The 39 Clues Book 1:The Maze of Bones
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A remarkable book! It almost starts out like a TV show series. I read through the series up to 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 6: Day of Doom. Now I'm starting over because they are that good.
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dang this book was good. it felt good when micheal made it to the hallowed ravine. also i highly suggest you guys to read the maze runner series by james dashner
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The 5th book in the Flavia de Luce series has Flavia becoming involved with the 500th anniversary of St. Tancred, with the commemoration opening his tomb under the church. She manages to weasel her way into the opening of the tomb, where to everyone's surprise, they find the body of the church's missing organist in a gas mask. Flavia cannot resist a good murder mystery and begins her own investigation. This leads her to a ghost legend, a secret tunnel, and a missing jewel. While Flavia is busily working on the case, her home situation is changing drastically, with an engagement, and the potential sale of her family home. She also finds out more about her mother from some unexpected sources. Flavia befriends a flora-archeologist who helps to investigate the case, and Flavia uses chemistry to solve a few puzzles along the way. The book ends in a dramatic fashion, leaving the reader anxious for the next installment.
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We truly enjoyed this book, both my daughter and I. We read the audio book of Maze runner. I love the characters in this book they are extremely well written. I will be finishing this series. I love the twists and turns and creature creation in this book. The world building is extraordinary. I'd seen the movie before I read the book and I know the book is always better than the movie, but it was so much different in many good ways. I liked the puzzle in the maze very much and in particular Chuck, he was so awesome I loved his vulnerability and innocence. I also liked Newt very much and I like the way the narrarator played many of the characters. However the audiobook narrarator had a sort of haiku pentameter that took away from the excellence of the material. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
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What secrets  of the ancients, their technology, their way of life are to be unleashed by finding the proper home for the Crystal Skulls? Are the skulls the key to so many wonders that would so improve the world; and if they are, who wouldn't want to control them; to have them in their proper place sharing those wonders? Just how would that be done, and by whom? And for what reasons?

Jake continues to try to protect Dennis, Susan, Gary, and baby Janet. He has help from the CIA, ah, but could someone there be working for the enemy, for the Tri-Lateral Consortium?  Could there be a mole in place in the CIA? Who can, who cannot, be trusted? Jake can only be sure of loyalty from one source to protect these people, and she has four legs!

What would such a group as the TLC, devoted only to their own power and profits do with such knowledge? Doesn't seem their concern would be for the good of all as we are all too aware these days.

How can Susan, Gary, and Dennis work to extract such vast knowledge when under constant threat of death or capture by this conglomerate, or perhaps a renegade CIA agent? How can Jake protect them and their child against all odds when he doesn't know who might be working against his best efforts?

The Crystal Grotto continues this fast paced adventure as the team tries to bring to the world the secrets of the Atlantean civilization. Think solar, think homes made of materials from nature, durable, comfortable seasonally without the energy sources that have caused us so much expense, loss, and destruction of our environment. They are on a race against time, against power and money, against greed, against those they should be able to trust.

If they can unleash Atlantean knowledge will it always be positive, beneficial, peaceful; or here too, as in all life, choices are made, accidents happen, and sometimes you get more than you sought, and, indeed, more than anyone wants.

Enter the Crystal Grotto, if you dare!
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What an adventure!  This is a great story about 12 year old friends following clues that Nate's Gramps leaves them.  It will keep your reader engaged and wanting to follow the clues to solve the mystery.  I can't wait to use this as a read aloud for my 3rd graders!
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The 2nd year of Harry Potter at Hogwarts sees more adventures. The second of the Harry Potter scintillates readers with musch twist-and-turns and surprises. It is more or less a detective plot in the wizardry world. Piece by piece, Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger probed identity of the Heir of Slytherin through traces of evidence. Who launched the spree of Muggle-born attacks? Who turned the Hogwarts students into stone? What kind of monster stands behind the Chambers of Secrets? Who kept the Very Secret Diary and how did it end up in Hogwarts? The three friends unveiled, little bit little, the mystery of the Chamber and trapped into unprecedent danger. The element of suspense makes story interesting to follow. Dobby, the impish Malfoy family house-elf, warned Harry not to go back to Hogwarts at the beginning makes it very difficult for me to put the book down! I rate this second of the series 4.5 stars. Another good read.
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"One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things." -- Revelation 9:12 (NKJV)

If you are like me, you probably read each novel in the 39 Clues series at high speed. I wanted to find the next clue, to see who would be a double-dealer next, and to learn who had done what to whom in the past. As a result, a lot of the details didn't exactly stick like glue in my head. If so and you cherish the stories, you'll appreciate having a chance to see a lot of the information you've read presented in a more organized, concise form in The Black Book of Buried Secrets. You'll also see lots of veiled references to the Vespers.

