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The Viper's Nest
''The Viper's Nest'' is the seventh book in The 39 Clues series. It was written by Peter Lerangis and was released by Scholastic on February 2, 2010. The 39 Clues series is intended for children aged 8–12, and takes the form of a multimedia adventure story spanning 10 books. The stories focus on a brother and sister, Amy and Dan Cahill, and their efforts to piece together clues left by the matriarch of the family, Grace Cahill, upon her death. ''The Viper's Nest'' follows immediately on from the events of the preceding book: ''In Too Deep''. The events are described, below, using in-universe tone. Shocked by the death of Irina Spasky, Dan and Amy venture into danger once again. For the first, they begin to question how much they trust their au pair, Nellie. Later in the book, she regains their trust. The inside front and back covers read “MADRIGAL LEADER=GRACE” when the letters are alternated beginning with the front cover. Front Cover: MDIALAE=RC Back Cover: ARGLEDRGAE T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lerangis
Peter Duncan Lerangis (born 1955, in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York) is an American author of children's literature, children's and young adult fiction, best known for his ''Seven Wonders (series), Seven Wonders'' series and his work on the ''39 Clues'' series. Life and career Lerangis's work includes the ''Seven Wonders (series), Seven Wonders'' series, all five books of which made The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Books. He was also the author of ''The Viper's Nest'' and ''The Sword Thief'', two titles in the ''New York Times''-bestselling children's-book series ''The 39 Clues'', along with the second entry in a four-novella collection, ''Vespers Rising''. This book served as an introduction to a six-book ''39 Clues'' sequel entitled ''Cahills Vs. Vespers'', for which he wrote the third book, ''The Dead of the Night''. His other books include the historical novel ''Smiler's Bones'', the YA novel ''Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am'' (with Harry Mazer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Oh
This is the list of fictional and non-fictional characters who appeared in The 39 Clues franchise. They may appear in The 39 Clues books and audiobooks, cards, or the seriesofficial website Introduced in The Clue Hunt Clue Hunters Amy Cahill Amy Cahill (from Boston, Massachusetts) is a fourteen-year-old girl. She has jade eyes and red hair. An avid reader, Amy is fascinated with history and museums, showing herself to be intelligent and analytical. She is also agoraphobic and pyrophobic, the latter coming from haunting memories of the fire that killed her parents when she was seven. She is the protagonist of the franchise. It was Amy who first suggested that she and Dan join The Clue Hunt. She realized exactly how real their situation was when the Starling Triplets were injured in the Franklin Institute bombing. In Seoul, she trusted Ian Kabra, who betrayed her and left her for dead in a cave. In Moscow, she and Dan traveled alone, finding an ally in high-ranking Luc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American author. Korman has written 100 children's and young adult fiction books. Korman's books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide over a career spanning four decades and have appeared at number one on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. Early life Korman was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970. He grew up in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and attended German Mills Public School and public high school at Thornlea Secondary School. He moved to the United States to attend college at New York University where he studied film and film-writing. Korman received a BFA from New York University in 1985; with a degree in dramatic visual writing and a minor in motion picture and television. Career Korman wrote his first book when he was 12 years old, as part of an English class taught by a PE teacher in 7th grade. This became the manuscript for ''This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jude Watson
Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers. She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008 for the young adult novel ''What I Saw and How I Lied'', published under her real name by Scholastic Books. Life Blundell is better known as Jude Watson, an author of books set in the ''Star Wars'' universe. Her publisher, Scholastic, calls her "the most celebrated author in the prequel-era of the Star Wars phenomenon" (that is, Star Wars fiction set in the time frame of the three prequel movies). Writing for the Star Wars franchise, she worked with editors from LucasBooks as well as Scholastic. Her debut came when LucasBooks recruited her to write the Star Wars Journal ''Captive to Evil by Princess Leia Organa'', published by Scholastic in 1998. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlande De Lassus
Orlande de Lassus ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Tomás Luis de Victoria as the leading composers of the later Renaissance. Immensely prolific, his music varies considerably in style and genres, which gave him unprecedented popularity throughout Europe. Name Lassus's name appears in many spellings, often changed depending on the place in which his music was being performed or published. In addition to Orlande de Lassus, variations include Roland de Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Orlandus Lassus, Orlande de Lattre and Roland de Lattre. Life and career Orlande de Lassus was born in Mons in the County of Hainaut, Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). Information about his early years is scanty, although some uncorroborated stories have survived, the most famous of which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Cahill
