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first Ryan finds  a map that he thinks might mean something. He then finds out that each thing on the map does mean something. Sarah is going on a road trip right at the right time. Ryan's job is to come up with what the map means. Sarah's job is to find the objects. the climax of the book is when Sarah is at the school looking through a bunch of doors. She then sees something out of the corner of her eye. This thing happens to be the Ghost Of Old Joe Bush. Then after many hours of work they find all of the things and Sarah returns to her home on the east coast.

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the mood of the book is kind of upbeat because they are always moving. When Sarah leaves for her road trip she knows that she is on a tight schedule and that she is going to have to keep moving to get to California but she has to stop at all the spots to get the artifacts so she always has to keep moving. Another mood is eerie because they always have to watch there back because the ghost of old Joe Bush could be there at any moment.

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one theme throughout the book series is Ryan and Sarah's friendship. Throughout the series even through the bad times Ryan and Sarah stay together because they know that they work well together. For example when Sarah finds the first artifact she gives Ryan a hard time about not being there. But they still stay together and now they are trying to find more artifacts.

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one of the minor characters in the book series is Sarah, she is Ryan's friend. Sarah's job throughout the book is to find all of the artifacts after Ryan finds out what the map means.

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One dream that Ryan has is to find out what Old Joe Bush is doing with the secret society called the Crossbones.

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Sarah and Ryan are looking for clues that lead to artifacts which move them forward in the map. But they have to go all around the country to find these. A problem is that the ghost of Old Joe Bush is haunting them.

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Ryan also has many flaws, one of them is clumsiness. While searching through the haunted stuff he falls and also drops things.

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The main character Ryan has many strengths. One of his strengths is smarts, he is very smart and has many different area's where he shows his smarts toward his goal of finding out what the symbols mean.

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the dredge in Skeleton creek . This is where the whole series started. the environment is kind of eerie because the whole town is haunted.