Year 2 Book Reviews
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The Sleepwalker by Robert Muchamore
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/05/2011 20:10:12 - Reviewed by aarnould - Categories: Genre,Action/Suspense,Fiction
The Sleepwalker
The Sleepwalker, written by Robert Muchamore, is an adventure/action novel. It is also extremely exciting and gripping. The main characters are James Adams, a boy in his teens and his eleven-year-old sister Lauren. The Adams siblings’ real surname is Choke. This was the name of their mum, who died in the first book of the series. At her death, James and Lauren joined an undercover organisation which is a branch of MI5 called Cherub, with all agents being children. Any new recruit has to change ...

STORMBREAKER by Anthony Horowitz
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
05/05/2011 16:11:29 - Reviewed by T Saget - Categories: Action/Suspense,Crime/Mystery,Science Fiction,Fiction
STORMBREAKER
Stormbreaker is an action / thriller by Anthony Horowitz which is about a teenage spy. Stormbreaker is one of a full series of Alex Rider novels .

Furnace Death Sentence by Gordon Smith
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
21/05/2010 11:46:33 - Reviewed by doflanagan - Categories: Horror,War,Action/Suspense,Fiction
Furnace Death Sentence
Furnace-Death Sentence is the last of the Furnace trilogy. The author of the trilogy is Alexander Gordon Smith. The main character is Alex Sawyer, a 14-year-old framed for murder who is sent to Furnace, where he discovers that death is a blessing and life is a punishment.

The Strawberry Picker. by Monica Feth
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
21/05/2010 11:38:36 - Reviewed by c.owen - Categories: Horror,Action/Suspense,Crime/Mystery,Fiction
The Strawberry Picker.
The StrawberryPicker, by Monica Feth, is a book about an out-of-control serial killer. The genre is murder mystery for young adults. It is set in Germany.

Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
21/05/2010 11:35:58 - Reviewed by adeadman - Categories: Action/Suspense,Fiction
Scorpia
Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz is a thrilling action book. The main character is Alex Rider. He is a teenage agent for a secret spy organisation called MI6. He is in Venice in search of secrets hidden in the past about his father. He operates on his own and has to relate to other characters with great caution.

Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
21/05/2010 11:29:13 - Reviewed by jsweeney - Categories: Fantasy,Action/Suspense,Crime/Mystery,Fiction
Creature of the Night
Creature of the Night is a thriller written by Kate Thompson. The book is set in Ireland. It is about a teenage boy called Bobby, who has been made to move from Dublin to Ennis, County Clare, by his mother. Bobby is adamant that he is not going to stay in the little village near Ennis and on the bus journey down constantly tells his mother “I’m not staying down there, you can’t make me.”

Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
21/05/2010 11:21:27 - Reviewed by lrushton - Categories: Action/Suspense,Fiction,Crime/Mystery
Snakehead
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz is an Action/Adventure novel about a reluctant spy who has to take on one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world to discover his true identity.

Jimmy Coates : Killer by Joe Craig
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/12/2009 09:03:05 - Reviewed by adeadman - Categories: Fantasy,Action/Suspense
Jimmy Coates : Killer
Jimmy Coates: Killer is written by Joe Craig. It is an action novel which gives you a constant edge-of-the-seat read. The main characters are Jimmy, Felix, and Georgie, who assures Felix and Jimmy’s escape from the preying eyes of NJ7, an assassin organisation that create self-aware killing machines inside what appear to be humans. Felix and Jimmy are best friends and co-operate with each other courageously throughout the novel.

Necropolis by Anthony Horowitz
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/12/2009 09:00:51 - Reviewed by hmacduff - Categories: Action/Suspense,Fiction
Necropolis
Necropolis was written by Anthony Horowitz and is the fourth in the Power of Five or Pentagon series. It is classified as fiction. The main character is called Matt, who is English and has been in the story from the beginning of book one, Raven’s Gate . There is also Pedro, a South American boy from the streets who joins Matt in book two, Evil Star . Next we meet Scot and Jamey. They are twins and travel in a circus. Both of them are English and they join the team in book four

Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/12/2009 09:00:25 - Reviewed by jrichards - Categories: Action/Suspense,Fiction
Crocodile Tears
Crocodile Tears is a book by Anthony Horowitz and is part of the Alex Rider series. The book is action packed but there is some adventure in it as well. When Alex wins a poker game in a Scottish castle, he is sucked into a world of lies and danger. .

Small Steps by Louis Sachar
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/12/2009 08:54:35 - Reviewed by jsweeney - Categories: Action/Suspense,Friends/Family,Fiction
Small Steps
Small Steps by Louis Sachar, is an action adventure story of a character called Armpit trying to turn his life around after coming out of Camp Green Lake. He has five small steps to do this. The first step is to: graduate from high school, get a job, save his money, avoid situations that might turn violent and finally lose the name Armpit.

The Sleepwalker by Robert Muchamore
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/12/2009 08:53:39 - Reviewed by doflanagan - Categories: Action/Suspense,Crime/Mystery,Fiction
The Sleepwalker
Robert Muchamore's Sleepwalker novel is the ninth epic action book in the Cherub series .

Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/12/2009 08:47:36 - Reviewed by lrushton - Categories: Action/Suspense,Fiction
Eagle Strike
Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz is an action/adventure novel and is part of the Alex Rider series. Alex Rider is 14 and a reluctant MI6 agent, who has been called up for several cases since his uncle Ian Rider was shot when driving in Cornwall . Sabina Pleasure met Alex when they were ball boys/girls in Wimbledon . Damian Cray is a multi-millionaire who has donated millions of pounds to charity.

Divine Madness by Robert Muchamore
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/12/2009 08:44:06 - Reviewed by mkantor - Categories: Action/Suspense,Crime/Mystery,Fiction
Divine Madness
Divine Madness is an action packed thriller. It is the fifth novel in the Cherub series by Robert Muchamore. Cherub is a secret detective organisation with children, mainly orphans, called the cherubs, under seventeen who get trained up at Cherub Camp to be spies and spy mainly on adults all over the world. The books are full of adventures, excitement, terror, suspense and surprise.

 
 
 
 
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