The book starts out by telling you about Alex. She lives with her uncle who owns a shop that sells only doorknobs. She goes to school at Wigpowder-Steele Academy. She likes learning, but she doesn’t like having to wear a uniform to school each day. She doesn’t really like the teachers there, because she thinks their mean. She only likes her P.E. Teacher, Mr. Underwood. He eventually comes to live with Alex and her Uncle because his house is burned down by the Wigpowders. They burned down his house because he knows of treasure that is in the town. He moved there so he could get his family’s treasure and take it back from the Wigpowders. He has tried to keep it a secret that he is the true heir to the treasure.
Alex went to a museum in the town she lives that is run by the Da. The elder woman that was guarding the museum asked her where her adult was and Alex told her that she was going to meet her adult there. When the woman left her alone she went into a secret room that was in the museum to see what was in there. She left the room and she thought she had gotten away with sneaking around. Then the people from the Daughter’s of the Founding Father’s Preservation Society went into the secret room that they were only allowed in. They found Alex’s toothbrush and they made Alex stay there and give them wine that belonged to the museum and do other strange tasks.
When Alex gets back home she finds out that someone had pushed over a self of doorknobs and it landed on her uncle, killing him. The Ironic Gentlemen is a group of pirates that kidnapped Mr. Underwood and accidentally killed Alex’s uncle in the process. At the time Alex didn’t know who it was that kidnapped Mr. Underwood. The Ironic Gentlemen kidnapped Mr. Underwood so they could find out where the treasure is. She has to fight off pirates and save Mr. Underwood. Can she do it? Read the book to find out.
Alex is a girl that doesn’t get along well with her peers and she is a tomboy. Mr. Underwood is a nice teacher that has a family secret that haunts him. Alex’s uncle was a nice person that cared for Alex after her parents.
The author wrote this book because she wanted to entertain you. The book has some parts that are very funny and you can get a good laugh from them. Other parts are serious and makes you think about what is going to happen next and it leaves in suspense. A lot of the book is leaned towards making you laugh.
Do you think that Mr. Underwood knew he would be kidnapped if he came back to the town with the treasure? Do you think that Alex was hurting more about her uncle dying than she showed? Do you think that Alex will have more fun with Mr. Underwood after this experience?
I liked this book. I thought it was funny and I got a good laugh in some parts of the book. Other parts really made you think about the characters and what was going in the book. The book isn’t realistic and it seems like the events in this book would never happen in real life. They are far-fetched and I think that was the author’s intent.
Alex gasped, then covered her mouth. It all made perfect sense. These men weren’t kidnapping a sixth-grade teacher, they were kidnapping the heir to a pirate fortune!. Mr. Underwood had been captured by Steele’s men! They had finally succeeded. Well then, there was only one thing she could do. She would just have to rescue him. Somehow, and the task struck her as virtually impossible, she would have to track down the Ironic Gentlemen.
I think this is the most important passage in the book because it tells you what Alex’s goal is and what she needs to do. It clarifies who kidnapped Mr. Underwood. You know that Alex is going to have a near impossible task to complete. It makes you want to read on to see how Alex approaches this goal.
The book has parts where its funny and other parts that are serious. The author really does a good job of entertaining you and making you want to keep reading the book. There is suspense and action which keeps you interested in reading. I thought that book was good and was funny and serious at times.
