Everybody thinks that Cass is a freak, freakshow,crazy and just plain out weird. Everybody thinks that Max-Ernest is weird, crazy needs a mental hospital, and that his jokes are really bad. When one faithful day in the town of xxxxxxx ( sorry but bosh doesn't put the name of the town in the book) Max-Ernest walks up to Cass to ask what she is doing and Cass answers that she is looking for toxic waste under the school. No matter how many times Cass pleas to her school principal she doesn't believe Cass. After her many atempts Cass suddenly sees Benjamin Blake getting into a mysterious car. What is Benjamin getting into. Find out and read.
The Name of this Book Is Secret (The Secret Series)
By Pseudonymous Bosch
Book 1 of 5 in the
The Secret Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 3 - 7 | Grades 3 - 6 | U | 5.6 | 59485 |
Read the series that's sold more than 2 million copies--if you dare!
Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And he certainly wouldn't want you to know about the hair-raising adventures that follow and the nefarious villains they face. You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a secret. A Big Secret.
Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And he certainly wouldn't want you to know about the hair-raising adventures that follow and the nefarious villains they face. You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a secret. A Big Secret.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780316265027
ISBN-10: 0316265020
Published on 5/12/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
Book Reviews (233)
So gooooooood
This is such an amazing series - it's also one of the best books that I have ever read. Bosch tells the story in a way that Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) would tell the story. I think that the most interesting thing about the Secret series is that almost everything is a secret. The character's names are substituted for different names, even the place's names are substituted. Each book is based upon each sense: the first one being the sense of smell, the second one being the sense of hearing and the last three being the senses of taste, sight, and touch. The author tells the story as if you were right there, conversing with you, with clever little footnotes at the bottom of almost each page. The series revolves around The Secret. A Secret so big, and so important which makes you want to read on. The plot was quirky and unusual - in a VERY good way. The unusual plot made the series stand out. The illustrations at the beginning of each chapter provided little "tidbits" of what would happen during that chapter, without giving too much away. Overall, I strongly recommend this favorite of mine. I hope you'll find yourself compelled to turn each page - from the first page, to the last.
These books are so exciting and filled with suspense! I could not stop reading
Cass carries around a backpack with survival gear, supposedly because her father was killed by lightning, except he wasn't, so it's not really an excuse. Max-Ernest is an incessant chatterbox, which lands him in therapy and social pariah-hood. They team up to look into a mysterious coded message left in the belongings of an elderly magician who apparently died in a fire. What they find is a group of mysterious immortals who kidnap children with synesthesia, for reasons that never become completely clear, but are apparently connected to their method of prolonging life. When a boy from their school is kidnapped, they decide to try to rescue him.
Cass carries around a backpack with survival gear, supposedly because her father was killed by lightning, except he wasn't, so it's not really an excuse. Max-Ernest is an incessant chatterbox, which lands him in therapy and social pariah-hood. They team up to look into a mysterious coded message left in the belongings of an elderly magician who apparently died in a fire. What they find is a group of mysterious immortals who kidnap children with synesthesia, for reasons that never become completely clear, but are apparently connected to their method of prolonging life. When a boy from their school is kidnapped, they decide to try to rescue him.
Cass carries around a backpack with survival gear, supposedly because her father was killed by lightning, except he wasn't, so it's not really an excuse. Max-Ernest is an incessant chatterbox, which lands him in therapy and social pariah-hood. They team up to look into a mysterious coded message left in the belongings of an elderly magician who apparently died in a fire. What they find is a group of mysterious immortals who kidnap children with synesthesia, for reasons that never become completely clear, but are apparently connected to their method of prolonging life. When a boy from their school is kidnapped, they decide to try to rescue him.
It was great! I loved the suspense. I also really loved the way the story was told. I don't want to give the story away, though.
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This book was amazing. At first though, I really didn't get into it after the first few chapters. After those chapters, I was so amazed at the way the story progressed. There was humor in it, which was a plus. If I had the time, I would read the other books!
In this book Cass and Max-Ernest embark on an unreal adventure deep within Egyptology. Cass, a survivalist ready and preped for every diaster that could occur. Max-Ernest, a kid who live with both of his parents ina split house. His most powerful weapon, his mouth. When several kids that all have one thing in common start to disapear, it's up to Cass and Max-Ernest to save the kids and unravel the the magician's (that's right there is a magician behind it all) riddles.