by Jude Watson
A fun way to teach history, and really get kids and young adults into learning. Even as an older teen, and adult, I still learned from these books, and enjoyed the ride along the way.
In this installment of the 39 Clues series by Jude Watson, we find our main characters, Amy and Dan Cahill, in Egypt. They are racing against their relatives to find the clue hidden by Katherine Cahill, the founding member of the Ekaterina branch of the Cahill family. Amy and Dan not only face the d...
Thankfully, this 4th installation in the 39 Clues series was an improvement over the 3rd book which I wasn't crazy about. This book is more like the first two: history, globetrotting, adventure. I enjoyed the focus on Grace and what she had done for Amy & Dan. I also liked the addition of Theo and...
I might have liked this one best so far in the series! Great fun.
So Amy and Dan head off to Egypt, where they find that people who they thought were dead AREN'T, romances are not to be trusted, people who they thought were dead, uh, still are, and Crocodiles are fast.There are brief pauses to tip our hats to feminism again, which also happened in One Missing Note...
These books are pleasing to a similar part of my brain as Nancy Drew. There's a giant puzzle to the series, there are all these separate little puzzles, there's travel and intrigue. But the characters, while having some good skills, are not perfect at everything, and stuff goes wrong.On the downsi...
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