Action+(Thriller)

John Kim Grade 7 Ms. Ulster

Title: Alex Rider : Stormbreakers 2. Author: Anthony Horowitz 3. Setting: England 4. Plot (one sentence only – NO SPOILERS): Very exciting but obvious at the same time. 5. Describe two characters briefly: Alex Rider: Cousin of Ian Rider, teenage spy of the MI6 Alan Blunt. The chief of MI6 who forces Alex to become a spy. 6. Themes: The main theme about this book is revenge. Alex Rider goes to the computer factory where his only family member, Ian Rider died to discover the truth. **__LONGER ANSWERS__:** Please take your time with these answers and remember to use examples from the book. **1.** **Explain** why you chose the book that you read and what about it piqued your interest. Well, a grade 6 humanities teacher recommended me this book and I started reading than I realized it was quite interesting so I got sucked in to the book and knew that it was a series of books so I’m on my third book on the Alex Rider series. Because MI6 is about spies and people love to talk about it but they don’t actually make it into a book like this one. I think that’s the main reason I loved about the book, the content.

Quote; ‘We have doubts about Sayle so we send a man down. Our best man. He finds something and he ends up dead. //Use at least one quote from the book to help your reader understand why the book caught your attention.// 1. Another book? Yes there are series of Alex Rider books which I’m reading right now. 2. A Movie: I’ve seen the Alex Rider: Stormbreakers movie. 3. Your own experiences: I can’t really connect to a teenage spy with my life. I think the only thing we have in common is that we are both go to school. Although he the character in the book misses out school a lot. ‘He was just a normal schoolboy…’ //Use at least one quote from the book to help your reader understand the connection.// I would certainly recommend this book if people do want to read it, I recommend them to read this book first because this is the first among all the series of Alex Rider books.
 * 2.** **Make a** **connection** between the setting, genre or a character in the book and one of the following:
 * 3.** **Would you recommend** this book to other middle school students? Why or why not?

Elaine Fang Mrs. Williams 7/8

This summer, I read a splendid book called The Mysterious Benedict Society. The book was written by a very impressive writer named Trenton Lee Stewart. This book is such a good book that it is one of the New York Times bestseller. The reason I chose this book was because my friend recommended it and it looked sort of interesting.

The Mysterious Benedict Society is about four extremely intelligent children who went to take a test that was designed for talented kids and of course, they passed. After the test, they were sent off to spy in an institute because the institute was owned by an evil man. The kids have to find out what the wicked person was up to before it’s too late.

I think that the book is trying to tell us that no matter what age you are, you can do a lot of important things. I also think that communicating and working well as a team is one of the main themes because there are a lot of important things that you can’t do on your own. I really enjoyed reading this book because it was very adventures. This is one of the best action and adventures books I’ve read and I can’t wait to read the sequel to it! Kayo Yotsumoto Ms.Williams

__Alex Rider-Stormbreaker__ By Anythony Horowitz Before I tell you anything about this book, a friend of mine kept bugging me to read this series. Since it was during the summer break and I had nothing to do so I told myself, “Why not try it out?” This was exactly what I did. I went to the mall and bought the first two books of the series. First of all, I must say this type of book is not what I usually would pick in the library but it’s always good to try a new genre. I didn’t expect myself to be so into “Stormbreaker.” A touch of humor and plenty of action packed moments. I guarantee you that your nose will be attached to the book by the end of the day and when you’re done with the last page, you will be out for more. Stormbreaker starts off with a teenage boy named Alex Rider whom had just been notified by the police that his uncle had died supposedly in a car accident. Secretly investigating more about his death, he realized that they have been lying to him since he discovered bullet holes in the windshields of his uncle’s car. Later on in the story, Alex was brought to his uncle’s working place and discovers that his real job was an M16 spy, not a typical normal bank worker. M16 finds Alex potential to take his uncle’s place as a spy therefore he was recruited by Britain’s top secret intelligence agency. Unwillingly, his first mission is to investigate Herod Sayle, the creator of the ‘Stormbreaker’ computers who was concerned to do with his uncle’s death. He must stop Herod Sayle and his evil plans before more innocent people die. What I find really cool about this book was to be able to read about a typical 14 year old boy who is a spy. Whenever I picture spies, I always see them as adults. It’s really awesome to relate to the character since his age is close to mine. When I picture Alex as a spy I picture myself as one, too! Reading the Alex Rider series made me more interested in mysteries. At the beginning I always thought this series were for boys and I wasn’t interested in reading them but then I realized this was not true. Everyone can read them, doesn’t matter whether you’re a boy or a girl, you can still enjoy every page of it. If you haven’t read this epic book, YOU MUST READ IT!!

Rigel: Brute Force by Andy McNab Summary: Many years ago, a cargo ship filled with enough guns and ammo to start a war, arrives at the coasts of Spain. Twenty years later, Nick Stone, ex-SAS, travels from the cities of Italy to the Villages of Africa to find a killer who's next victim is Nick himself. Review: This book is an awesome book. I liked the intense action and realism. The author wrote so well that the picture in my head was very clear and each setting was crystal clear. I now read Andy McNab books more often.

