Nowhere to Run (The 39 Clues: Unstoppable Series #1)

by Jude Watson

Overview

The 39 Clues is unstoppable! The bestselling series returns with an adventure spanning four explosive books and a website that places readers right in the action.

The Cahill family has a secret. For five hundred years, they have guarded the 39 Clues -- thirty-nine ingredients in a serum that transforms whomever takes it into the most powerful person on earth. If the serum got into the wrong hands, the disaster would rock the world. So certain Cahills have always made it their mission to keep the serum safe, buried, locked away. Until now. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, are the latest guardians of the Clues. They think they've done everything right, but a tiny mistake leads to catastrophe. The serum is missing and Dan and Amy have to get it back and stop who stole it . . . before it's game over. For everyone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545576307
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Series:	39 Clues: Unstoppable Series , #1
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	388,393
Lexile:	610L (what's this?)
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jude Watson is the author of six 39 Clues books, Beyond the Grave, In Too Deep, Vespers Rising, A King's Ransom, Nowhere to Run, and Mission Titanic, along with the bestselling Star Wars: Last of the Jedi and Jedi Quest series. As Judy Blundell, she wrote What I Saw and How I Lied, the 2008 winner of The National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She lives in Long Island, New York, with her husband and daughter.

Editorial Reviews

When the second 39 Clues series ended in March, zealot fans were already speculating about the third. Here it is. A nest of net villains with scary prodigies have snatched the transformative serum that the Cahill family has successfully defended for five centuries. Trouble ahead for Cahill teenagers Amy and Danny, and their cast of supporters.

The 39 Clues remains . . .- A NEW YORK TIMES Bestselling Children's Book Series- A USA TODAY Bestseller- A WALL STREET JOURNAL Bestseller- A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Bestseller- An INDIE BOUND Bestseller

From the Publisher

2013-09-01
The Cahill super serum is in jeopardy…or has it already been compromised? Just when 13-year-old Dan and 16-year-old Amy Cahill began to think life might approach some semblance of normalcy at the Attleboro, Mass., estate they inherited from their grandmother Grace, the former matriarch of the Cahills, they are attacked at the graveside services for their attorney, Mr. McIntyre, and nearly buried alive. Then their faces are splashed over every tabloid and gossip website in town along with outlandish lies that portray them as spoiled rich kids. And then the federal government begins to investigate them for embezzlement. Someone is definitely after them. Following the trail leads to media mogul J. Rutherford Pierce, who came out of nowhere to control newspapers and businesses across the country. Disturbingly strong and invulnerable henchmen keep attacking; could the serum that Dan and Amy fought so hard to protect, the biggest secret of the Cahill clans, have been leaked? What would that mean to the Cahills…and the world? Good thing the branches of the family are still working together. Series veteran Watson kicks off a new quartet of Cahill adventures with a collection of showy, unrealistic action scenes sprinkled with a few puzzles and populated by two often inconsistent main characters. Pedestrian writing won't matter to series fans. Trading cards and online games will drive this offshoot series to the Gordon Korman–penned conclusion next year. (Multiplatform fiction. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews