Reader's Journal #8

Dear Gabby,

This week I read a mystery and the name of the book I read is called The 39 clues! Gabby I can just tell you that the 1st book in amazing and I just wanna keep reading the rest of the series! I know you're reading The 39 Clues too, so I can read your blog and get a great explanation on the 4th book!!!:)

The author is Rick Riordan and he really knows how to catch the reader's attention and actually make the book a fun and adventurous mystery!

Let me tell you a about the events in the book!!!!

The characters in the book are Amy, Dan, Grace, Nellie, Ian, Natalie, Uncle Alistair, the Holt family, Irina, the Starlings, William Mclntrye, Jonah Wizrad, and Aunt Beatrice.

Ok, those are a lot of characters so let me give a quick description about them. Amy and Dan are sibilings and they are on a mission to find the 39 clues to be the most powerful member in their family civilization. Grace is their grandmother who sadly passed away and she's the one who set the challenge which I will get to in the plot. Nellie is Dan and Amy's cousin and Beatrice is their aunt. Basically Ian, Natalie, Uncle Alistair, the Holt family, Irina, the Starlings, and Jonah Wizard are the enemies. They are trying to eliminate Dan and Amy because they are ahead in their challenge and they find clues very fast. Each of those people are evil and sneaky in their own way!

The setting takes place in Boston, which is Dan and Amy's hometown. It also takes place in Paris where the challengers start to find and search for clues!

The conflict of the story is that Dan and Amy are quick and focused about finding the challenge that was given and they are currently ahead of everyone. Now, the rest of the competators want to steal their information because they think that they have more hints because they're Grace's grandchildren and also because they keep on finding the clues and getting the idea of the mission.

The plot of the Book is about two sibilings named Amy and Dan. They have no parents because they died when they were young. They never knew how though and basically they don't know them at all! Grace, their grandmother was the only person who cared about them and loved them dearly. Dan and Amy are living with their Aunt Beatrice but she treats them terribly. They don't live with Grace because she's very sick and that's how she died. Her funeral was at church with a lot of people. Everybody there was a Cahill. (Dan and Amy's last name.) Even people they never met in their life, was a Cahill. That was a name that was passed on for centuries. At church William Mclntrye(Grace's lawyer) showed everybody a video Grace made before she passed away. It was about that challenge she had made up. The challenge was take to wither take 2 million dollars or a clue that will lead you to more clues to find a treasure and be the most Powerful Cahill in human civiilzation. Almost everybody took the money, but only Amy and Dan, Natalie and Ian, Uncle Alistair, Holt family, and the Starlings took the challenge. Irina was Natalie and Ian's aunt but it she didn't take the challenge, she just helped Ian and Natalie. Basically, what happens is all the competators head and discover the first clue that was given to them and their clue was about Benjamin Franklin and how he was part of the Cahill family. Like I said, the other challengers keep on stealing Dan and Amy's clues and messing with them!! So far, Dan and Amy are on their second clue but don't forget there's 39 clues in total!! I have to read the 2nd book to figure about the rest of the clues Dan and Amy found and what will happen later on!

I can't tell you what the resolution is because so far there isn't one because there's much more series and I need to read them all to know what will happen in the end!!!!

My favorite part of the book is that Dan and Amy are not giving up until they find all the 39 clues even though they are being spied on and manipulated. I would also keep on going because once I start something, I'm not going to back out until I finish my task!:)

My least favorite part is that the rest of the participates are stealing the clues Amy and Dan discovered and that they are messing with their chances of winning!! The point of this challenge is to figure the clues with your partner and have a little fun!!!!!! People can just be so evil and disgusting, especially when they are your relatives!

Gabby I hoped you liked my blog and I will definitely comment on yours!!!!!!!!! Love you Gabby and looking forward to reading your blog tomorrow!:)

Love,

Adi<3