Book: the red pyramid Carter and Sadie are son and daughter of a Egyptologist, once visiting the museum, Carter's dad accidentally summons an ancient egyption god: osiris, while trying to put Osiris back into the tablet, Carter's dad got caught through the floor and disappears. So then a friend of Carter's dad teleports them into London, and that was how everything started.

fmous qoute:“That's Sadie in the background, yelling that I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.”

Alex Rider-Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz In Venice A teenage boy is tested to see how far he will go to avenge his father. Alex:Smart and Fast. Alex has gotten himself out of the craziest and deadliest situations ever encountered, and is always quick to think and fast to act. Ms.Rothman:Willing and can persuade. Ms.Rothman has helped Scorpia for a long time. She would do so much to get a single student and can always persuade them to join. The theme of this book is mainly about a child's choice. He has to choose and we will see how far he can go with it.

Like Kayo, this book was reccomended to me by a friend. He said it was an awesome book about a kid spy that has been shot at, left for dead, and been to the hospital about a million times. So I started reading the series. And I have to say, that he is actually sort of right. When I started reading Scorpia, I thought it was one of those situations again. But it wasn't.

I sort of know how it is to make a tough decision. When it was my birthday, I once invited a lot of friends to play a baseball game. When we were choosing teams, both my friends wanted to be on my team. I could only choose one person. It was a lot like Alex when he had to choose from two organizations: either Scorpia, or M16.

This is an action-packed book with tons of excitement. And if you are the type of reader that loves that, this is the type of book that you will love. It gives astonishing twists and will always keep your head buried in this book.

By Jacob Karaul

famous quote:Do not underestimate its power at the moment of the kill.

The Hunger Games Over the summer I read quite a few books but one of my favorites is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This book is set in the future after the war between the Capitol and the districts. This book is about a girl who gets chosen in reaping to participate in the Hunger Games, a T.V show in which 24 children fight to the death. Here are two characters I particularly liked during the time I was reading this book. One of them is called Haymitch; he is a drunken trainer who won the Hunger Games a few years back. His job is to train Katniss and Peeta for the Hunger Games. He is also quite funny. Another character I liked was called Gale, He is Katnisses best friend. He and Katniss are always out illegally hunting and planting traps all over the woods to get food for their families. I think theme of this book is “there’s always a chance.” I chose this book because recently I started enjoying reading books full of action and suspense. Also the blurb was very good and catchy but the thing that actually made me pick up the book and read the blurb was mostly the title and illustrations. I was just walking down the book shop when I spotted this big thick book sitting on the shelf with the words “The Hunger Games” With a splurge of illustrated blood next to it. When I saw the splurge of blood I thought, oh this must be some kind of horror book which means it must have suspense! And the title was pretty mysterious too “The Hunger Games” what did it mean…. maybe a hot dog competition. I wasn’t sure so I decided to read the blurb and as I scanned down the page I saw a sentence that said “There’s only one rule: Kill or be killed” I was sure Id get the book then because it not only had suspense but action too. The hunger games have brought so many different connections with the characters, genra, setting, which had a connection with either a movie another book or real life. Here is one of my connections. I compared the genre of suspense to flipping a coin in real life. When me and my brother or friend don’t want to have do something. Instead of arguing or just not doing it at all we flip a coin and either choose heads or tails to see which one of us will do it. Here is an example of suspense from the book: I loosen the top of the pouch and pour a few spoonfuls of poisonous berries into his palm. Then I fill my own. “On the count of three” Peeta leans down and kisses me once very gently. “The count of three” he says. We stand with our backs pressed together our empty hands locked tight. “Hold them out so everyone can see “he says. Than we begin counting.”One” Maybe I’m wrong.”Two” Maybe they don’t care if we both die. “Three!” It’s too late to change my mind I lift the berries to my mouth, taking one last look at the world. The berries have just passes my lips when… trumpets begin to blare. Now heres an example of suspense that I use in everyday life: “See that stale milk, I dare you to drink it.”I said. James stared at the milk. ‘I double dare you!” James replied. I stared at James. “Why don’t we flip a coin for it, Ill be heads and you’ll be tails.” I said. James stared back.”It’s a deal” He said. I placed the coin carefully on my thumb then flicked into the air not knowing the mysterious outcome. It spun, and then got lower. It kept on spinning. Heads, Tails, Heads, Tails. Which one will it be? It landed in my palm. We dare not look. For it was one of us who would drink the milk. I slowly opened my eyes… TAILS! I would really recommend this book to anyone who is really into lots of suspense and action. If you’ve read any of Anthony Horowitzs books you’ll love this one. However you do have to be quite patient though if you want to read this book the beginning like quite a few other books its quite boring but once you’ve got past the first two or three chapters you’ll just get hooked. This book is very exiting but the since the main character is a girl whenever it tells what she’s thinking about what she wants to wear, the problems in her life, sadness and so on. Us guys might start to get a little bored. But apart from that the books great and after almost every chapter there’s a cliff hanger for example: “For a moment everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I’m blown backwards into the air… “Then you start a new chapter. Overall this book is magnificent so I really recommend it to anybody because they’ll love it just like I did. Stefan Stanley