My mom started reading these books and got SO into them, she bought the whole series. She tried to persuaid me into reading them, but I didn't have time, so I refused. A few months later, I decided to give the first one a try because I needed a book for my reading homework. At first I just read a couple chapters, but then it got really interesting. Before you know it, I'm through the first five books and I can't stop reading them. This first book is about fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her really cute eleven-year-old brother Dan Cahill. Their grandma Grace dies and they attend the funeral at her mansion with their crabby blue-haired legal-guardian Aunt Beatrice because their parents died in a fire. They know that everyone else is only there to inherit Grace's fortune, but they were the closest ones to Grace and they were there because they loved her so much. Amy, Dan, rich Ian and Natalie Kabra, the muscular Holts, Russian Irina Spatsky, and their Uncle Alistair Oh, popstar Jonah Wizard, and a few others are invited into another room where they are asked if they would take a million dollars each, OR if they would take part in a perilous clue hunt to find the large power of the family. Aunt Beatrice threatens them and tells them that if they don't take the cash, she will unown them and give them to social services. They take the clue hunt to agrivate Aunt Beatrice and start with the first clue. They start an alliance with their Uncle Alistair and look in the libraury and find a first edition Poor Richard's Almanac with their mother's writing in it. The mansion catches on fire and they have just enough time to save Grace's cat, Saladin. Alistair makes off with the book. Amy and Dan trick their "Au Paree" (babysitter) into taking them to France to find the next clue. I loved this book and I'm sure that you will, too. Especially if you love mystery, adventure, and know Amy and Dan's motto- "Trust no one," which is so true in the clue hunt.
The Maze of Bones (39 Clues, No. 1)
By Rick Riordan
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 2 - 5 | U | 4.3 | 45905 |
Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue."
Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what REALLY happened to their parents.
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I decided to read this book because some author came to our school and told us he wrote some of the books in this series. Then he started to explain it so me and my mom went to the library and I got it. I started reading it yesterday and I just can't put it down. I am already 3/4 of the way through it. You have got to read it!
I've read all 11 books. I can't wait to read book number 12. If you love crime solving, mystery, action, twisted, adventure, touching, heart racing, blood pumping, exiting books then you will love these books.
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This book talks about Grace Cahill dying and Amy and Dan who have to slolve a huge mystery and there are also some others competing.
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this book is one of my favs because it's a mystery and fantasy combined! This book you will never want to put down! if you have read the percy jackson books you have to read this! i totally recommend this book!!!!!!!!!!!