It all started when Tracy and Ryan, bored out of their minds on a rainy day, started to rummage through old trunks up in Grandma’s attic.  Under a pile of dusty boards, Ryan found an odd chest with a peculiar lock.  It contained old-fashioned seaman’s clothes and a parchment containing coded directions for finding gold buried over 250 years ago.  Signatures on the message were of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and two of his crewmen mentioned in library books!  Naturally, the kids were eager to find and dig it up right away.  Trouble was, the directions used hills and a navigation beacon as reference points to locate it, and nobody knew where those hills and that beacon were. 

 With a neighbor friend, Jimmy, and with the help of Grandma and Mr. Jamison, Grandma’s handyman, the kids decided to find that treasure or bust.  It wasn’t easy though, especially since some unknown person found out about the message and threatened the little band, trying to steal the directions and beat them to the treasure.  The urgent search took them to libraries, history experts, old maps, and a local sea captain.  What counted most, however, was using their heads in figuring out the pieces of the puzzle.  When all the pieces came together, the message finally made sense.  Was the treasure still there after all those years, or had one of the three men who buried it come back and dug it up?