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The Sword Thief (The 39 Clues #3)
ATTENTION! Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair Oh. Could they have been foolish enough to make an alliance?
Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be wel...more
Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be wel...more
Hardcover, First Edition, 156 pages
Published
April 1st 2009
by Scholastic Inc
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A fun, fast adventure, but no where near as substantive or satisfying as the first 2 in the series. It felt like watching a Disney TV series, each chapter ending in a cliffhanger; thank goodness there were no commercials. I really miss the strong historical bent of the first 2 books. There was some info here about the Japanese historical figure, but not nearly as much as in the past books. There was some nice character development, humor, and, as I said, terrific adventure. If this had been the...more
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Apr 06, 2011
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This book was really exciting and interesting. It had a lot of action and suspense. It is about two children Amy and Dan Cahill. They are apart of this huge family that includes famous people from our past like Benjamin Franklin, Mozart and other famous people. They are racing to find the 39 clues before all of their other relatives. They make an alliance with their Uncle Alistar who had abandoned them in the beginning. He took them under his wing. They also all made an alliance with their enemy...more
What struck me about this book before I even started reading it was how short it was compared to the first two books in the series. Then, while I read this, I thought about how the writing in this book isn't nearly as good as the writing in the first two. I know, each book has a different author, but that doesn't mean that even though the writing might be different, it necessarily has to be worse. Unfortunately, I thought that was the case with this book. It didn't flow as nicely, there were min...more
I was extremely impressed by this series. I started listening to the Maze of Bones audiobook while at work. I enjoy listening to young adult series as they aren't too difficult to follow while also concentrating on my computer. After listening to the Percy Jackson series 2 or 3 times I figured I'd give this Riordan book a try. I was pleasantly surprised to find a compelling mystery! The Cahill kids are likable protagonists on a bigger adventure then they could ever have imagined having in their...more
The Sword Thief
By Peter Lerangis
156 Pages
Adventure
February 2013
Amy and Dan Cahill belong to a very unique family. When their grandmother, Grace, dies, she leaves them a choice. They must pick between a million dollars or the first clue in a series that lead to a well-guarded secret. Amy and Dan decide to join the hunt and take the first clue. Their family is very competitive, and Amy and Dan are nearly killed in a series of encounters. They find and follow leads all over the world, and realize...more
By Peter Lerangis
156 Pages
Adventure
February 2013
Amy and Dan Cahill belong to a very unique family. When their grandmother, Grace, dies, she leaves them a choice. They must pick between a million dollars or the first clue in a series that lead to a well-guarded secret. Amy and Dan decide to join the hunt and take the first clue. Their family is very competitive, and Amy and Dan are nearly killed in a series of encounters. They find and follow leads all over the world, and realize...more
ATTENTION! Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair Oh. Could they have been foolish enough to make an alliance?
Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded . . . and the price to uncover them just might be lethal.
From School Library JournalGrade 4–7—Amy and Dan Cah
I'm going to give a generic review of the series. Basically because I'm lazy and don't want to write 39 reviews. Okay, 11.
We finally read Book 1. And then because we liked it so well, the entire series. One son (age 12) has read them all, the second son (also age 12) is on Book 2. And son #3 (age 8) will be starting as soon as he finishes his current book.
I thought the premise of this book very interesting. I loved how they integrated history and geography along with problem-solving skills and c...more
We finally read Book 1. And then because we liked it so well, the entire series. One son (age 12) has read them all, the second son (also age 12) is on Book 2. And son #3 (age 8) will be starting as soon as he finishes his current book.
I thought the premise of this book very interesting. I loved how they integrated history and geography along with problem-solving skills and c...more
Uh... wow. That was a really quick read. Last I checked, I just started leafing through the pages and now I'm done.
Peter Lerangis, what have you done to the characters? You somehow tweaked them up a little bit. Since when did Amy begin to stammer so much when she talks?
Anyway, what Amy felt for Ian was quite incestuous IMO. They're cousins first of all, unless the bloodline is very distant. And I thought it was pretty clear that she and Dan despise the Kabras so much though it was mentioned ear...more
Peter Lerangis, what have you done to the characters? You somehow tweaked them up a little bit. Since when did Amy begin to stammer so much when she talks?
Anyway, what Amy felt for Ian was quite incestuous IMO. They're cousins first of all, unless the bloodline is very distant. And I thought it was pretty clear that she and Dan despise the Kabras so much though it was mentioned ear...more
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Lerangis, P. (2009). The 39 Clues: The sword thief. New York: Scholastic Inc.
