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                        March Author of the Month

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    After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is concerned to continue his uncles dangerous work for Britian's intelligence agency, M16

 

 

   Alex, a fourteen-year-old spy, has been assigned by the British MI6 to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. He ends up in a boarding school in the Swiss Alps, and finds many strange things are happening to the students.

 

   Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov

 

    After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray, whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missles, and the international drug trade.

 

   After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.

 

 

    Rider has decided to give up being a teenage secret agent--it is just too dangerous. He wants his old life back. But the he saves the life of Paul Drevin, son multi billionaire Nicolei Drevin, and once again he is pulled back into M15, the British Secret Service.

 

 

   Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle

 

   Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen year old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca lines.

 

 

Snakehead (Alex Rider)   While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.

 

 

Nightrise (Power of Five)   As fourteen-year-old twin telepaths struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.

 

 

 

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Crocodile Tears    Alex Rider's desire to return to life as a normal high school student must be put aside when he is asked to face his greatest adversary yet, a con man who plans to use genetically modified wheat to release a deadly virus that will kill millions of innocent people.

 

 

 

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Necropolis      To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.