Nightrise
Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
12-15 years |
| Reading Age |
12-15 years |
| NBS Text |
Young Adult Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
Young adult |
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| Number of Pages |
Not specified |
| Dimensions |
Not specified |
| Weight |
Not specified - defaults to 400g |
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| Dewey Code |
Not specified |
| Catalogue Code |
57585 |
Description of this Book
Nevada, USA - fourteen-year-old twins Jamie and Scott Tyler are performing a mind-reading act in a dingy theatre. But when a sinister multinational corporation, Nightrise, kidnaps Scott, Jamie is left alone - and wanted for murder. He becomes embroiled in a corrupt presidential campaign and breaks into the American prison system before being propelled ten thousand years into the past, where he encounters the other Gatekeepers and witnesses the creation of Raven's Gate - and the first fateful battle against the Old Ones.
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Awards & Reviews
| US Review |
In this third of the Gatekeepers series, Horowitz ups the ante considerably when he brings the third and fourth of The Five into the story. Identical twins Scott and Jamie, abandoned in a cave sacred to the Washoe Indians, have bounced from foster home to institution and are headed for much, much worse. A preemptive strike by the evil Nightrise Corporation makes Scott a captive and leaves Jamie, the less effective of the mind-reading twins, to make the rescue. Time travel, visits to a dream universe and mind control add a fascinating occult element to this thriller. Horowitz truly knows his way around a plot; he keeps the tension at a nail-biting level throughout and makes the apocalyptic situation clear without getting bogged down in description of the two previous books. Characters exist to drive this plot - with the twins and a couple of others well-developed and the rest edging into stereotype. The smashing climax is totally satisfying while anticipating the world-saving to come. Stock up - it should fly off the shelves! (Fiction. YA) (Kirkus Reviews) |
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Author's Bio
Anthony Horowitz is the creator of the phenomenal Alex Rider series, which has sold over nine million copies worldwide. He won the 2005 British Book Awards Red House Children's Book of the Year Award for Ark Angel and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. Anthony also writes extensively for film and TV, with credits including Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War and the Stormbreaker movie. He lives in north London with his family.
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