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156 pages
Appetizer: Just when Dan and Amy think they're on their way to Japan in search of the third clue, several of their relatives team up to separate them from their au pair, Nellie, and prevent them from leaving Italy. The two must form an unhappy alliance with some of their other relatives to hunt for the next clue. As tentative alliances are formed and betrayals become known, the children continue on th...more
0545060435
156 pages
Appetizer: Just when Dan and Amy think they're on their way to Japan in search of the third clue, several of their relatives team up to separate them from their au pair, Nellie, and prevent them from leaving Italy. The two must form an unhappy alliance with some of their other relatives to hunt for the next clue. As tentative alliances are formed and betrayals become known, the children continue on th...more
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Amy and Dan Cahill are the protagonists and they are all on their own in the hunt for the 39 Clues started by their grandmother, Grace Cahill. They must depend on their own instincts to beat their wealthy cousins to the final product, the serum including all of the 39 Clues, which makes whoever drinks it the most powerful person in the world. The antagonists are the other Cahill members taking part in the hunt for the 39 Clues.
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The setting is all over the world as the clue hunt l...more
Amy and Dan Cahill are the protagonists and they are all on their own in the hunt for the 39 Clues started by their grandmother, Grace Cahill. They must depend on their own instincts to beat their wealthy cousins to the final product, the serum including all of the 39 Clues, which makes whoever drinks it the most powerful person in the world. The antagonists are the other Cahill members taking part in the hunt for the 39 Clues.
Entry 2-
The setting is all over the world as the clue hunt l...more
The 39 Clues series reveals that all of the great names in the world--whether athletes, artists, politicians, or warriors--were all part of the same family, the Cahills. When the matriarch of the Cahill family dies, members of the Cahill family are given a choice between inheriting a million dollars or searching for 39 clues that will lead them to ultimate power, glory, and wealth.
Each book in the series will be written by a different author, though the central characters remain Amy and Dan Cahi...more
Each book in the series will be written by a different author, though the central characters remain Amy and Dan Cahi...more
A Book Review of 39 Clues: Sword Thief
by Jerome, Grade 7, Yangon International school
Imagine being a part of the most powerful family full of unreliable relatives and famous
inventors. Two options exist: take one-million dollars and live normally or participate in a clue
hunt to discover the secret of the Cahill power and become the most powerful person in the
world. Amy and Dan have chosen to participate in a serious quest to discover the secrets of the
Cahill power. On this risky trip, will t...more
by Jerome, Grade 7, Yangon International school
Imagine being a part of the most powerful family full of unreliable relatives and famous
inventors. Two options exist: take one-million dollars and live normally or participate in a clue
hunt to discover the secret of the Cahill power and become the most powerful person in the
world. Amy and Dan have chosen to participate in a serious quest to discover the secrets of the
Cahill power. On this risky trip, will t...more
As the third book in the 39 Clues series, this book picked up where the last ones had left off both in terms of plot/story and in terms of expectations.
Another new author took over this time and did a great job of continuing the adventure in Japan and Korea. With the various details included, I wonder if part of the choice of author is based on his/her knowledge of the proposed setting for the book. In this book, we're given a fair amount of good details about the Japanese landscape, cityscape,...more
Another new author took over this time and did a great job of continuing the adventure in Japan and Korea. With the various details included, I wonder if part of the choice of author is based on his/her knowledge of the proposed setting for the book. In this book, we're given a fair amount of good details about the Japanese landscape, cityscape,...more
As usual too short :p At this point, I think it's going to take 39 books for them to find all the clues, because they are only finding one per book with exception of the first where they got one clue at the start and found another by the end. Unless all that extra-book content is going to come into play (more clues have been discovered by those playing along)...
Dan in this book was just so dumb. It didn't seem like him at all. At one point where he was talking about stuff he'd figured out in the...more
Dan in this book was just so dumb. It didn't seem like him at all. At one point where he was talking about stuff he'd figured out in the...more
When I was younger, I used to despise Koreans. I would get really embarrassed when all the other Korean kids started drawing Korean flags on their backpacks and notebooks and writing “KP” (“Korean Pride”) on everything they owned (I still think I was a tiny bit justified in that embarrassment. That’s pretty lame, yo).
