Cass and Max-Ernest don't have any friends. Cass is a survivalist, meaning that she wants to be prepared for every possible disaster. Max-Ernest's parents are divorced, and he has a condition that makes him talk nonstop. One day at Cass's substitute grandfathers' house, a real estate agent named Gloria drops off a bunch of stuff. The things are from the house of a magician who is thought to have died in a fire. One item is extremely unusual. It's a big wooden box called "The Symphony of Smells" with a bunch of tubes with different scents inside. At school, Cass meets Max-Ernest, and they discover a piece of paper with a code hidden in the box. When decoded, it reads "Help". Max-Ernest and Cass go to the magician's old house to search for clues and meet two people, Ms.Mauvais and Dr.L, who are trying to find the magician's secret. When Ms. Mauvais and Dr.L kidnap their classmate Benjamin Blake, Cass and Max-Ernest will have to rescue him and prevent them from learning the secret. I liked this book because it was very funny.

Cass and Max-Ernest don't have any friends. Cass is a survivalist, meaning that she wants to be prepared for every possible disaster. Max-Ernest's parents are divorced, and he has a condition that makes him talk nonstop. One day at Cass's substitute grandfathers' house, a real estate agent named Gloria drops off a bunch of stuff. The things are from the house of a magician who is thought to have died in a fire. One item is extremely unusual. It's a big wooden box called "The Symphony of Smells" with a bunch of tubes with different scents inside. At school, Cass meets Max-Ernest, and they discover a piece of paper with a code hidden in the box. When decoded, it reads "Help". Max-Ernest and Cass go to the magician's old house to search for clues and meet two people, Ms.Mauvais and Dr.L, who are trying to find the magician's secret. When Ms. Mauvais and Dr.L kidnap their classmate Benjamin Blake, Cass and Max-Ernest will have to rescue him and prevent them from learning the secret. I liked this book because it was very funny.

Cass and Max-Ernest have stopped the Midnight Sun from learning the secret of immortality and also saved their classmate Benjamin Blake. Plus, they've been invited to join the Terces Society, a group dedicated to stopping the Midnight Sun. But before they get the chance to join, they get captured by Ms.Mauvais and Dr. L, the leaders of the Midnight Sun. Eventually, they escape and discover a round white ball in a trunk. It allows them to listen to people talking, even if they're a mile away! Finally, Max-Ernest and Cassandra go to the Museum of Magic, where they join the Terces Society. There, they meet the magician Pietro, and he informs them that the ball is the Sound Prism, and the Midnight sun stole it from the museum. Soon, they learn that the Midnight sun is looking for the evil alchemist Lord Pharoah's grave, where they hope they will find the Secret. They also learn that the Sound Prism and a homunculus, a human made in a bottle, are the keys to finding the grave. Will Cass and Max-Ernest be able to find Lord Pharoh's tomb before the Midnight Sun? I liked this book because of the author's style and also because it was very interesting.

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