held the spyglass above her head like it was a trophy.

Captain Joe smiled but didn’t take it from her. “That wouldn’t be Harry Summerling’s antique spyglass, would it?” He plopped a white captain’s hat on his head and began tying the front of the boat to a cleat on the dock.

“Yes!” Sai said. “I mean, probably? Mr. Summerling’s the one who sent us to this island and set up all those puzzles, right?”

Captain Joe didn’t respond. Or even glance up from the rope in his hands.

“We found it with a book about the history of secret codes and a letter from Mr. Summerling that said he was alive,” Marly added, lowering the spyglass to her side. Captain Joe moved to the back of the boat and the kids walked along the dock beside him.

“Not to be rude or anything,” Sai said. “But the letter also said you’re supposed to give us something for the spyglass.”

“Did you know Mr. Summerling was alive?” Stella asked.

“Do you know where he is?” Isla asked.

“Is he nearby? Can we see him before we go home?” Marly asked.

Captain Joe finished securing the boat, then reached for the spyglass. He tucked it into a tall, narrow pocket at the side of his pants. “Why don’t you all come aboard?” he said, offering a hand. “We have some things to talk about.”

They all gathered up their suitcases and Marly’s metal detector and hopped down onto the boat. It shifted in the water with each hop.

Captain Joe showed them where to stow their things and reminded them where the bathroom was. Marly took a quick peek down the stairs into the dark cabin below, wondering if Mr. Summerling was down there. She didn’t see him.

Once Stella and the kids were settled on benches and chairs at the back of the boat, Captain Joe took off his hat. “First,” he said, “I do indeed have some things for you.” He went over to a cabinet, crouched down, and opened the door.

The kids grinned at each other, and Sai squeezed Marly’s arm with anticipation.

The captain grabbed a basketball--size globe from the top shelf and gave it to Sai.

“Niiiice,” he said as he held it in his lap and spun it with his finger.

“There’s more,” Captain Joe said. He pulled out a teddy bear, which he handed to Isla, and a walkie--talkie, which he handed to Marly.

“Oh! Thank you,” Marly said. She and her old friend Aubrey used to talk to each other on walkie--talkies all the time. Unfortunately, Aubrey moved away at the beginning of the summer. And took the walkie--talkies with her.

Captain Joe had only given Marly one handset. “Is there another one of these?” she asked. “Or two?” It would be so fun to use walkie--talkies with both Isla and Sai.

Captain Joe gave her a curious look. “What do you think that is?” he asked.

“Uh . . . a walkie--talkie?” Marly said.

“No, it’s a satellite phone,” Captain Joe said.

Sai frowned. “What’s a satellite phone?”

“It’s a phone that gets its signal from a satellite above the earth rather than a cell tower,” Captain Joe explained. “It allows you to get service in places where a cell phone doesn’t work.”

“Oh,” Marly said, wondering what she needed a satellite phone for. She didn’t even have a cell phone.

“Aw! Someone sewed Harry’s name on the bear’s foot. Isn’t that cute?” Isla wiggled her teddy bear’s floppy foot.

“There’s one more thing in here,” Captain Joe said, stretching his arm deep inside the cabinet.

Marly glanced at the phone in her hand, the teddy bear in Isla’s arms, and the globe in Sai’s lap. “I bet we can guess what that last thing is,” she said, suddenly making a connection.

Isla nodded knowingly.

“A daisy!” Sai exclaimed as Captain Joe emerged from the cabinet with a plastic daisy. He handed it to Stella.

She blushed. “Why, thank you,” she said.

“So, what are we supposed to do with this stuff?” Sai asked, spinning the globe again.

Whenever Marly, Isla, and Sai had come upon a picture of a globe, a bear, a telephone, and a daisy, they knew they were nearing the end of one of Mr. Summerling’s treasure hunts. They would “make a T” and stand on the spot where two imaginary lines drawn between the four pictures crossed. They always found something important beneath that spot.

But not this time.

They were done with Mr. Summerling’s treasure hunts. Next week, Marly, Isla, and Sai would be starting fourth grade. And Stella would be back in her office doing whatever it was attorneys did.

“These are souvenirs,...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Workshop
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0593094921
• ISBN 13: 9780593094921
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Budgen Tim
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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