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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  valmartineau | Nov 14, 2009 |  I would recomend this book to pepole that like adventure and action. Also I would recomend this because it gets kind of boring in the first part of the book but gets extremely exiting in the middle and the ending. (  ) MrFClass | Nov 13, 2009 | This book is about two kids that lose their rich grandmother and they can choose if they would like 1 million dollars or they could choose to go on a quest to fint the 39 clues and become the most powerful person in their family and it showes there troubles throught the book! (  ) MrFClass | Nov 13, 2009 | Amy and Dan Cahill are orphans whose parents died in a fire; their guardian Aunt Beatrice, is pretty much hands-off, but their grandmother, Grace Cahill, made up for that. But now Grace is dead, and her will is rather strange to say the list. A select few of her relatives are given the choice: $1 million or joining in a race to discover something absolutely amazing - but they need to find the 39 clues to get there. When Amy and Dan agree to the challenge, they had no idea what they were getting in to and how much their lives were in danger. My eleven-year-old sister has been begging me to read these books for ages. I finally agreed to listen to the audiobook, which we both did together in over two days. It's fast-paced, full of history, mystery and adventure, and has some humorous moments, too. David Pittu does a fair job of reading, though his accents are terrible (and there are a lot - a British pair of siblings, a Korean man, a Russian woman, and an au pair that is trilingual in French, Spanish, and English yet speaks with an appalling Spanish accent). I can see why this series interests kids, though I personally found it extremely over-the-top, particularly when the kids convince their au pair to take them out of the country and not tell their guardian. I can just see the kidnapping charges...but then, I'm not the target audience. The series also has a tie-in cards collection and online component where kids can compete to win prizes. (  ) bell7 | Nov 6, 2009 | another one of my favorite books in the world! ( ) lylekatie | Nov 5, 2009 | 
 Bookish Amy and hyperactive Dan are agreeably flawed characters but have an undeniably focus-grouped, manufactured quality — as does, let’s face it, the whole book...When the book tells us that Dan loved his grandmother because “she’d treated him and Amy like real people, not kids,” we hear what’s wrong. The writing is carefully bland, as if it didn’t trust its readers enough.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0545060397, Hardcover)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. The 39 Clues is Scholastic's groundbreaking new series, spanning10 adrenaline-charged books, 350 trading cards, and an online game where readers play a part in the story and compete for over $100,000 in prizes. The 39 Clues books set the story, and the cards, website and game allow kids to participate in it. Kids visit the website - the39clues.com - and discover they are lost members of the Cahill family. They set up online accounts where they can compete against other kids and against Cahill characters to find all 39 clues. Through the website, kids can track their points and clues, manage their card collections, dig through the Cahill archives for secrets, and "travel" the world to collect Cahill artifacts, interview characters, and hunt down clues. Collecting cards helps: Each card is a piece of evidence containing information on a Cahill, a clue, or a family secret. Every kid is a winner - we'll give away prizes through the books, the website and the cards, including a grand prize of $10,000! (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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