By: Abbi Lee
Format: Available in Paperback, ePub, and MOBI
Genre: Contemporary Adventure
Ghost Town Treasure Hunt
Book 1 in the Geocache Club Series
THE BEST KIND OF TREASURE HUNT
When his best friend moves away, eleven-year-old Layton Clark wonders if he’ll ever have another adventure. Then he meets Sherry. She introduces him to the treasure-hunting world of geocaching. A contagious thirst for adventure sends them hunting for mysterious geocaches popping up in random places—like an abandoned Kansas ghost town.
Layton and Sherry must work together to unlock the clues in the strange geocaches, solve a 100 year old mystery to clear a dead man’s name, and convince Layton’s archaeologist father the town is worth studying further so his family doesn’t have to move.
With everything he holds dear at stake, Layton can’t afford to leave a single headstone unscrubbed, or geocache treasure undiscovered.
Meet Abbi Lee,
the author of Ghost Town Treasure Hunt
Jennifer Clower –
Layton Clark is not a fan of change of any kind and he is dealing with a lot of fears/anxiety regarding change and new experiences/situations. This makes things difficult, because even though Layton may have lived in his small town for all of his life, but he is struggling to make a new best friend after his friend Charlie has moved away. Shortly after the school year starts, Layton meet Sherry a new girl to his hometown. She introduces him to the world of geocaching and that is the jump start to a new mysterious adventure and a new friendship for the two of them. Through this new friendship, Layton learns a lot about facing his fears and learning how to work through new situations, becoming more open as the story goes. I love that the main character is a big reader and the book is peppered with his references to books that he has enjoyed and how real life situations compare to scenes from the books; added a few things to my “To Be Read” list for sure! The references to geocaching were explained well and in such a way that it made me want to try it for myself…sounds like real life treasure hunting! The book is the first in the series and the mystery is just getting going, so just a warning that there is no tidy ending here! I received an advance reader copy of this book from Chicken Scratch Books however, my review is voluntary and reflects my personal opinion.