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Ricky Diaz tries to avenge his mother's murder by completing a mission to steal back a radar detector, installed in a single engine plane, that a drug cartel is using to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the U.S. Will he succeed?
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 3/25/2009
ISBN-10: 0786810025
ISBN-13: 9780786810024
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In London, the teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, uncover plans for a deadly weapon, and race to find, and dismantle it, then confront the corrupt scientist behind the scheme. The sequel is STORM: the Ghost Machine.
Similar books: Alex Rider series
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 3/25/2009
ISBN-10: 0803732651
Alex Rider was told that his uncle died in a car accident, but he knows that's a lie. There were bullet holes in his uncle's windshield. Nothing prepares him for the news that his uncle was really a spy. Now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle's killers and complete Ian's final mission. Book one of the Alex Rider series.
Book Series: Alex Rider Adventure
Similar books: Sure Fire by Jack Higgins
Awards won: Rebecca Caudill Award
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/29/2009
ISBN-10: 0399236201
Reader Comments
Urging StoryCommenter: M, grade 3
I loved this book!It was a little sad at the ending though... but it will make any young reader dream of being a spy!
What a Thriller!Commenter: St. Charles Reader, grade 0
Alex Rider is turned into a spy and must find out the secret behind Stormbreaker, a super-computer with a secret of it's own.
Summer of the Swans
Betsy Byars (1970), 144 pages
Illustrated by Ted CoConis
Audience: 4th Grade - 8th Grade
Middle school student Sara feels as if she exists on two planes. Sometimes, she is happy and excited, the next moment, she is plunged into despair. Sara has been living with her Aunt Willie, her older sister, Wanda, and younger brother, Charlie, since her mother died and her father left. An illness with a high fever has left Charlie unable to speak and with the intelligence of a much younger child. Sara feels it is her responsibility to care for Charlie and defend him against the world, especially against boys like Joe Melby. Charlie disappears one night and Sara is sure that he has gone to look for the swans they watched the previous day. Before too long, Aunt Willie calls the police and the whole community is on the alert. When Joe Melby offers to help Sara search for Charlie, she isn't at all sure she wants to accept. While the suspense builds, Sara finds she is also on another search, for herself.
Similar books: The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
Awards won: John Newbery Medal
Reviewed by: vverscaj
Date read: 1/13/2011
ISBN-10: 0670681903
ISBN-13: 9780670681907
After their mother's death, fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, are resentful of having to live with their estranged father. They soon find they have more complicated problems, when their father is kidnapped, and their attempts to rescue him involve them in a dangerous international plot to control the world's oil. Death Run is the sequel.
Similar books: Alex Rider series
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 3/27/2009
ISBN-10: 0142412139
ISBN-13: 9780142412138
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