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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2012 | Fiction
Gr 8 Up–Seventeen-year-old Susannah, her family, and an 18-year-old crewman are sailing from California to Hawaii. The trip starts out nicely until they are driven by a storm into the path of a drifting powerboat. The mysterious vessel is carrying two dead bodies and a stash of 100 dollar bills. For Susannah an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2012
As seventeen-year-old Susannah, her parents, her cousin Martin, and crew member Axel voyage to Hawaii aboard Athena's Secret, little do they know they are sailing into a deadly confrontation with professional criminals. From a plane above, Jeremy, son of a drug lord, and hired guns Elwood and Shako seek a drifting ghost ship and missing money from the illegal sale of machine guns and rocket launchers. The meeting of pleasure cruisers ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More