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Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a renegade. Charlie Thorne isn't going down without a fight.
After tracking down incredible discoveries by Einstein and Darwin, Charlie is back. This time, the great ruler Cleopatra has left behind an extremely valuable and powerful treasure, its location encoded on an ancient stone tablet.
In 30 BCE, Cleopatra and her husband, Marc Antony, lost their war against Octavian for control of the Egyptian Empire. However, Cleopatra knew Octavian was really after the mysterious item that was the source of all her wealth and influence, so she hid it before dying by suicide. She left a series of devious clues behind for her children to find it, but they were lost to history...until now.
In a breathless adventure that takes her across the globe, Charlie must fight for her life against ruthless enemies, match wits with Cleopatra, and solve the two-thousand-year-old mystery to prevent the most powerful treasure of the ancient world from falling into the wrong hands.
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Release date
June 7, 2022 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781534499362
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- ISBN: 9781534499362
- File size: 6887 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 6.4
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 5
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April 1, 2022
How better to celebrate a 13th birthday than by following clues to a priceless treasure hidden for more than 2,000 years while being hotly pursued by armed thugs and Black Ops units? Still by far the smartest person in every room she enters, Charlie continues her quest to track down the world's greatest treasures while keeping herself and the fantastically dangerous formula only she knows out of the hands of an increasing number of intelligence agencies and other bad actors. A bit of ancient steganography sends her, with her half brother, Dante, and his partner, Milana, both CIA agents, from Giza to the Acropolis, the Roman Forum and then the Metropolitan Museum of Art--for, at each stop, a new clue or artifact paired to heavy infodumps about the locale's historical and archaeological highlights. Not to mention one or more ambushes with, occasionally, gunfire, one or more high-speed chases (including one in a chariot, which is at least different), and chances for Charlie's overachieving sidekicks each to take out entire squads of gunmen sent by the Israeli Mossad, the Egyptian Mukhabarat, an Egyptian billionaire, and even the CIA. The prize turns out to be worth the kerfuffle, but even though this is only the third episode, the plot is all manufactured action strung together with mechanical predictability. The characterizations are equally facile. Multiracial Charlie is described as having globally diverse racial origins. Rattles along to thrill-a-minute tracks, but the series shows signs of losing steam. (Action adventure. 10-14)COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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