内容简介
In1965,aBritishvesselnamedtheGriffinsankwithapricelessamountofgoldonboard.Now,centurieslater,fourkidsaretryingtoraisetheGriffin'streasurefromthesea.Kaz,Dante,Adriana,andStarmusttakethebiggestriskoftheirlives...anddiscoverthattheywon'tbeabletotrustanybody-eventhemselves.
作者简介
GordonKorman(bornOctober23,1963)isaCanadianauthor,primarilyofnovelsforchildrenandyoungadults.HelivesinLongIsland'sGreatNeck,NewYork,withhiswifeandthreechildren.Kormanwrotehisfirstbookunexpectedlywhenhewastwelveyearsold.Whilein7thgradeatGermanMillsPublicSchool,his7thgradeEnglishwritingassignmentbecamethemanuscriptforKorman'sfirstbookThisCan'tBeHappeningatMacdonaldHall,thefirstbookinhisBrunoandBootsseries.Mr.Hamilton,Korman's7thgradeEnglishteacher,wasatrackandfieldcoachwhosuddenlyfoundhimselfteachingEnglishforthefirsttime.Hamiltonrequiredstudentstowriteanovelduringthesemester.KormanwastheScholasticArrowBookClubmonitorfortheclass;aftercompletingtheassignment,hemailedhismanuscripttoScholastic.ThisCan'tBeHappeningatMacdonaldHallwaspublishedbyScholasticPressin1978whenKormanwasonlyfourteenyearsold.BeforegraduatingfromhighschoolinThornhill,Ont.,Kormanwroteandpublishedfivebooks.Kormanhaswrittenmorethan75bookswhichhavesoldmorethan7millioncopiesinacareerthathasspannedfivedecades.
