Boyznbikes

This book is about a kid named Callum who is 16 years old and likes riding motorbikes. One day at school Callum got suspended for climbing up a tree to try and grab a pair of shoes hanging off a power line using a bamboo pole and reaching over a school fence near the road. He ended up falling on a nearby police car's bonnet. While Callum was at school he spoke to the principal beside his mum and dad. His parents didn't know what to do with him as his dad was about to leave for a big motorbike trip with his two best friends, Baz and Skid. A few days later Callum found himself packing to go on this huge motorbike ride with his dad and his two best friends. On the bike ride they would be travelling around the North Island of New Zealand. They left from their home in Gisborne and travelled to Rotorua. They visited many cities including Hawera, Taupo, Ohakune and Taranaki. As they were travelling back home they had to say goodbye to Baz and Skid as they went their separate ways. While Callum and his father were travelling back his father let out a big secret that Callum had a step sister so they stopped at his step sister's house and it was her birthday. His dad came up and said hi to a girl named Shelley and Callum began to feel that his dad had been cheating on his mother. Before Callum's dad married his mother he had been in love with a lady called Shelley and had a baby who is Callum's step sister. As they tried to ring his mum to see if she was OK there was no answer so they rung his gran and asked her if she could get hold of Callum's mum and she said that she would call back if she heard from his mum. They waited a few hours but got no response. They tried her once again and this time she answered and said "get here now, something has happened". As their trip home neared its end they said goodbye to Shelley and Callum's step sister and took an eight hour drive to Gisborne. Throughout the night Callum fell asleep and he put duck tape around his body to make sure he stayed on the bike while he was asleep. As they entered Gisborne they went straight to the hospital to find his mum and when they found her she was in the hospital in bed asleep. When she woke up she saw Callum standing in front of her and she said "Callum, I'm having a baby". On the big ride Callum had discovered two very big secrets, his dad had already had another baby for him and now his mum is pregnant. This was an adventure with his dad that he would never forget and would change his life forever. I recommend this book for boys who like adventures and enjoy reading stories about motorbikes.

The 39 Clues book 8 The Emperor's Code

The hunt for the 39 clues that leads to unimaginable power takes 14 year old Amy Cahill and her 11 year old brother Dan to the Forbidden City in China. When Amy and Dan board their plane to China a movie that was filmed in China is played on a small TV screen and in the movie the Janus crest is shown on the wall of a building. So Dan sets off to find the exact same Janus crest that he saw in the movie. He searches through lots of buildings and finally finds a green faded picture the Janus crest. He climbs up to the roof and through a open window he finds a silk blanket. On the silk blanket their are five crests, the Lucian crest, the Janus crest, the Ekaterina crest, the Tomas crest and the Cahill crest. The five crests on the blanket make an equation. The equation is the Lucian crest+the Janus crest+the Ekaterina crest and the Tomas crest=the Cahill crest. While Dan retrieved the silk blanket a Chinese man yells at Dan for trying to steel the precious Chinese blanket. Before Dan's own eyes he is kidnapped by Ian Kabra, Natalie Kabra and their vicious mother Isabel Kabra. They take Dan very far away from Amy. While Dan is kidnapped he meets up with his cousin Jonah Wizard and he offers to help Dan find Amy and their au pair Nellie. Amy feels so bad so they search everywhere even the great wall of China but by mistake they drop Grace Cahill's cat Saladin down the great wall. Amy ends up finding Dan and they race up a huge mountain to search for the next clue. Amy is the first to climb the mountain and find the clue but she makes a terrible mistake she drops the clue down the side of the mountain as it shatters on the rocks below.

The 39 Clues book 7 the Vipers Nest

The hunt for the 39 clues is still long from finished and Amy and Dan are off to Pretoria, South Africa. In Pretoria Amy and Dan run into their deadly relatives the Holt's and they will find out what family branch they belong to. Will they be cunning Lucian's,
creative Janus, inventive Ekaterina, physical Tomas or evil and unknown Madrigals. After seeing Irina Spasky die in Jakarta Amy felt terrible. The clue hunt seems to be taking them both to a Tomas stronghold. They have used the Holt's lost ID card to get inside the stronghold. While they are in the stronghold they are greeted by fellow Tomas and they are given a tour of the stronghold. But then Dan sneaks outside searching for the hidden treasure owned by the warrior Shaka. Dan digs up the Tomas treasure but is found just before he ran away with the treasure. The Tomas members chased Dan through some bushes with Amy and their au pair Nellie. In the end Amy and Dan didn't get to keep the clue (which was Shaka's necklace) and they gave it back to the Tomas but more importantly they now know that they belong to the Madrigals.