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Tony has saved $300, enough to buy a small sailboat. He will use it every day during his three-week stay with his grandmother on the Connecticut shore. Once Tony learns to sail, he starts exploring the waters around a group of tiny islands offshore. One day, he sees two people in diving gear on a motorboat. But instead of greeting him, they wave him away. The next time he sees them, he discovers that they will do anything to hide what they have found....

A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention...

Forced out of archaeology after a dig that resulted in a colleague's death, lawyer Jonathan Marcus is sent to Rome to testify against an official whom he subsequently aids during a high-stakes search for a priceless historical artifact.

Wiglaf and the other students of Dragon Slayers' Academy take a class trip to the Dark Forest into the Cave of Doom, which supposedly contains the gold of the dragon Seetha.

Two boys make up a series of treasure hunts for each other , with disastrous and hilarious results.