The 39 Clues

This is Day Four of “Operation: Follow Grace Cahill until you figure out what she’s doing and why Reginald thinks she’s a problem.”

I found an excellent disguise — I’ve been dressing as a dog! It’s pretty tiring crawling all day, but it’s worth it to stay undercover!

I’ve been following Grace everywhere she goes: the supermarket, the bank, the Russian embassy. She doesn’t suspect a thing! Today, I made a BIG discovery. Grace dropped her notebook right in front of me! I knew it was important because I heard Grace telling someone about it on the phone. She said, “Yes. I am carrying the top secret notebook right now. I hope I don’t drop it in front of a superspy. I wouldn’t want anyone else to see the confidential information inside.” But then she did drop it!! Boy, what a lucky day! (Especially since I didn’t look particularly doggish at that moment. I had taken my mask off to eat some peanuts.)

I looked inside the notebook and found all these strange codes. I wonder what they mean.

I think I figured out Reginald’s top secret assignment for me! I heard him talking to someone about the “Grace Cahill problem” today. OK, so he hasn’t officially assigned it to me yet, but I’m going to surprise him! I know all about Grace Cahill. She’s this cousin of mine who’s always flying off to strange countries and causing trouble. I’m going to find out what she’s up to!

Phew! It’s tiring working for Section 7, the secretest of all the secret sections of the government. It’s so secret that I don’t even really know what we do! My brother Reginald got me a job there because Lucians are supposed to infiltrate the government as much as possible. Reginald is too busy to infiltrate it himself because he’s always off on Lucian business. I want to help too, but he doesn’t give me a lot of assignments. I think he’s saving me for a really important mission that’s too secret to talk about. It may even be too secret to think about! I better stop thinking about it . . . OK stopping now . . . need to try harder . . . wow, this is hard . . . oooh, I think I smell cookies!

Finally! A place to record my top secret thoughts! I used to hide my journal under my mattress, but that didn’t work out so well. Then I tried writing in code. I made it up as I went along, which made me feel VERY smart. But it was kind of difficult to read later. (Note to self: Find out what “goat omega cotton candy 187 juice box *&@” means. It could be very important!)

I’m going to record all my top secret spy activity here. It’s completely safe because I made sure to click “private.” Those guys at Section 7 don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m an excellent spy!