Description
Product Description
This third installment in the popular action-packed Crime Travelers Spy School series from Amazon-best-selling and award-winning author Paul Aertker is a mind-opening adventure for elementary and middle-grade readers of Gordon Korman, James Patterson, and Stuart Gibbs.
"The Crime Travelers series combines action and adventure with global awareness and smart humor." ClarionRating®:5 Stars
Lexile® Measure: 720L | AR Points from Renaissance Accelerated Reader® | Parents, teachers, and librarians will appreciate the worldwide geography and appropriate language for Ages 8 - 14 Grades: 3 - 8 | #1 Amazon best-selling series in Children's Travel | 300 Geographic References plus illustrative maps! | FUNNY. SMART. ACTION. | PRICELESS continues the international invasion of The Crime Travelers Spy School Adventure Series | Also available: Book 1: BRAINWASHED & Book 2: DIAMONDS ARE FOR NEVER
Lucas Benes faces his greatest challenge yet when he finds a secret message from his mother hidden inside a sunken cargo container. In a near-death scuba diving experience, Lucas and the New Resistance kids learn that Good Company CEO Siba Günerro -- along with her newest and most beautiful Curukians -- is planning a massive art heist. Lucas and friends scour the Spanish countryside looking for clues. But to unravel the mysteries of both the robbery and the cryptic message, Lucas must first discover the only thing that is worth more than priceless.
"If it's opposite day, it could already be opposite of opposite, which would be confusing." If you find this line puzzling, then you might understand why the kids of the New Resistance are able to rattle the Good Company yet again in Priceless.
This funny, smart, and exciting middle-grade series with short chapters is perfect for elementary school and middle school reading lists. The series is designed for kids ages 9 – 12, for boys and for girls—a book series for all kids, the world over.
"I am a 5th-grade teacher, and this "spy school" series has exciting international plots, interesting characters, great hidden geography lessons, and short chapters that keep the pages turning for middle-grade readers. Perfect for summer reading lists."
"If you liked Alex Rider, you'll love Crime Travelers."
"This middle-grade series reads like the Bourne Identity, but for kids."
From the Author
As a traveler and multilingual teacher, Paul has clocked nearly half his life outside the US. When he was a teenager, he slept on the streetsof London to watch a royal wedding. He took the CIA exam because he wanted tobe a spy for the good guys (and not the Good Company). He was an au pair in France and built a children's library in Africa.
"I write shorter stories that I would have wanted to read when I wasten, eleven, twelve-- realistic and exciting international espionage novels steeped in mystery, intrigue, and deception. I want children to see that the impossible may in fact be possible, and that children may have more power than they think. This middle school series is set in international locales because travel has made me feel alive and given me an insatiable curiosity to learn.
A former middle school teacher, Aertker says he writes for this age group because he relates to it."I act like a child," he says with a laugh. "My emotional level doesn't really go past age eleven! For me to write for this age group is easy because I can get there pretty quickly."
From the Inside Flap
Shelve under: books for boys, books for girls, books for kids age 9 - 12, books for middle grade, funny, hilarious stories for kids, diary of a wimpy kid readers, Alex Rider, Minecraft readers, appropriate books for kids, librarian-approved.
From the Back Cover
PUBLISHER'S STARRED REVIEW © FSP 2017 -
Every now and then a book comes along that captures the spirit of reading for boys and girls. This Crime Travelers series has it all: the action, the adventure, and the travel to other places. This series, however, se