Surprise, surprise! There's a new 39 Clues series coming beginning with Vespers Rising by Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson on April 5, 2011. Naturally, you'll need to refer back to the Black Book of Buried Secrets to make the most sense out of that new series.

So if you liked the first ten books, this eleventh one is an essential reference for the next series of ten.

The book has a tongue-in-cheek opening where Rick Riordan provides a fictional story for the book's origin in his role as a Janus operative. From there, you read profiles of the Madrigal, Lucian, Ekaterina, Tomas, and Janus branches of the Cahill family starting with a brief summary and then looking at the founders, continuing with the agents, and ending with descriptions of their home bases. Some of the fictional stories about founders and agents are quite humorous.

The book is illustrated with photographs and images of some of the characters. These were unpleasant surprises in some cases because the people didn't look to me the way the stories had portrayed them. See what you think of the photograph of Grace Cahill, for instance. I'm not sure I would have wanted her to be my grandmother.

A few of the descriptions of historical figures looked to me as if they came out of Classics Illustrated comic books rather than history books. So don't plan to write any school papers for history class based on these thumbnail sketches.

But it's all in good fun. Have a ball!
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I can't wait to see the movie "The Maze Runner".  I'm hoping that they incorporate "The Kill Order" also!  Good books!
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I like The Secret of Robber's Cave because the author uses a lot of descriptive language to help explain what a particular character was thinking or feeling.  I also liked it because it felt like I was really there with them on the adventure.

The story is about two kids, Jeff and David, their cousin Claire, and their dogs going on an adventure to find clues for the lost treasure on a lost island.  I recommend this book for readers ten and up because it has a little bit of violence.  I love mystery so thats why I love The Secret of Robbers Cave.
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The Maze Runner by James Dashner was a great book for young adults. It was also very interesting and definitely kept me reading. Everything starts going wrong when a young man named Thomas is sent up in a 'box' and the day after a young woman named Teresa came up. It was very odd for a person to come up right after another, not to mention it was a girl. Once she comes up the supplies stop coming and they can't live there anymore so they have to get out of the maze they were sent to. I recommend this book-Review by Mackinley Cole
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Ruby Redfort look into my eyes is a great mystery! I couldn't wait to see what was on the next page! I didn't know what was going to happen! It was so suspenseful! This book is great for mystery and clue lovers! This book is great!
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I loved the book! It's an awesome mystery/adventure book! I loved the whole book! I would recommend the book even if u don't like mystery books!
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James Dashner is a genius! The maze runner is a thrilling novel with excitement on every page. I couldn't put it down. I absolutely love the story, and would definitely recommend it to anyone who needs a fantastic book to read. I know I can't wait to read the next one.
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I really liked the book. My favorite part was when the house was moving. I liked the book because it kind of had a mystery at the end. I would recommend this book to other 7 year olds and older. Maybe littler kids but there was a kind of creepy part with Max. I can not wait for the next book.
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One False Note take us on the second leg of Dan and Amy's quest to discover all 39 clues. This time they are headed to Austria to figure out what Mozart has to do with their heritage and the mystery that has take over their lives.

Dan, Amy, and Nellie, their trusted and so cool au pair are hot on, the trail of the next clue, with Saladin in tow. On top of figuring out the clues, they are puzzled by whatever it is that is making Saladin, their late grandmother's cat, scratch himself silly and refuse to eat.

In this adventure Dan and Amy uncover yet another secret fortress used by their diabolical, and very artisitc, relatives to thwart the Cahill's discovery of useful information.

We learn about Mozart and his sister and several links between the great musician and other famous people. And who knew that Mozart's sister was a musician herself?

One False Note is a good read, not as good as the first book, but still full of action. One thing I didn't so much like was the constant bickering between Dan and Amy. Even for brother and sister it almost overshadowed the story. And the historical information is a lot more blatant in this one and not made as interesting.
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A great beginning to the series in which the following books should reveal more as the journey continues and the mysteries of the ancient giants from Earth's earlier epoch preceding the dinosaurs begins to awaken from a several aeons (1 aeon = 65 million years roughly) deep hibernative sleep.  The biggest question comes down to the unanswered questions of whether the giants will be if aid  or danger and what's will happen to humanity when time runs out.