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__Raven’s Gate__ by Anthony Horowitz **(#1 in Gatekeepers series)** ISBN: 0-439-84329-4 c2005 265 pages

Good sections to read aloud: pp. 27-29 where they introduce Matt to the LEAF project in place of prison for his involvement in a crime

Summary: Matt Freeman is a juvenile delinquent who is living with a step-aunt when we first meet him. His parents were both killed in a car accident when he was eight years old, and she was the only person that agreed to take him in. He hates life with her and her boyfriend, but has no other options. Because of his attitude towards life in general, he hooks up with a boy from down the street and begins shoplifting and other petty crimes. Finally he is caught and sent away to live with an older lady through the LEAF program. Matt knows there is something very unusual about Lesser Malling, the village he is living in, but he has no idea how strange it is until it’s too late. Read this first book in a new series by Anthony Horowitz!

YA fiction--science fiction; supernatural powers; juvenile delinquents; death; witchcraft

© Jennifer Lang - WDMS - 2006