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ClarionRating®: 5/5: "The Crime Travelers series combines action and adventure with global awareness and smart humor." This second installment in the international action-packed Crime Travelers series from Amazon best-selling author Paul Aertker is a mind-opening adventure for elementary and middle-grade readers of Gordon Korman, James Patterson, and John Grisham. Also available: Book 1: BRAINWASHED & Book 3: PRICELESS for Ages 8 - 14 Grades: 3 - 8 | Now with over 300 GEOGRAPHIC REFERENCES plus illustrative s! Funny. Smart. Action. FREE shipping when you get all 3 books in the series! Readers (and parents and teachers) will appreciate the step up in smart reading. This humorous and exciting middle school series with its short chapters is perfect for school reading lists. If your children love excitement, don't miss this action-packed series! 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 kipping 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 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 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 the 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. "This mystery book is like a secret diary of lost kids in adverse international settings." A secret rider uses Kano, Minecraft, and Psion to help the kids travel the planet. Parents, teachers, and librarians will appreciate the worldwide geography and appropriate language for ages 9 - 14. "I am a 5th-grade teacher, and this " 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." Shelve under: books for boys, books for girls, books for kids, travel with kids, books for kids age 9 - 12, books for middle grade, books for boys 9 - 12, books for girls 9 - 12, funny hilarious stories for kids, Diary of a Wimpy kid readers, reluctant readers, Alex Rider, Minecraft readers, appropriate books for kids, librarian-approved.