Anthony Horowitz
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
Author
Series
Magpie murders volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When she realizes that the final chapter of mystery writer Alan Conway's latest manuscript is missing and Alan later turns up dead, editor Susan Ryeland follows clues buried in the text to investigate the author's suspicious death.
4) Point blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
7) Eagle Strike
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 missiles, and the international drug trade.
8) Ark angel
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
9) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
10) Snakehead
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a celebrity divorce lawyer is found bludgeoned to death with a bottle of wine, private investigator Daniel Hawthorne is hired by the police to uncover the culprit.
12) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
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.
14) Necropolis
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Oblivion
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from Hong Kong, fifteen-year-old Matt and four other Gatekeepers take an ultimate stand against a destructive evil force that has unleashed a decimating storm as part of a plot to end the world.
16) Nightrise
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins 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.
17) Magpie murders
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A successful mystery author dies under suspicious circumstances, with his last book seemingly unfinished. This leaves two mysteries: What happened to him? And how does his latest potboiler end? The author's book editor assumes the role of detective in the case. Meanwhile the fictional sleuth in the incomplete novel's investigation parallels hers.