Books Book of the Week The Recruit by Robert Muchamore
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| Thursday, 14 January 2010 09:47 | |||
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A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police, but her children bring their mates home. She doesn't know that a kid has bugged her house. The kid works for CHERUB. CHERUB kids slip under adult radar and get information that sends criminals to jail. This was the book that introduced the world to the shady world that is the Cherub Campus. Its the one where James is recruited from his care home to work as a spy for the British Secret Service. Its the starting place for a journey that will see James and his friends tackle many dangerous characters. Don't read this book if you don't want to get hooked on the entire series
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This weeks recommended read is The Recruit by Robert Muchamore
"if a child can read, they can think,
if a child can think they are free"
Siobhan Dowd (1960-2007)
Carnegie Medal 2009
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It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems like the perfect summer. But their lives are about to explode. Falling in love is just the start of it. War breaks out - a war none of them understands, or really cares about, until it lands on their doorstep. The family is separated. The perfect summer is blown apart. Daisy's life is changed forever - and the world is too.
