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Nine-year-old Tyler has a dream life.
His family's oceanside marine life park is all he's ever known and the sea
animals his closest friends.
But when developers threaten to buy out the park
due to its fading attendance and dwindling finances, he plots with his cousin,
nine-year-old Aaron, to find a buried treasure rumored to exist somewhere on the
property. A treasure buried centuries ago by one of their ancestors, the
notorious pirate, Blackbeard.
Hanging on the park's
restaurant wall is a treasured family heirloom map which
supposedly pinpoints the location of the treasure, but critical information is
missing due to a lost torn corner of the map.
Then, items discovered in a family trunk
of heirlooms provide more clues for the cousins as do the mumblings and puzzles
of a couple of the small town's oldest citizens.
When mysterious events take
place to thwart the search and bring down the demise of the old theme park, the
boys realize someone else believes in the stories of gold and silver.
The cousins find themselves in danger
the deeper they delve, and eventually meet up with Blackbeard himself.
They find
out the rumors about the treasure are quite true, but the ones about the
legendary pirate are not. He is not the notorious Blackbeard, but their own
great-great-great-great grandfather, Captain Parker-Bond, a Robin Hood of the
High Seas.
They go back in time to experience their ancestor's true pirate life
and witness the burial of the treasure and the drawing of the map.
Upon returning to the present day, a
continuing series of mysterious events pave the way to finding the treasure's
location and the truth behind the strange happenings at the park.
In the end, when things are really
getting bleak, they find the missing map piece, figure out the meaning of the
numbers and discover the location of the treasure, which has been under their
feet the entire time. The park is saved and the bad guys exposed and captured.
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