Beach Camper Caper: A Wacky Vacation Treasure Hunt Mystery Adventure with Coded Clues

Dive in today! This entertaining and thought-provoking young adult mystery is filled with humorous camping adventures, engaging computer logic puzzles, and a heartfelt self-discovery journey that will keep you guessing to the end. Crack the clues and you just might discover yourself! It's the summer of 1999, and fourteen-year-old Mandy Mardell's idyllic beach camping vacation plunges into hilarious chaos when her grandmother's beloved childhood camping scrapbook mysteriously vanishes from its hiding spot in Mandy's tent and is replaced with a cryptic ransom note. Without revealing her own backpack full of scrapbook-related secrets, Mandy convinces her reluctant cousin Kyle and his goofball friends Sam and Reese to join her on a wacky campground-wide search and rescue mission. Armed with repurposed camping supplies, the four teens follow a trail of buried clues while distracting quirky campers, bending campground rules, and dodging citation-writing rangers. Between mishaps, Mandy's slightly dorky brainiac side, which she wants to keep concealed, grasps the computer logic and numbering in the coded clues. As she applies her unique code-cracking skills, the guys begin to view her as the only possible suspect. Now Mandy is forced to confront her own deceptions if she is to outwit the real booknapper before vacation ends, and so much more than the scrapbook is lost for good. View Less