Mark of the Pirate

Mark Morgan thinks doing his 7th grade schoolwork, playing music and practical jokes, hunting for Missouri River Pirate treasure, joining a robot combat team and being picked on by a senior bully only partly due to Mark making a fool out of him on occasion…well, okay, pretty much all the time…complicates his life enough until the bully’s friend, Anh, tries to involve him in a conspiracy theory where his new school which holds such promise also holds a dark side, a side of strange disappearances that only Anh and the mysterious Grendel knows are happening, that he’s the next in line to go and no mad scientist, giant robot, haunted doll or flying yellow buffalo can save him.