We Are Not Eaten By Yaks

Eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel do not like adventures--in fact, they would have preferred it if they had been left out of this story altogether. But, alas, they had no choice in the matter. Unfortunately for the twins, they live on the 4-1/2th floor of the Explorers Club with their parents who are world-famous adventurers and daredevils, and so have been dragged from continent to continent their entire lives. Even worse, their mother has gone missing, and their father has bet the evil Sir Edmund S. Tithletorpe-Schmidt III that he'll find her and make one of the greatest discoveries in history. And the stakes of his bet? Oliver and Celia will be his servants until they graduate from high school. Which, when you have only just finished fifth grade, is a long way off. So, the twins must give up their summer of television and head to Tibet where they fall out of airplanes, battle Yetis, discover secret caves, fly over waterfalls, and ride one very large yak. If they can survive their ordeal, if they can decipher the clues, and if they can outwit Sir Edmund, they might just reunite their family, save the world . . . and get cable television. We shall hope, for their sake, that they do.


Genre: Children's Fiction