39 clues book report
Dowd 39 clues Book Home Summary Conflict Connection Reflection. Amy and Dan are brother and sister and Dan is 12 years old and Amy is 14 years old. There parents died when they were both very young from a fire in there house. Their Au pair's name is Nellie and she is 25 years old.
The 39 Clues: Book Two: One False Note: Gordon Korman
In the first book, The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan, we met Amy and Dan Cahill , two young kids who suddenly find themselves in a hunt for the most powerful secret in the world. Unfortunately, they are up against their vicious relatives. The 39 Clues is a multi-author series and Gordon Korman is a great person to write the second book in the series.
He is an amazing author, lately becoming an expert at writing adventure books. As usual with Gordon Korman, the book did not disappoint. They track his footsteps to Vienna, Austria, where Mozart lived. The sheet music is a special clue because it is different than the actual piece.
The extra notes are a hint! Unfortunately, however, when Amy, Dan, and their au pair, Nellie, are traveling to Vienna, they are attacked by the rival Holt family. Luckily, Dan has an amazing photographic memory , and is able to reproduce the music.
She had a diary that everyone believes has some secret information about Mozart that will be useful in the hunt. Their cousin, Jonah Wizard, is one step ahead of them, however, and snags the diary before they do. Amy and Dan manage to create a diversion, however, and get it back.
She knows a bunch of languages, and her knowledge is coming in handy. When she reads the diary, however, she learns that a few pages of the diary with the important information were ripped out. Feeling down on their luck, Amy plays the secret notes that were on the sheet music. Unfortunately, their competitors also have the same idea, and end up getting trapped in the catacombs yet again by their uncle Alastair Oh.
It is a very exciting scene and also very well written. Amy and Dan are not above taking part in the more underhanded parts of the clue hunt, and steal from Alastair Oh a clue that leads them to Venice, Italy. Jonah Wizard is already there, and they follow him into a Janus stronghold. There we learn more about the Cahill family and learn that each of the four branches Janus, Ekaterina, Lucian, and Tomas , each have their own strongholds that they conduct clue hunting out of.
They manage to steal a vital piece of information , but can they survive with the entire Janus branch after them? Will Amy and Dan win the clue, or will their rich cousins take it for themselves?
The book is exciting and also moves the plot along. It has good character development and lets us know more about the family. Korman is not quite as good as developing relatable characters as Riordan, however. This book also gives a lot of interesting historical information. I still remember stuff I learned in it. I learned about a bunch of new and exciting places and cultures. I read this more than five years ago, and I still remember the descriptions of the waterways of Venice.
It may not be quite as exciting as when the series first came out, but they are still very captivating books and will be read for years to come.
Appropriate for the Iron guy, right? How about not only every bit as good, but also better? Yeah, Tomas is totally appropriate for you! Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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Book Summary. Five minutes before she died, Grace Cahill, the rich and powerful matriarch of the Cahill family, changed her will. She left her heirs with an. Exciting mystery, heavily merchandised. Read Common Sense Media's The 39 Clues Series review, age rating, and parents guide.
Publisher: Scholastic Press; 1st edition December, Here is what I had to say after reading book one : Calling all reluctant readers! Action, mystery, suspense, and orphans, all mixed into a well-balanced, fast read. Not to mention the interactive website and collectible clue cards.
It consists of five series, The Clue Hunt , Cahills vs. Vespers , Unstoppable , Doublecross , and Superspecial.
Relatives arrive from all over the world by special invitation. For your inheritance, you may have the first of thirty-nine clues.
The 39 Clues Book 1: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan Review
There is, yes, also a book involved. These clues will lead you to a secret, which, should you find it, will make you the most powerful, influential human beings on the planet. Amy and Dan opt for the clues, pitting themselves against a cast of relatives who range from obnoxious to menacing to merely skeevy. Adventures, travel and hairbreadth escapes follow, interspersed with the odd historical anecdote, as we learn that every single famous or influential person of the past few centuries has been a member of the Cahill family. Rick Riordan, who wrote the first book and has planned the book arc, is the best-selling author of both adult and young adult mysteries. The supporting cast is, with few exceptions, made up of types: sinister spies, bullies, snobs and self-involved celebrities.
The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones
Coronavirus response: We have free resources to support you through the pandemic. Skip to Content. Plenty of accurate information is thrown in about major historical figures Ben Franklin and Mozart for starters and destinations around the globe. Cheating, stealing, breaking and entering, are all OK and almost a sport in this contest. The main characters also learn again and again not to trust anyone as one character after another double crosses them. Although this book may give kids the travel bug and pique their curiosity for more info on historical figures. Our heroes are virtuous and kind, though not always honest, and pretty much everyone else is nasty and downright evil. Even the people who start out seeming nice -- old friends of Grace Cahill, especially -- have a negative agenda. Arson, explosions, and traps, all designed to kill, or at least sideline, the child heroes.
Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Maze of Bones - 39 Clues 1 Amy and Dan Cahill goes around the world to discover their family's secrets and the possibility of becoming the most powerful human by winning their family's race to the 39 Clues. The story follows the adventures of Amy Cahill, 14 years old and Dan Cahill, 11 years old, both grandchildren of Grace Cahill.
In the first book, The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan, we met Amy and Dan Cahill , two young kids who suddenly find themselves in a hunt for the most powerful secret in the world. Unfortunately, they are up against their vicious relatives.
The 39 Clues Series
It was September, , more than five years ago now. After all, my favorite author, Gordon Korman who had just come to my school a few months earlier , was involved in the series and was going to write the second book. The plot sounded super interesting , plus the series was supplemented by an exciting online game where you could collect clues, do missions, and even win prizes. Plus, all my friends were reading it. The series has honestly grown kind of long-in-the-tooth now; certainly nothing like those exciting times when we were all trying to figure out the mysteries of this exciting new world. They are orphans under the care of their aunt , Beatrice Cahill. Unfortunately, their cool grandmother Grace Cahill recently died , and Amy and Dan are attending the funeral. Grace was awesome and Amy and Dan used to spend the weekends at her house. In a video Grace recorded, she makes an astonishing announcement. Anyone who collects these clues will become the most powerful person in the world. Grace gives her descendants a choice: A million dollars or one clue. They realize, however, that Beatrice will find a way to steal their money if they choose to accept it.
First Prize: World Domination
The novel has received generally positive reviews. Many of the well-known names in history are said to be part of the real-life Cahill family, making it "the most powerful family in the world. Names such as Marie Curie , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Napoleon Bonaparte , and George Washington were all part of one of the four family branches—the power-hungry Lucians, the strong and sporty Tomas, the inventive Ekaterinas, and the creative Janus, as well as the Madrigals. Dan and Amy are warned to "beware the Madrigals," but what the Madrigals are is not revealed in this novel. While most of the characters in the book know which branch they belong to as shown throughout the series , the main characters do not. The story begins with Grace Cahill lying on her deathbed. She requests that William McIntyre, her lawyer, change her will to the alternate version, and she soon dies after it is changed. After he is sure she is truly dead, a "man in black" steps out of the shadows and talks with McIntyre. The main characters, Amy and Dan Cahill, are then introduced. They are Grace's grandchildren going to her funeral at her mansion with Grace's sister and their guardian Aunt Beatrice.
