There, he witnesses fellow inmate Tippy Tinkletrousers (aka Professor Poopypants) escape in a giant Robo-Suit (later reduced to time-traveling trousers). To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”). Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty.

Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. More important, it delivers.Ī high-seas adventure that will entice even the most confirmed of landlubbers. (Adventure. This new series promises it all: ruthless pirates, CIA spies, terrorists, stolen works of art and priceless treasure. A fast-moving plot, copious illustrations and short chapters will encourage even reluctant readers to test the waters. Wacky hijinks, a can’t-miss setting and quirky characters keep this breezy story afloat. But even the most sea-hearty adventurers might flounder when facing the Pirate King. Luckily, the Kidd kids’ assets include Storm’s photographic memory, Tommy’s calm disposition, Beck’s hard-nosed negotiation skills and narrator Bick’s optimism. But it is hard to know whom to trust when your allies are shady black-market dealers and spies and your enemies are ruthless pirates and dangerous surfer dudes. When their father, professor Tom Kidd, is washed overboard in a storm, it is up to the four young fortune hunters to follow the clues and try to rescue their missing mother. Raised on board a ship and schooled in sailing, navigation, scuba and karate, Tommy, Storm, Bick and Beck are no strangers to adventure.

The disappearance of their parents inspires four children to take over the family business: treasure hunting.

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