But, as I grew older, I realized that, whether I liked it or not, being Korean was part of my heritage, and trying to cut that off was like cutting off my nose to spite my face. I l...more
But, as I grew older, I realized that, whether I liked it or not, being Korean was part of my heritage, and trying to cut that off was like cutting off my nose to spite my face. I l...more
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Apr 07, 2009
Katrina
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Middle school reluctant readers and pretty much everyone else.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. Peter Lerangis, the third author in the series, takes the characters in directions that perhaps even Rick Riordan did not envision. For example, Alistair Oh, who began life as a vaguely untrustworthy cipher in the first book and continued as a doddering comic non-entity in the second, flowers here as a doting relative, filled with concern and even love towards the other characters. He has inner dialog, an intriguing and tragic backstory, a home, and formidable sk...more
Another good clue hunt.
In this one, I was suprised that Amy & Dan teamed up with Uncle Alistair, and then added Ian & Natalie to the team to find the clues in their search in Japan.
When they go to the Library in Tokyo with Alistair, I was waiting for Alistair to pull one over on them again, more like he had in the First book. But he didn't.
He did hide who he was recieving e-mail from, and I was expecting it would have been their other cousin, he had teamed up with before, but it wasn't...more
In this one, I was suprised that Amy & Dan teamed up with Uncle Alistair, and then added Ian & Natalie to the team to find the clues in their search in Japan.
When they go to the Library in Tokyo with Alistair, I was waiting for Alistair to pull one over on them again, more like he had in the First book. But he didn't.
He did hide who he was recieving e-mail from, and I was expecting it would have been their other cousin, he had teamed up with before, but it wasn't...more
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This one was slightly less fun than its predecessors. The go to Japan and then Korea, and end up trapped underground yet again (this is emerging as a motif in these books). A character dies, but doesn't. Lots of threats and danger, but once more no-one gets hurt. Betrayal everywhere. Solutions make no sense, and even when they come, they lead to greater misunderstanding than what they clear up. On that score, it's about par for this series.
There's an anagram at the end of the book. It has many p...more
There's an anagram at the end of the book. It has many p...more
Well...I haven't read book #1 or book #2 and this is book #3 but I think that you can get the gist of the series by reading any of them. Apparently there are or will be 39 books, each containing a clue hidden around the world to a treasure that is the source of great power. This book was over the top with danger and is a bit improbable to say the least but it's great fun to read. So the gist of the story is that 14 year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother Dan are in a race against numerous ot...more
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. Peter Lerangis, the third author in the series, takes the characters in directions that perhaps even Rick Riordan did not envision. For example, Alistair Oh, who began life as a vaguely untrustworthy cipher in the first book and continued as a doddering comic non-entity in the second, flowers here as a doting relative, filled with concern and even love towards the other characters. He has inner dialog, an intriguing and tragic backstory, a home, and formidable sk...more
This book doesn't have as much going for it as the first two. First of all, it chooses a very obscure historical figure: Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Granted, I don't know much Asian history at the time of this review, so I can't cast as many stones. However, Dan and Amy make a valiant effort to discover the final prize, but, in all honesty, are very far away from the truth. Obviously, Scholastic likes Peter Lerangis, because he writes many more books in this series, along with Gordan Korman and authors...more
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This book just wasn't as good as the others. While the last book focused more on Natalie, this book is mostly about Alistair with some inner thought from Ian thrown in. While not as fast-paced as the others, there was still a lot going on in a short span of pages. Much of the content in this book is based in mental monologue, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Usually inner dialogue helps the reader become closer to the character, allowing us to better understand what's underneath the surface...more
Unlike The 39 Clues Book Two: One False Note where the action is non-stop, in The 39 Clues Book Three: The Sword Thief things slow down, and we get to know the characters better, especially the rivals, as they pursue their quest for the 39 clues. I liked this change. It reminded me of The 39 Clues Book One: The Maze of Bones, where all the characters were introduced and we got a good picture of them.
With this book the reader gets a chance to get his bearings and to recap all the events that now...more
With this book the reader gets a chance to get his bearings and to recap all the events that now...more
Where One False Note focused more on the relationship with Dan, Amy, and Nellie, this one centered on the larger family. It was refreshing to see the other Cahill family branches make an larger appearance in one of the books. Uncle Alistair's relationship with Dan and Amy is one of the major themes. There is also an interesting spin done on the Cahill-Kabra dynamic.
