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Diamonds Are For Never: Crime Travelers Spy School Mystery & International Adventure Series Book 2
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Product Description This second installment in the international 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: 740L | 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. | DIAMONDS ARE FORE NEVER continues the international excitement of The Crime Travelers Adventure Series | Also available: Book 1: BRAINWASHED & Book 3: PRICELESS When a rogue group of modern-day pirates pushes everything important to the edge of life, Lucas Benes becomes a boy on a mission. After sabotaging a mass kidnapping in Paris, Lucas Benes faces a new and perilous threat from Siba Günerro and her anything-but-good Good Company. When a briefcase-toting kid from the Falkland Islands joins the New Resistance Spy School, 14-year-old Lucas learns the truth about his mother and becomes a boy on a mission. Lucas and friends speed in and around Rome--from the Colosseum to the Vatican--until they stowaway on a cargo ship carrying diamonds that could unlock the secret to Lucas's past and destroy the Good Company's future. In this action-packed second installment of the Crime Travelers International Spy School Mystery series, author Paul Aertker takes readers on a gripping world tour filled with adrenaline, humor, and pure excitement. Diamonds Are For Never is the second book in this bestselling Crime Travelers collection. The first book in the series, Brainwashed (#1 Amazon Best Selling Children's Travel Books), tracks the secret urban adventures of the New Resistance, a network of international teenage spies. This humorous and exciting middle school series with short chapters is perfect for school reading lists, summer reading, or holiday gifts. Parents, teachers, and librarians will appreciate the worldwide geography and appropriate language for ages 9 - 14. "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." Review An international adventure with a thoughtful layer of emotion, Diamonds Are for Never is a smart choice for young readers. - Foreword Reviews MORE PRAISE FOR CRIME TRAVELERS "Hilarious - an endlessly clever action-adventure." "As a middle school educator, I particularly appreciate how math helps Lucas and his team escape danger at every corner." "Kids from ten up should relish its campy flavor of excitement and thrills." "Perfectly-sized chapters serve as success points for the middle-grade reader." "Kids who love spy action adventure stories will love this series." "The past comes into play in a sophisticated tangle of emotional backstory and history interspersed with moments of adrenaline-fueled action sequences that involve a Belgian diamond mine, the illegal ivory trade, and an innovative team of modern kids who can crack complicated codes, think fast on their feet, and calmly Uber over to facilitate a jailbreak. Meanwhile our antagonist, "Siba Günerro is delightfully wicked as the evil mastermind behind the deceptively named Good Company with her over-the-top themed ensembles." - Foreword Reviews "As soon as you open page one, Crime Travelers is like going on vacation." - 5th grade English teacher I am a ten ye
