Twins Ike and Iris aren't just your average ten-year-olds. Ike is a genius who is super into American history and Iris is an elite athlete with next level spacial awareness.

They live in Washington D.C. where their mom runs a boutique museum. And on the opening night of the newest exhibit an artifact is stolen by a girl their age before their eyes. 

They chase the girl around New England as they anticipate her next targets by finding clues with the help of a historian at The National Archives. But with the twins being at each crime scene, the FBI suspects they might be involved! They have to clean their family's name and save the artifacts before it is too late!

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I flew through this book in a day. Which, for a book I read on Kindle is saying a lot during this season of life. I love a treasure hunt/heist novel or tv show or movie and this one was like catnip to me. It references continually the movie National Treasure in a tongue in cheek way that really amused me. But also I LOVE the movie National Treasure (and I definitely watched it after reading this). 

Other than the treasure hunt element, which honestly is hard to top for me, some other things really worked in this story. 

The narrative voice of each of the twins. Their personalities were distinct and I loved getting each of their perspectives.

This book isn't technology heavy. The twins don't even have smart phones. I LOVE that this is modeled in a middle grade novel. 

The plethora of historical fact and geography of D.C. that fit into the story. This book could have easily been bogged down by this information, but it propped up the story instead. 

One note about Ike's personality: he is BLUNT. He is called out on how he talks to and treats people, but regularly calls people idiots and handles them as such. I wish he would have been disciplined a bit more for this, but I have a feeling he will gain some tact over this series.