Although I had been wanting to see more of the family, this is my least favorite book in the series so far. There was far too much t...more
Although I had been wanting to see more of the family, this is my least favorite book in the series so far. There was far too much t...more
I chose to read this book because after the second book, I wanted to read what happens next after a cliffhanger. The Sword Thief is about Amy and Dan who goes to Japan to seek their next clue. They made an alliance with Alistair and later teamed up with the Kabras. The Kabras later betray them and leave them in a cave. My favorite quote was "Somehow Uncle Alistair was alive. And he had ditched them again." I like this quote because I actually thought Alistair died in the cave and I was so surpri...more
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Yet another delightful effort in the 39 Clues series. I love the fun and adventure this series has, but I was rather disappointed with this effort. The book is very short, about half the size of the other two, and felt somewhat disjointed. Maybe having each installment of the series written by a different author is finally catching with it.
Amy and Dan are back, as is the rest of the crazy family. This time Allastaire Oh seems to be on their side and definitely helps them out in the nick of time...more
Amy and Dan are back, as is the rest of the crazy family. This time Allastaire Oh seems to be on their side and definitely helps them out in the nick of time...more
This is the third in the kids adventure story series, The 39 Clues. Each book comes with cards and a chance to solve an online mystery and win actual prizes.
I like them for the fun story. Each book is written by a different author. The only one I had heard of before was Rick Riordan, who writes the Percy Jackson series, which I totally love.
This one starts off with our heroes Dan and Amy Cahill trying to reach Tokyo before any of the other competitors. And with a title like The Sword Thief, you...more
I like them for the fun story. Each book is written by a different author. The only one I had heard of before was Rick Riordan, who writes the Percy Jackson series, which I totally love.
This one starts off with our heroes Dan and Amy Cahill trying to reach Tokyo before any of the other competitors. And with a title like The Sword Thief, you...more
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Lerangis's work includes The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, two titles in the children's-book series The 39 Clues, the historical novel Smiler's Bones, the YA dark comedy-adventure novel wtf, the Drama Club series, the Spy X series, the Watchers series, the Abracadabra series, and the Antarctica two-book adventure, as well ghostwriting for series such as the Three Investigators, the Hardy Boys...more
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“I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin.
For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then:
"Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.”
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For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then:
"Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.”
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Ian's knees buckled. The rock outcropping shook the ground, sending a spew of grayish dust that quickly billowed around them.
Shielding his eyes, he spotted Amy standing by the figurine, which was now moving toward her. She was in shock, her backpack on the ground by her feet.
"Get back!" he shouted.
Ian pulled Amy away and threw her to the ground, landing on top of her. Gravel showered over his back, embedding into his hair and landing on the ground like a burst of applause.
His second though was that the shirt would be ruined. And this was the shock of it-that his first thought had not been about the shirt. Or the coin. Or himself.
It had been about her.
But that was not part of the plan. She existed for a purpose. She was a tactic, a stepping stone. She was...
"Lovely," he said.
Amy was staring up at him, petrified, her eyelashes flecked with dust. Ian took her hand, which was knotted into a fist. "Y-y-you don't have to do that," she whispered.
"Do what?" Ian asked.
"Be sarcastic. Say things like 'lovely.' You saved my life. Th-thank you."
"My duty," he replied. He lowered his head and allowed his lips to brush hers. Just a bit.”
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Ian's knees buckled. The rock outcropping shook the ground, sending a spew of grayish dust that quickly billowed around them.
Shielding his eyes, he spotted Amy standing by the figurine, which was now moving toward her. She was in shock, her backpack on the ground by her feet.
"Get back!" he shouted.
Ian pulled Amy away and threw her to the ground, landing on top of her. Gravel showered over his back, embedding into his hair and landing on the ground like a burst of applause.
His second though was that the shirt would be ruined. And this was the shock of it-that his first thought had not been about the shirt. Or the coin. Or himself.
It had been about her.
But that was not part of the plan. She existed for a purpose. She was a tactic, a stepping stone. She was...
"Lovely," he said.
Amy was staring up at him, petrified, her eyelashes flecked with dust. Ian took her hand, which was knotted into a fist. "Y-y-you don't have to do that," she whispered.
"Do what?" Ian asked.
"Be sarcastic. Say things like 'lovely.' You saved my life. Th-thank you."
"My duty," he replied. He lowered his head and allowed his lips to brush hers. Just a bit.”
