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It's the last week of the summer holidays and 12-year-old Lou Elliott and her friends Jack, also 12, and his younger siblings David and Emily go camping on farmland near the historic city of Lichfield in Staffordshire - hunting for missing treasure. Bookworm David believes that a long-lost Anglo Saxon hoard of gold and silver remains undiscovered near where the world-famous Staffordshire Hoard was dug up in 2009. The others think that’s unlikely but it's a good excuse to get together again and have fun away from the grown-ups. Emily is scared they’ll encounter danger again. The others reassure her, but who knows? And when 14-year-old farmer’s daughter Becky takes a dislike to them, there's sure to be trouble brewing of some kind.Children's novels by George Chedzoy:LOU ELLIOTT MYSTERY ADVENTURE SERIES:1. Smugglers at Whistling Sands2. The Missing Treasure3. Something Strange in the Cellar4. Trouble at Chumley Towers5. Secrets in the MountainsCartwright Fantasy Adventure Series:The Mystery of the Misty WoodsThe Mystery of the Message in a BottleRapunzel: My True Story--------------Extract from The Missing Treasure:The sky in the east was pink and grey, streaked with yellow. The sun was about to rise above the hills but hadn't done so yet. Without needing to look at her watch, Lou knew that it must be about 6am. Half a dozen clangs of the church bell confirmed that. She leaned against a tree and watched wistfully as the golden orb of the sun appeared, sending forth warm beams of light and making the spire and weather vane on the village church shine. It was sure to be another nice day and pretty hot too, she guessed. They would do well to make an early start with the metal detector.

Lou, aged 12, goes camping with her friends Jack, his brother David and sister Emily on farmland near the historic city of Lichfield in Staffordshire, on the hunt for missing treasure. Bookworm David is convinced that a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver remains undiscovered near to where the famous Staffordshire Hoard was dug up. The others think that's nonsense, but so what? It's a great excuse to get together again for their second adventure. Emily, still only 10, is scared they'll encounter danger again. The older children reassure her but what they didn't bargain for was feisty farmer's daughter Becky, aged 14, who takes an instant dislike to them. There's sure to be trouble ahead . . .