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Was Jonah Wizard based on any specific celebrity?

In the The 39 Clues series, Jonah Wizard is the Cahill's famous face - he's a star hip-hop musician, and he gets mobbed everywhere. He's a celebrity - he flies private planes, has tons of money, etc. ...
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Who makes the puzzles hidden inside The 39 Clues books?

In almost every single The 39 Clues book, there are puzzles hidden inside the book, such as on the page numbers, or on the covers. i.e, in The Viper's Nest (series 1, book 7), starting on page 39 ...
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What are the Guardians guarding?

In The 39 Clues: Cahills vs Vespers, Atticus Rosenbloom's mother tells him that they are 'Guardians'. What are they guarding? I don't think that it can be the different pieces of the Doomsday Device, ...
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Why did Irina choose to die in the fire and not jump?

In The 39 Clues, The Clue Hunt: In Too Deep, Irina Spasky dies in a fire set by Isabel Kabra rescuing Alistair Oh and Amy and Dan Cahill. (Chapter 25, pages 196-198) But why didn't she just jump from ...
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How did the authors of The 39 Clues decide on a plot outline?

The The 39 Clues series is written by a whole lot of authors, like Rick Riordan, Gordan Korman, Jude Watson, Margaret Peterson Haddix, etc. Each person writes a book, and then someone else writes the ...
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