Alex Rider has a perfectly normal life apart from the fact that he lives with his uncle as his parents died when he was younger. Until the day his uncle dies in a car crash as he wasn’t wearing a seat belt. This surprise’s Alex as his Uncle was always strict about wearing a seat belt and he would never go through a round about unless Alex had a seat belt on. At Ian Rider’s funeral, Alex meet’s many people he doesn’t know and he spot’s a man with a gun! Confused, Alex returns home to find a van parked outside his Uncles home and his uncles study empty. He finds the address written on the side of the van and goes to explore. There, he finds a junk yard and his Uncles BMW. Nearly crushed to death, Alex manages to escape the place and when he returns home, he get’s a call from the Royal & General Bank, where his Uncle previously worked, and is told something that will change his life forever.
Herod Sayle is a Billionaire who invented a computer called the Stormbreaker. M16 are positive that he is up to no good. Herod Sayle is planning to give every school in England a Stormbreaker as a gift and the government are over the moon. As the government do nothing, M16 take action sending Alex to explore under the disguise of a competition winner, Felix Lester. Armed with a couple of gadgets, Alex must find a way to discover the billionaire’s evil plot and save England from a terrible fate.
I really enjoyed this book and I recommend it to anyone who wants a book that makes them grip their seat tightly, and get transported to a completely different world. That’s how I felt when I read this book. When you look up from the pages you think ‘ Oh right, school. Shucks I wish I was true though I wouldn’t want to be Alex Rider right now!’ I love the way Anthony Horowitz adds humour with adventure; to me, that’s a great recipe for the perfect story.
I hope you decide to read this and if you do, well, GET READING!!!!!!!
Stephenie Edgley has quite a normal life until her uncle, Gordon, dies. In his will, he gives Stephanie all his estates and a mysterious man named Skulduggery Pleasant a simple saying. The next night, Stephenie and her mum go to visit the estates and the car breaks down. Stephenie stays at the mansion while her mum goes to fix the car when a man knocks on her window asking to come in. When Stephenie disagrees, the man breaks the window and enters the house. Unexpectedly, a man comes to Stephenie’s rescue and hurls fireballs towards the other man. When Stephenie’s rescuer defeats the man and introduces himself as Skulduggery Pleasant, Stephenie gets shocked as he is well and truly a skeleton. As Stephenie becomes more acquainted with Skulduggery, she learns that there’s a whole world of magicians living on Earth. Skullduggery’s a wizard-detective who believes Gordon was murdered and did not die of a heart attack. So, Stephenie and Skullduggery set off on a journey to find out who killed Gordon and why.
Black Minx is a filly with a mind of her own which is why she gets along quite well Henry Dailey, the trainer of the two greatest horses ever to step on a race track, the Black and Satan. She was bred by the Black himself and a lovely mare named Elf. When Henry buys her to train with Alec Ramsay, she has had terrible life and has earned a stumped tail because of it. She has bad manners and unlike her great sire, she hates to run. However, Henry is certain he can make a Kentucky Derby horse out of her. With a couple of old handy tricks up his sleeve, he and Alec begin the impossible task of training a half mad, little black filly to become a Derby filly to be remembered in years to come. But Black Minx has a few tricks of her own..
Bella Swan’s mother remarried a baseball player, so, Bella decides to go stay with her father in Forks, Washington where she joins high school. There, she finds out about the Cullens, a mysterious family who keep to themselves. Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie and Edward are all drop-dead gorgeous. Bella quickly falls in love with Edward. Of course, as Jessica, one of Bella’s new friends puts it, the girls at school aren’t good enough for any of them.
Bess’ family receives an invitation to a family reunion but Bess is the only one who can go as her parents and her brother have other things to do. So, her mum arranges that she goes with her aunt. At the reunion, Bess meets a strange man who tells her she is related to Sir Walter Raleigh. So, Bess decides to visit the tower where Walter Raleigh was imprisoned for many years to see if she finds, well, anything to do with her family. While she searches, she finds, believe it or not, at the end of Raleigh walk, the ghost of Walter Raleigh.
Creel Carlbrun’s family is too poor to feed her so her aunt decides to sacrifice her to the Carlieff town dragon. Only a lord could save her from the dragon’s clutches. Hagen, Creel’s brother says that he has shouted at the dragons cave many times, so he’s sure there is no such thing as the dragon of Carlieff town, but when the day comes and a dragon does appear, Hagen is shocked. But, as a bargain goes, Creel is taken in by the dragon, Theoradus, and it isn’t long before the lord’s son comes riding the hill. Theoradus is 670 years old and after being hidden from humans for such a long time, he doesn’t fancy having to fight a knight for a person who he has absolutly nothing to do with. So, Creel bargains with the dragon: She tells the lord that there is no dragon, in return, the dragon gives Creel a piece of gold from his hoard. Unfortunately, Creel finds out that dragons do not sleep on gold and that those are fairy tales. Instead of gold, she receives a pair of shoes which contain a lot more history than Creel thinks.
Nicholas, a 9 year old boy, is always up to something that is not always very smart. He has a great gang: Rufus, Alec, Geoffrey, Matthew, Eddie and Jeremy. Their favorite games are to tease Cuthbert, the teacher’s pet, as well as punching each other on the nose.
Far away, on the Isles of Bresal, live creatures which we’ve always classified as fairy tale creatures. The Dragons.
Can Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III come and be the hero yet again? This time, a Venomous Vorpent has stung Hiccups best friend, Fishlegs. The symptoms: fever, runny nose and worst of all, episodes of madness. Fishlegs has charged down a mountain on skis towards the craziest of all Viking tribes: the Hysterics. To save him, Hiccup had to fire an arrow in Norbert the Nutjob’s (The chief of the Hysterics tribe) bottom! Fishlegs also shouted some very rude words to Hiccups dad, Stoick the Vast, chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe. This disease is fatal and Fishlegs could die in less than 24 hours.
