The Treasure Hunters: Padre Island Kids

By Jerry DeLay III

The Treasure Hunters, is the first book in the series, Padre Island Kids. It deals strictly with finding treasure on or near Padre Island. Some of it is fact based fiction. This book is suitable for children. It has no sexual content and there are no curse words. It is a great, clean, teenager book, only fifty-seven pages long. It can be used as a children's book as well with adult "read to" assistance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387786756

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The Treasure Hunters, Padre Island Kids

Written by Jerry Dale DeLay III

Edited by:  Debbie Wimberly DeLay and Lisa Walsh

Cover Design Courtesy of Carlos Bonilla, donation made JDDIII

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Copyright 2022 All rights reserved Jerry Dale DeLay III

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except as may be expressly permitted by the applicable copyright statues or in writing by the Publisher.

Manufactured in the United States of America

978-1-387-78675-6

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Again, this is fiction, and we did no digging or metal detecting on Padre Island National Seashore or land bordering the coast near Refugio, Texas.

Again, this is purely a work of fiction.

THE TREASURE HUNTERS

PADRE ISLAND KIDS

BOOK ONE IN THE SERIES PADRE ISLAND KIDS

The Characters:

Dale Delaney:

Compare me to Spanky in the Little Rascals or Ham Porter as the catcher in Sandlot.  My son disagrees and says I would be Squints Palledorous, the guy that ended up marrying Wendy Peffercorn the lifeguard in Sandlot. I have been told I would be Chunk, the kid that faked throwing up over the balcony at the picture show in Goonies. I was special teams, the guy that made the tackle on every punt and kickoff. He was always talking smack.

Lonnie Delaney:

He is big John from the song Big Bad John. He is my little brother, bigger than me. He was bigger than everybody and stronger, even though he was two years younger than us. He was the biggest guy on our football team, Left Tackle and All District. He went both ways. He never left the field.

Bill Protte:

Would be the character played by the dog, Barnyard Dawg in Foghorn Leghorn. Very calm, cool, and dry witted. He was the right tackle on offense and defense, All District. He never left the field his