In Too Deep is the story of high school student, Annie Fleet. Annie is a shy girl who goes to Pinedale Academy with some of the most famous high school students in Los Angeles. Some are famous for their own acting careers. Some are famous because of parents who work in the entertainment industry. Annie is neither, but her father is a teacher at the school, so she is allowed to go there tuition free. After school, Annie works in her family's dive shop and gives lessons to inexperienced divers. Annie's grand crush is on Josh whose mother is a famous actress. Josh is unattainable until she saves his life when he panics during a diving lesson. Annie, Josh, and two other students from school take a trip to Mexico to help hurricane victims, but the trip turns into much more when their teacher tells them about the search for the Golden Jaguar and takes them diving for clues off the Mexican coast.
This is an exciting treasure hunting adventure mixed in with teen angst and high school crushes. Annie is a character that is easy to like and Josh lives up to her real-life expectations. Both characters grow and change in a good way as they work together to research the history of the Golden Jaguar and figure who they can trust. The ending moves very quickly with lots of technical information that makes it a little hard to follow, but the build up is well worth the effort. Overall, a very good story that is well written and researched. ( )

Finally! A romantic teen novel with a great historical/action/adventure plot with a scuba diving twist. Loved it!

Annie is a scuba diving pro, even though she’s only 15 years old.

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Annie Fleet doesn't fit in as well as she'd like at the exclusive private school she attends. She's on scholarship because her dad teaches there. He gave her his love of history and of lost treasure ships, but lost his own enthusiasm along the way. Her mom runs a barely breaking-even dive shop. Scuba diving is Annie's other passion. Most of the teens attending the school have rich and famous parents like Josh, the son of a famous movie star that she's crushing on. There's no way on earth, she'll ever get even a glance from him, or is there?
When Josh wants to get certified so he can dive on a trip his mother is planning, he uses Mom's shop, but Mom thinks Annie's better qualified to teach him. Josh, however, blows off the manual and what Annie is trying to teach him. The result is his nearly drowning in the practice pool and Annie has to perform rescue breathing. It's not the way she's imagined their mouths meeting, but it starts a slightly different connection between them, one that will drive her nuts as the story progresses.
Annie, Josh and siblings Kate and Nate are the only ones in her history class willing to sign on for a humanitarian trip with their teacher. Annie desperately wants to take her diving gear along, but Mom and Dad nix that. However, when the teens reach their destination, it's soon clear that something else is going on. When their teacher convinces them that he may know the location of a clue to the Golden Jaguar, a huge gold statue supposedly left behind by Cortez, Annie's all over diving for it, even if it means doing so at night and in unfamiliar waters. She's nearly killed in the process, but finds something that just might lead to the mythical statue.
Unsure who to trust, she decides to keep her find a secret until she can figure out what to do. This is where things speed up and get really interesting. Between her roller-coaster relationship with Josh, made even more up and down because she's pretty clueless about guy stuff, and the way she and Josh have to try and stay one step ahead of the bad guys, the story grabs you and doesn't let go until the last page. There's a great mix of action, mystery and romance here, creating a book that teens will really like. ( )

This is a good old-fashioned treasure-hunting adventure. Well, maybe not exactly old-fashioned. Annie is an expert scuba diver, seeing as how her mother owns a dive shop in Los Angeles, and she is way into the historical treasures that have been lost over the centuries, thanks to her history teacher and treasure loving father. These two things lead Annie to an adventure she never dreamed she could be a part of. Full review on Tahleen's Mixed-Up Files. ( )

5 STARS

In Too Deep was fun, action, treasure hunting and dangerous. Just enjoyed it. Makes me want to go diving. It is a clean read on top of it.
Annie is a strong teenager character. She helps her mom in the dive shop. She is giving Josh a private lesson he does not take it serious and almosts drowns. Annie quick thinking caught them both up out of the pool and started CPR. Annie goes to a private school because her dad is a teacher their.

Josh is famous because his mom his a famous actress. He is goodlooking and is on a lot of magazine covers.

One of the teachers is fixing up a spring break trip to Mexico. They will help clean up after disaster and part treasure hunt. No one except Annie wants to go. Some kids get caught cheating and have to go as punishment. The field trip is not what it is supposed to be.

Annie is asked to do a night dive in a really risky area and then things get more dangerous. Annie does not know who to trust and what to do next.

Lots of underwater dives, treasure hunt all over. Annie's friends come to help her. I hope they do go on more treasure hunts.

I was given this ebook to read and asked to give honest review of it by Netgalley.
July 2013 by Disney Hyperion 336 pages ISBN:1423140354 ( )