39 clues: The Viper’s nest

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Title: 39 clues: The Viper’s nest

Author: Peter Lerangis

Main Characters: Amy, Dan, Nellie, Alistair Oh, Ian Kabra, Natalie Kabra, Isabel Kabra, Hamilton, Eisenhower, McIntyre and Jonah Wizard.

Description Of One Of The Main Characters: McIntyre is a lawyer and is also a Madrigal. He is a kind man. He sometimes helps Amy and Dan Cahill in their leads to the clues. He was Grace’s lawyer.

Whom I Like And Why: I like Nellie, Amy and Dan's ‘Au pair’ very much. She loves music and dance. She is twenty years old. She helps Amy and Dan travel everywhere to hunt for the clues. She also helps them out when they get into trouble.

Whom I Dislike and Why: I dislike Jonah. He is a hip-hop star singer. He thinks low of Amy and Dan. He is a liar. He always wants fame. He is a coward. He is always outsmarted by his Cahill cousins.

Setting/Theme Of The Story: Amy and Dan Cahill go in search of clues and to seek the knowledge of their partent’s branch in the Cahill family. They are always targeted by their Cahill cousins who know their own Cahill branches. They arrive at Grace’s house which is shown by one of Grace Cahill’s friends.

There they come to know that they, Amy and Dan Cahill, and their parents, Arthur Trent and Hope Cahill, and their beloved grandmother, Grace Cahill, were the deadly Madrigals whom everyone feared. Amy and Dan understand why Grace never told them their branch. She didn't tell them because all four other branches of the Cahills  – Tomas, Lucian, Ekatrina and Janus – hate and are afraid of the Madrigals.

A King’s Ransom: Cahills VS Vespers

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Title: A King’s Ransom

Author: Jude Watson.

Main Characters: Amy, Dan, Nellie, Ian, McIntyre, Natalie, Aliaster Oh, Hamilton, Jonah, The Holts, Vesper One, Casper, Cheyenne, Evan, Atticus, Jake, Erasmus.

Description of one of the main characters:

McIntyre is lawyer. He was the layer and friend of Grace Cahill. He is kind and helps Amy and Dan in saving the Cahill members from the Vespers. In the last, he dies as someone strikes him with a poisonous needle.

Whom I like and why: I like Evan as he helps Amy and Dan when Casper and Cheyenne lack Amy and Dan in a room and reduce the oxygen level slowly to 4%. Evan saves them by unlocking the room at the right time.

Whom I dislike and why: I dislike Casper and Cheyenne as they always try to kill Amy and Dan. They are selfinsh and cunning. They are Vespers. They want to get a good name from Vesper one.

Setting/theme of the story: Amy and Dan try to steal a map for the Vespers, who threaten to kill the seven members of the Cahill family taken as hostages. No one has seen the map for half a century! They find the map with the help of Atticus and Jake. But Casper and Cheyenne kidnap Atticus. Now Amy and Dan have to follow the Nazis and go to mad King’s castle.

Part I enjoyed the most: I enjoyed the part when Amy and Dan escape from the auction room, where the map was first found before 50 years.

39 clues: Strom Warning

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Title: 39 clues: Strom Warning

Author: Linda Sue Park

Main Characters: Amy Cahill, Dan Cahill, Nellie Gomez, Alistair Oh, Ian Kabra, Natalie Kabra, Isabel Kabra, Cora Wizard, Jonah Wizard, McIntyre, Fiske, Hamilton Holt, Eisenhower Holt, Mary-Todd Holt, Reagan Holt, Madison Holt and Bae Oh.

Description Of One Of The Main Characters: Bae Oh is the head of Ekatrina brach (shortly called Ekat). He is a cruel man. He is the uncle of Alistair Oh. He killed Alistair Oh’s father as he wanted himself to become the head of Ekat branch and not Alistair Oh’s father. He is a very old man and is very cunning.

Whom I Like And Why: I like Amy Cahill very much. She is a fourteen year old girl. She is very intelligent and smart. She loves to read books. She loves libraries and museums very much. She has a younger brother named Daniel.

Whom I Dislike And Why:I dislike Eisenhower Holt. He is a Tomas. He is big and bulky. He is very strong. He is stupid and doesn’t know to think properly at all.

