Alexis Tappendorf and the Search for Beale's Treasure (Paperback)

Alexis Tappendorf is about to be abandoned in Virginia for the summer by her parents, George and Jenny. They're leaving for a mysterious job they can't tell anyone about, which annoys Alexis to no end And what's worse is the fact that they're dropping her off with Great Aunt Mae, a woman in her seventies that Alexis has never met Upon arriving in Virginia, Alexis discovers that for the last hundred years the townspeople of Summervale and Bedford County have been searching for a lost treasure buried somewhere in the area by a man named Thomas J. Beale. More importantly, the only clues to finding the fortune are in the form of cryptograms, codes that, when properly translated, tell the exact location of the bounty. In a heart-pounding race to Beale's Treasure, Alexis and her new friend, Olivia Boyd, join forces to solve the Beale ciphers before the dangerous family, the Woodmores, beat them to it - a seemingly impossible task since they always appear to be one step ahead of the girls at every turn. Unless Alexis and Olivia can decipher Beale's cryptograms in time, the treasure will be lost forever or worse-it will end up in the hands of the evil Woodmores...