N is for — Nellie from The 39 Clues series 
Nellie Gomez is not your typical au pair. Sporting a punk rocker style with colorful hair, glittery eye shadow, and a silver snake nose ring, she spends most of her time singing to the loud music on her iPod and reading exotic cookbooks. She drives like a maniac and isn’t above whacking someone upside the head if they deserve it.
She takes her job seriously, though, and accompanies Amy and Dan Cahill on their perilous quest to find the 39 clues that lead to a secret formula others are willing to kill for. As the series progresses, she becomes increasingly involved in the quest, and Amy and Dan discover she has other talents, like being a pilot, and other secrets that shock them and change their whole relationship.
I like quirky supporting characters, and Nellie is one of those that really adds another interesting dimension to the story. She’s smart, brave, and unpredictable and becomes like a big sister to the Cahill kids. Later, she becomes their guardian and is inducted into their branch of the Cahill family.
Photo Credit: the39clues.scholastic.com
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© Lori L. MacLaughlin and Writing, Reading, and the Pursuit of Dreams, 2015. All rights reserved.
Writing, Reading, and the Pursuit of Dreams 
That series is new to me. Dare I say, she looks gallus?
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Yes, I think she does. 🙂 It’s a young adult series that my kids and I really liked.
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Like the quirky characters. Never heard of that series though.
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The series was put out by Scholastic for YA/middle grade kids. The 39 Clues has a dedicated website to go with the books where kids can solve puzzles and do their own clue search.
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I’ve seen the series but haven’t read them. Are they planning on having 39 books, one for each clue? That would be a long series!
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I wondered that, too, when I first started reading them. The first series included 10 books and was really good. The second series, Cahills vs. Vespers, which picked up where the first series left off, had 6 books. I didn’t like the way that one ended, so I haven’t read the later series, Unstoppable, or the new series that just came out, Doublecross, but my son has.
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I’ll look into that first series, then. Thanks for the rundown!
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You’re welcome!
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Fascinating! You’re right, supporting characters do make the book richer, don’t they?
Elizabeth Mueller
AtoZ 2015
My Little Pony
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Yes, they do!
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She sounds like a very cool character, and quite different from what you normally see in stories!
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She is. I enjoy stories with quirky characters who do the unexpected.
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