We've updated our website First Clues: Mysteries for Kids by adding one of the most anticipated series to be published in years.
Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice: one million dollars or a clue."
Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young Amy and Dan must decide what's important: hunting clues or uncovering what really happened to their parents.
The 39 Clues is Scholastic's groundbreaking new series, spanning 10 adrenaline-charged books, 350 trading cards, and an online game where readers play a part in the story and compete for over $100,000 in prizes.
The 39 Clues books set the story, and the cards, website and game allow kids to participate in it. Kids visit the website, 39clues.com, and discover they are lost members of the Cahill family. They set up online accounts where they can compete against other kids and against Cahill characters to find all 39 clues. Through the website, kids can track their points and clues, manage their card collections, dig through the Cahill archives for secrets, and "travel" the world to collect Cahill artifacts, interview characters, and hunt down clues. Collecting cards helps: each card is a piece of evidence containing information on a Cahill, a clue, or a family secret.
Every kid is a winner! Scholastic will give away prizes through the books, the website and the cards, including a grand prize of $10,000!
Scholastic is simultaneously launching the series in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand with a 1 million copy first printing, half in the U.S. The first book in the series, Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan, is being released this Tuesday together with the first 39 Clues Card Pack that covers books 1 through 3 of the series. In addition to penning the first book, Rick Riordan was entrusted with mapping out the storyline for the series. Subsequent books will be written by different authors and are scheduled to be published every three months or so over the next two years. The books in the series are recommended for readers aged 9 to 12.
Earlier this summer, Mystery Books News reported that Dreamworks had acquired the movie rights to the 39 Clues with Steven Spielberg directing.
First Clue Mysteries is pleased to provide information on nearly 100 mystery series for children and young adults. Each series is conveniently listed under three different age categories (New Sleuth, ages 4 to 7; Future Sleuth, aged 7 to 10; and Sleuth in Training, ages 10 and older). If you have a favorite mystery series you'd like to see added to our site, please contact us.
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I loved this book. I couldn't put it down. Constant action.
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