scorpia

Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz ISBN: 0-399-24151-5 ©2005 312 pages R.L.- Points -

Good sections to read aloud: pp. 3-5 where Scorpia is introduced

Summary: Alex Rider is back (still 14 years old)! He was told at the end of the last book that is father was an assassin for an organization known as Scorpia. He feels that he needs to get to the bottom of it, so he decides to head to Venice, Italy with a friend who is going there for vacation anyway. While there, Alex gets in loads of trouble right away, but does discover Scorpia and gets “in” with them. They tell him an entirely different story about M16 then he expected and immediately, he wants to become a part of Scorpia to get back at M16 for killing his father. What Alex doesn’t want to do is kill people, and that is what Scorpia is best known for. He thinks that he can still earn their trust and become one of them without killing. Is he correct? Not if they have their way...thousands of innocent school aged children will die if Alex doesn’t help out in some way. Read this thriller!!!

YA fiction-- survival/adventure; spies; terrorism; orphans; Italy; London; England

©Jennifer Lang - WDMS - 2005