Stormbreaker [electronic resource]
Horowitz, Anthony2009
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When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission to Cornwall, where Middle-Eastern multi-billionaire Herod Sayle is producing his state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers. Sayle has offered to give one free to every school in the country – but there's more to the gift than meets the eye.
Main title:
Stormbreaker [electronic resource] / Anthony Horowitz
Author:
Horowitz, Anthony, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Walker Books Ltd, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Alex Rider
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Reading grade level: 3-4
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Born in north London, Anthony says, "I think I knew with certainty that I wanted to be a writer around eight." For birthdays, he asked for books, pens and a typewriter. His schooldays were not especially happy, more like something "out of Dickens or Dahl", and one reason he began writing books for young people was "to make up for the shortcomings of my childhood". Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony's scripts, including the drama serial Foyle's War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing! Anthony's first novel was Enter Frederick K. Bower, published in 1979 when Anthony was just 23. He has since written many more and is also a prolific writer for television, film and theatre. He created Foyle's War and the popular series Midsomer Murders and has also worked on Agatha Christie's Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. His play, Mindgame, was produced in the West End and he has also written an adult novel, The Killing Joke. Anthony's phenomenally successful series of books about teen superspy Alex Rider has delighted children all over the world, and in 2003, Anthony was delighted to win the Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key as it was voted for entirely by children. He has since received numerous awards for the Alex Rider series including the Bookseller Association/Nielsen Author of the Year Award 2007 and Children's Book of the Year Award for Ark Angel at the 2006 Children's Book Award. Stormbreaker, the first Alex Rider mission, was recently made into a blockbuster movie. Anthony's supernatural series, The Power of Five, which begins with Raven's Gate, Evil Star and Nightrise was inspired by a simple thought: "Would it be possible to write something like Lord of the Rings - but to set it here, now, in the real world" says Anthony. "Isn't it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?" The fourth in the series, Necropolis, was published last year.
ISBN:
9781406326260
Language:
English
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BRN:
2754262
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