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Just so you know... Some of the book entries will be only one blog entry long... I'm trying to catch my blog up here... Too behind...
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Anyway, back to the main subject here. As you may know, The 39 Clues is a popular chapter book series which is currently (or so I heard) the number one popular series in the New York Times. I heard that about three weeks ago, so I don't know if this fact is still in effect right now. Well, it's about Amy and Dan Cahill, who are, well, Cahills. But the Cahills aren't just like any other person. All of the geniuses in history, even tyrants or anyone powerful - they belonged to the Cahill family. You name it, we find it. Ben Franklin, of course. Mozart - no doubt. From Thomas Edison to the famous Queen Catherine, they were all Cahills. Something special in their blood. And of course, each Cahill had four groups - the Janus (geniousness in the arts), the Lucians (geniusness in spyware and smartness and stuff), Ekaterinas (geniusness in inventions and so forth), and finally, the Tomases (geniusness in sports and etc.).
Dan (12 yr??) and Amy's (14 yr) branch is yet hidden, and they don't even know what branch they are in, nor do they know what they will face in a mission they are about to take.
And the mission is that they will be going all around the world gaining clues - 39 of them (duh, it even says in the title) - and they will face many dangers. Of course, what is at the end of the chain of clues is the mystery, but legend (and truth) claims that it is something that once you get a hold of it, it is like the whole world in your hands.
Well, enough of explaining... This is the fourth book when Amy and Dan go to the fourth clue in Cairo, Egypt. Well maybe not in Cairo, but in Egypt. And the main offender there is Jonah, the famous pop star from, as you can guess, the Januses in the Cahill family. As time passes with Amy and Dan on the mission, they find that they are related to fantastic people...
In the book series, Jonah acts as the punk, or more like the clueless, spoiled nerd in the whole group of Cahills who seem to actually know what they're doing, unlike Jonah. And he's terribly stunned that nobody in Egypt knows who da Jonah is, which proves that he isn't an international pop star.
The thirty nine clues is an occupying, mysterious book series, and sad to say, (not really, it's a good book, but all of them are, that's why) this isn't any different than the other books in the series. I noticed that all of the books have the same format, just different "side" characters and settings, with a different surprise in each. They all have (of course) Amy and Dan, then a famous place, then another one of the Cahills who come to disturb their presence and run away, thinking that they got the clue, which it actually isn't... Maybe a previous ally (Alistar Oh, to be specific), and of course, the clue. And Amy and Dan get lost, which someone comes to find them, and they get back to their au pair, Nellie.
Overall, it was an exciting book. And the bad thing is, the library only had the fifth book when I needed to read this fourth book, so I ended up reading the fifth book instead of this fourth book. That slightly got me confused when reading this book. So now I have to read the sixth book. And I am REALLY dying to know what branch Amy and Dan are in... Aren't you????????? =D
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