Setting/Theme Of The Story:Amy and Dan follow their ancestor Anne Bonny who was pirate. They travel to Bahamas and Jamaica is search of clues. They ask a guy named Lester to hire them a box which has the symbols of the Cahill branches. But the guy, Lester, dies because of Isabel Kabra as she pushes him into a quicksand. But Nellie starts behaving suspiciously. Nellie drives them to a man in black – the man Amy and Dan Cahill fear most. He explains to them that Madrigals aren’t bad but only that they try to unite all four branches who are constantly fighting for leads to the main clue. They come to know that Nellie had been prepared to help Amy and Dan. Nellie is also given an ‘ACTIVE MADRIGAL CARD’ even if she isn’t a Cahill.

Part I Enjoyed The Most: I enjoyed the part when Fiske, the man in black tells Amy, Dan and Nellie the truth about the Madrigals.

39 clues: The Emperor’s code

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Title: 39 clues: The Emperor’s code

Author : Gordan Norman

Main Characters: Amy, Dan, Nellie, Alistair Oh, Ian Natalie, Isabael, Cora Wizard, Jonah Wizard, Eisenhower, Hamilton and McIntyre.

Description of one of the main characters: Isabel Kabra is the head of the Lucian branch. She is Ian and Natalie’s mother. She is really cold and unkind to everyone. She killed Irina, Hope Cachill and Arthur Trent. She doesn’t believe her own children. She threatens to kill them if they don’t obey her. She is like a venomous snake.

Whom I Like and Why: I like Ian in this part. Even when Isabel asks Ian to hurt Dan or Amy, he doesn't kill anybody for the 39 clues. He is smart and brave. He is Natalie’s brother.

Whom I dislike and Why: I dislike Cora wizard. She is very much like Isabel except that she does not try to kill someone personally but will ask her son, Jonah Wizard to do it.

Setting/Theme of the story: Amy and Dan Cahill go to China as they find Hope and Arthur had gone there too. There they find a piece of cloth saying:

Lucian + Janus + Ekatrina + Tomas = Cahill 

They get a fight and Dan runs away alone. He joins forces with Jonah and searches for clues. Meanwhile Amy and Nellie opt to continue the clue hunt as they are sure they will meet Dan as he would also continue the clue hunt. They meet Dan at the foot of Mount Everest. Dan apologizes and, Amy and Dan go up in a helicopter where they find their cousins who are there to search clues but Amy and Dan find the clue which is the Tomas serum before their cousins. When they are about to come down, Ian Kabra slips from the ice and is about to die. Amy is the nearest to help him and she has to decide whether she has to hold the clue and let Ian die or drop the clue and save Ian. She choose the latter and saves Ian. Amy and Dan decide to go to Bahamas in search of the next clue.

Part I enjoyed the most: I enjoyed the part when they find the Tomas clue on the Mount Everest peak.

39 clues – In Too Deep

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Title: 39 clues – In Too Deep

Author: Jude Watson

Main characters: Amy, Dan, Nellie, Shep, Ian, Natalie, Isabel, Irina and Alistair.

Description of one of the main characters:

Irina Spasky is a Russian. She is one of Amy and Dan’s cousin. She usually tries to kill them like all other cousins of Dan and Amy. But when the house where uncle Alistair, Dan and Amy were staying catches fire, she saves them all and looses her life warning Amy about Isabel Kabra, Ian and Natalie’s mother.

Whom I like and why: I like Nellie because she is truthful and trustworthy. She has taken care of Dan and Amy ever since they ran away from Aunt Beatrice’s house. Nellie helps Amy and Dan when they are in trouble. Nellie is their “au pair”. She buys them cell phones and all other things they need.

Whom I dislike and why: I dislike Isabel Kabra. She is cold-hearted. She was the one who killed Amy and Dan’s parents, Arthur and Hope, by setting fire to the house they live in. she now tries to kill Amy, Dan and their “au pair” Nellie. She sets fire to the house where Amy, Dan and uncle Alistair are but Irina saves them and dies in the fire instead. Isabel is happy at Irina’s death even though Irina was a Lucian, the same as she is.

Setting/ theme of the story: Amy and Dan Cahill along with Nellie try to find out what their parents knew about the 39 clues. They get a lead on a man called Bob Troppo and while trying to find more about him, they get struck with their uncle Alistair in an island. Uncle Alistair takes them to a house. Isabel Kabra, the person who killed Arthur and Hope, tries to  kill Alistair, Amy and Dan by setting fire to the building but Irina saves them and she dies instead. Amy and Dan understand that even though Irina had acted as if their enemy she had been a hidden ally. They decide to revenge the people who killed and people who supported Isabel and helped her carry out the plan. They make up their mind to win the hunt for the 39 clues for their parents, Arthur and Hope.

Part I enjoyed the most: I enjoyed the part when Amy and Dan go surfing in Australia with their father’s brother ship.