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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book was really good! I've always thought that this book was a computer game or something, but then I realized it was actually a book! And a good one at that! Amy and Dan Cahill just learnt that the Cahill family is the most wide spread family in the world, and helped to shape civilization itself! Benjamin Franklin, Mozart, Issac Newton, and more are all part of the family! Now Amy and Dan has to figure out all 39 clues to get to a treasure, that'll make them famous, rich and powerful! But they're up against a lot of competition! Can they do it? (  ) 8F_SAM | Dec 30, 2009 |  Coruca | Dec 19, 2009 | The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan is the first in a new trans-media series that connects books, clues, and website experiences together. Amy and Dan Cahill are at the center of a mystery adventure reminiscent of the DaVinci Code book and National Treasure movies. The two children are competing with powerful and influential family members to find clues leading to what's been described as the greatest treasure of all time. Woven through the books are historical references, mathematical problems, and intriguing puzzles that will eventually lead to a solution. The quirky characters and fast pace make this book a quick, interesting read. The accompanying website is an element sure to draw in reluctant readers. The focus on history and puzzles reminds me of the books of Blue Balliett. One book down, just thirty-eight to go. This series will keep people of all ages reading for years to come. (  ) eduscapes | Dec 6, 2009 | Great series! I find it is excellent for my boys who are reluctant readers. You know the type! Because it is fast-paced and filled with action, it is being requested like crazy at our school! ( ) tinkdust21 | Nov 30, 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 | 
 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 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:24:44 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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