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 * __The Alchemyst {The secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel } __

Author :Micheal Scott || Two fifteen year old teenage twins start working at jobs across the street from each other.The one twin named Sophie sees some oddly dressed people walk into the place her brother Josh works at. Josh then sees the manager of the shop, Nick Fleming, fighting with the oddly dressed people using what seems like magic. When all of the fighting was over Nick Fleming reveals that magic is actually real and the people he was fighting have been following him all across the world for about six hundred years. Dr.John Dee, the person that Nick Fleming was fighting has stolen the Book Of Abraham the Mage the book that Nick and his wife need the be immortal.John Dee took Perenelle with him. During that time Nick Fleming also reveals that his real name is Nicholas Flamel.To escape Dr.John Dee, Nicholas,Josh, Sophie, have to go and get Scathach, a two thousand year old elder ( one of the beings that ruled the Earth before humans. Some of the elders think that they should rule the Earth instead of the humans and John Dee's plan is to bring back the elders, but he can't because Josh ripped those pages out of the Book of Abraham that he needs. The group with Josh and Sophie go to the world tree called Yggdrasill to try and awaken Sophie and Josh's magical powers, because Nicholas thinks they are the twins talked about in legend that could save or destroy the world.When Josh and Sophie are there John Dee orders an attack on the Yggdrasill, and while that happens Hekate, the guardian of that shadowrealm awakens Sophie.Just afterwards John Dee destorys the world tree which is linked to Hekate so she dies, and Josh, Sophie, and Nicholas has to flee again to another place to stay. Since Sophie feels so overwhelmed by the magical powers, she goes to see the witch of Endor in hope to help her be in control of her sences.When they get to the Witch of Endor's place in Ojai she wraps Sophie in a mummy like web giving her all of the witch's memories and the power to control the element of air. While Sophie is getting wrapped up in a mummy like web John Dee persuaded Josh to think Nicholas Flamel is a bad person at a park. Meanwhile Perenelle Flamel is being kept prisoner on Alcatraz island. Soon after Nicholas,Sophie, and Scathach realize that John Dee is out there and go out looking for him.When they find him they see that Dee has brought back the dead to life. Luckily the Witch of Endor opened a leygate (a leygate is when two or more ley lines meet and you can go across the world in an instant ) and Nicholas, Scathach, Josh, and Sophie went inside it and could have been anywhere in the world at that time. Will Josh be awakened, will Perenelle be saved, will Dr. John Dee be stopped? || Don't assume things are not real before you really know. || I //really// loved this book! I thought this book at some points was funny because lots of times when Sophie and Josh were in a very impotant situation Josh checked his e-mail and said, "Life goes on, but e-mail stops for no man." This book was also very descriptive in the action parts like when Dee came into Flamel's shop in the beginning of the book the author wrote,"Fleming tossed another invisible ball into the corner of the room. Josh Newman followed the motion of his boss's arm. As the unseen ball sailed through the air,a shaft of sunlight caught it,and for an instant, he saw it glow green a faceted, like an emerald globe." ||