Gasparilla's Treasure (Trip Mongomery Book 1) by Scott Clements

Author:Scott Clements
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-26T23:00:00+00:00

Inside the library, Josh had a stack of books piled in front of him. He flipped through one called Developing Number Concepts as Trip thumbed through the card catalogue. Trip was not sure where Sarah had gone. She had some bright idea and disappeared about twenty minutes ago.

Trip spoke in a hushed voice. “OK, I've looked at authors, titles, and subjects with NR and HP. I've looked for any book with a reference to 112979, and nothing. I've got nothing.”

“At least I've managed to find the most useless book ever written,” said Josh. “This stuff is ridiculous. I don't know if I can recover from this number horror.”

“This is impossible!” said Trip. “We're never gonna figure this thing out.”

Sarah approached wearing a triumphant look on her face. She carried a large book titled National Register of Historic Places. She plopped the book down on the table and looked from Trip to Josh as her smile seemed to be getting bigger.

“She really does like the library,” Josh said. “I am so not going to read that book!”

“What is this?” Trip asked.

“It’s the National Register of Historic Places,” said Sarah victoriously. She looked from Trip to Josh. Both of their faces were blank. They had no idea why she was so excited. She said it again, leaving plenty of time between each word. “National… Register… of Historic… Places.” Trip looked at Josh. He looked completely clueless too. Josh gave Trip a shrug and then twirled his finger around his ear and mouthed “Cuckoo. Cuckoo.”

“Seriously guys?” Sarah said. “National Register of Historic Places?” She paused for a moment. Still nothing. “N.R.H.P. You know, the letters in the clue.”

Trip’s face lit up like a Christmas tree. It was like she told him school was canceled for the rest of the year. He was again amazed by how smart Sarah was.

“How in the world did you find this?” asked Trip.

“Yeah,” said Josh. “Did you tackle that one day for some light summer reading?”

“No, smarty pants,” scoffed Sarah. “I just asked my friend that works in the reference section if NRHP meant anything to her... and she gave me this.”

“You have a friend that works in the reference section?” asked Josh.

“I like the library, OK?” said Sarah, annoyed. “And it might do you some good to put that portable game thing away every now and then and open a few books. We’ve got work to do.”

She opened the book to the table of contents as Trip and Josh gathered around. Trip could feel his heart beating faster. He knew they were about to figure out the second clue.

“There are not 112,979 pages in any book I've ever seen,” said Josh. “So it can’t be that.”

“Maybe there’s a document number or something,” said Sarah.

Trip scanned the table of contents and noticed something. “These places are all in order by the date they were recognized as historic places. Eleven, twenty-nine, seventy-nine. See if anything falls under November 29, 1979.”

Sarah turned the pages frantically searching, and found what she was looking for.

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