![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() ![]() Move over Swiss Family Robinson, Daisy Tannenbaum has swung into action in this first in a series of adventure stories that will be enjoyed by readers young and old. But that doesn't stop Daisy from having the time of her life finding buried treasure, fighting off sharks, pirates, and scorpion attacks, and rescuing her family despite herself. Nothing ruins paradise like having your stupid family around. Her parents are barely on speaking terms, her sister wants to crush Daisy’s skull with a rock, and a grad student Daisy’s dad may or may not have had a thing with ends up washed ashore with them. Her family, however, is utterly unprepared to cope with the primitive conditions on the island. So, when she ends up on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean after her family is accidentally kidnapped by Malay pirates, she’s totally psyched. Daisy arrives to find her enigmatic Aunt Mill moonlighting as a cryptographer, working to decipher an antique code used by Louis XVIs secret service during their covert operation to recover the infamous Queens Diamonds from Comtesse de la Motte. Eleven-year-old Daisy Tannenbaum, tomboy extraordinaire, doesn’t want to go back to school. ![]()
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