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The Maze of Bones Hardcover – September 9, 2008
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- Print length220 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 7
- Lexile measure610L
- Dimensions5.18 x 0.72 x 7.55 inches
- PublisherScholastic Press
- Publication dateSeptember 9, 2008
- ISBN-100545060397
- ISBN-13978-0545060394
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- Publisher : Scholastic Press; 1st edition (September 9, 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 220 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0545060397
- ISBN-13 : 978-0545060394
- Reading age : 8 - 11 years, from customers
- Lexile measure : 610L
- Grade level : 4 - 7
- Item Weight : 11.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.18 x 0.72 x 7.55 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #47,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author

Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults.
For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint Mary's Hall honored him with the school's first Master Teacher Award.
While teaching full time, Riordan began writing mystery novels for grownups. His Tres Navarre series went on to win the top three national awards in the mystery genre - the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus. Riordan turned to children's fiction when he started The Lightning Thief as a bedtime story for his oldest son.
Today over 35 million copies of his Percy Jackson, Kane Chronicles, and Heroes of Olympus books are in print in the United States, and rights have been sold into more than 35 countries. Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, another #1 New York Times bestseller.
Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons.
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At the reading of the will, 44 relatives were each given the choice of taking one million dollars or the ability to search for 39 clues that would lead one of them to the family secret and unimaginable power.
It is now a high stakes race to find and decipher the clues with lots of backstabbing, sabotaging, and dirty tricks.
The good guys are very likable and the puzzles and clues to clues are fun.
I read there are supposed to be ten books in all. But by the end of this book they are on their way to finding only the second clue. At this rate I don't see how they will get all 39 in only 10 books. I hope later books won't feel rushed.
All in all, this is fiction, it is getting kids to read which at their age is our primary objective. If it doesn't seem like work, they'll enjoy, the more they enjoy it, the more they read.
The book has a lot in common with those other series. We have youthful protagonists, one male, one female, who have a lot of responsibility thrust on them suddenly. They find out that the world is not at all like the one they thought they knew. It is run by a large and powerful extended family, the Cahills, to which they belong and which has several branches. They are in competition to solve a mystery which promises great power with other members (all suitably nasty, devious, and sly) who will stop at little to prevail. The series title, "The 39 Clues", is all you need to know to conclude we're in for a long ride. The clues are scattered all over the world. The first book takes us from Boston to Philadelphia to Paris as our protagonists sort out clues left by family member Benjamin Franklin.
The book is not told in first person as in some of Riordan's other series. The viewpoint does shift chapter by chapter from 14 year old Amy to her 11 year old brother Dan with short chapters interspersed showing other developments. Riordan's familiarity with the adolescent mind leads to much of the book's humor.
The book is somewhat shorter than Riordan's other series books and although he is in overall control of the plot other authors will write the other books. The present book really can't be enjoyed by itself as no real conclusion is reached. That said, I'm impressed enough to push on to Book 2.
I read this on my Kindle and the book seems perfectly formatted for that device. There are numerous graphics throughout the story but they are reproduced perfectly. There are a lot of online games and trading cards and such associated with this series but there is no hint that a reader needs to involve himself in them if he is just looking for a good story.
All in all, highly recommended.
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The story line appears to be keeping him intrigued as well.
This is the start of a really great kids book series, this first book was written by Rick Riordan, who also wrote the Percy Jackson serie, it's about this family called the Cahills, who are given the oppurtunity at the funeral of one of their relatives, to either accept a cheque for £1 million, or can except 1 clue, for the start of a treasure hunt, which would make them the most powerful person on the planet, and it is mainly centered around Grace Cahill's niece and nephew Amy + Dan, it is well worth a read, and I would highly recommend it!!!!