This is the list of fictional and non-fictional characters who appeared in The 39 Clues franchise. They may appear in The 39 Clues books and audiobooks, cards, or the seriesofficial website Introduced in The Clue Hunt Clue Hunters Amy Cahill Amy Cahill (from Boston, Massachusetts) is a fourteen-year-old girl. She has jade eyes and red hair. An avid reader, Amy is fascinated with history and museums, showing herself to be intelligent and analytical. She is also agoraphobic and pyrophobic, the latter coming from haunting memories of the fire that killed her parents when she was seven. She is the protagonist of the franchise. It was Amy who first suggested that she and Dan join The Clue Hunt. She realized exactly how real their situation was when the Starling Triplets were injured in the Franklin Institute bombing. In Seoul, she trusted Ian Kabra, who betrayed her and left her for dead in a cave. In Moscow, she and Dan traveled alone, finding an ally in high-ranking Lucia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maze Of Bones
''The Maze of Bones'' is the first novel of The 39 Clues series, written by Rick Riordan and published September 9, 2008 by Scholastic. It stars Amy and Dan Cahill, two orphans who discover, upon their grandmother Grace's death, that they are part of the powerful Cahill family, whose members constantly fight each other for Clues, which are ingredients to a mysterious serum. The novel has received generally positive reviews. It is set to receive a graphic novel adaptation by Ethan Young in 2023. Story Plot The story begins with Grace Cahill lying on her deathbed. She requests that William McIntyre, her lawyer, change her will to the alternate version, then dies. A Man in Black then speaks with McIntyre. Grace's grandchildren, Amy and Dan Cahill, are taken to her funeral by their legal guardian, Grace's sister, Beatrice. Amy and Dan run into the athletic Holt siblings Hamilton, Reagan, and Madison Holt, then speak with the wealthy Kabra siblings, Ian and Natalie. Dan also point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vial
A vial (also known as a phial or flacon) is a small glass or plastic vessel or bottle, often used to store medication as liquids, powders or capsules. They can also be used as scientific sample vessels; for instance, in autosampler devices in analytical chromatography. Vial-like glass containers date back to classical antiquity; modern vials are often made of plastics such as polypropylene. There are different types of vials such as a single dose vial and multi-dose vials often used for medications. The single dose vial is only used once whereas a multi-dose vial can be used more than once. The CDC sets specific guidelines on multi-dose vials. History and etymology A vial can be tubular, or have a bottle-like shape with a neck. The volume defined by the neck is known as the headspace. The English word "vial" is derived from the Greek ''phiale'', meaning "a broad flat container". Comparable terms include the Latin ''phiala'', Late Latin ''fiola'' and Middle English ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kabras
This is the list of fictional and non-fictional characters who appeared in The 39 Clues franchise. They may appear in The 39 Clues books and audiobooks, cards, or the seriesofficial website Introduced in The Clue Hunt Clue Hunters Amy Cahill Amy Cahill (from Boston, Massachusetts) is a fourteen-year-old girl. She has jade eyes and red hair. An avid reader, Amy is fascinated with history and museums, showing herself to be intelligent and analytical. She is also agoraphobic and pyrophobic, the latter coming from haunting memories of the fire that killed her parents when she was seven. She is the protagonist of the franchise. It was Amy who first suggested that she and Dan join The Clue Hunt. She realized exactly how real their situation was when the Starling Triplets were injured in the Franklin Institute bombing. In Seoul, she trusted Ian Kabra, who betrayed her and left her for dead in a cave. In Moscow, she and Dan traveled alone, finding an ally in high-ranking Lucia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamonds
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, but diamond is metastable and converts to it at a negligible rate under those conditions. Diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any natural material, properties that are used in major industrial applications such as cutting and polishing tools. They are also the reason that diamond anvil cells can subject materials to pressures found deep in the Earth. Because the arrangement of atoms in diamond is extremely rigid, few types of impurity can contaminate it (two exceptions are boron and nitrogen). Small numbers of defects or impurities (about one per million of lattice atoms) color diamond blue (boron), yellow (nitrogen), brown (defects), green (radiation exposure), purple, pink, orange, or red. Diamond also has a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five UK Parliament constituency, constituencies. Ideologically an Economic liberalism, economic liberal and British Empire, imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to Spencer family, a wealthy, aristocratic family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British Raj, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaka Zulu
Shaka kaSenzangakhona ( – 22 September 1828), also known as Shaka Zulu () and Sigidi kaSenzangakhona, was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828. One of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu, he ordered wide-reaching reforms that re-organized the military into a formidable force. King Shaka was born in the lunar month of ''uNtulikazi'' (July) in the year of 1787 near present-day Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal Province, the son of the Zulu King Senzangakhona kaJama. Spurned as an illegitimate son, Shaka spent his childhood in his mother's settlements, where he was initiated into an '' ibutho lempi'' (fighting unit), serving as a warrior under Inkosi Dingiswayo. King Shaka further refined the ''ibutho'' military system and, with the Mthethwa Paramountcy's support over the next several years, forged alliances with his smaller neighbours to counter Ndwandwe raids from the north. The initial Zulu maneuvers were primarily defensive, as King Shaka preferred to apply pressu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
