Mystery&Suspense

Point Blank Author: Antony Horowitz In this book it talks about 14 year old Alex Rider. Alex is a secret agent for M-16 and is used as their secret weapon. His mission I this book it to go undercover at a school that only accepts the sons of extremely rich and powerful men. He is to figure out if the sons of two men went to this school and if that is related to the murders of these men. But the thing that Alex doesn’t know is that Dr. Grief, the man running the school, is trying to take over the world using the students that go to his school. The book later tells us that Alex is in great danger because Dr. Grief and his assistant have discovered his plans. Alex started to take observations about the school and notices that all of the kids behave the same as one another. Alex was also told that the 3rd and 4th floors were completely off limits and he gets the idea that something is going on up there. He goes to the 3rd floor and finds an exact replica of the first floor but doesn’t go to the 4th floor because he feels that he has seen enough. On his way back down to the first and 2nd floor Dr. Grief catches him and plans to kill him. Thinking that Alex will die Dr. Grief tells Alex that 14 years ago he had made 16 clones of himself and waited for them to grow to be 14. He had plastic surgeons make them look like the student and had the clones take the students place in their family. Dr. Grief then planned to have the clones take over the family and help Dr. Grief take over the world. It goes on to tell us that Alex eventually stops Dr. Grief and his assistant from fulfilling their plans and saves the world yet again. By: Matt H.

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In the book On the Head of a Pin by Mary Beth Miller there is four main characters, one of which is Michael, Michael is a very good artist and is also the boyfriend of Helen who was killed in the beginning of the book, halfway through the book Michel is still not aware of Helen's death. Another main character in the book is Josh; Josh is very religious and after his sister Angela drowned in a pond and was paralyzed Josh made a pledge to God that he would become a priest if God spared his sisters life. Josh is also the friend of Andy and Victor Josh was at the party at the time of Helen's death. In the book Andy is kind of the show of type, Andy is the one who accidently shot Helen with his father’s rifle at the end of a party. Josh and Andy have been best friends since they were kids. The last main character of the book is Victor, Victor is the school bully he carries a knife around with him in his steel toed boots. Victor was almost killed in the end of the book when he tries to kill Josh and Andy so they wouldn’t tell that he helped bury Helen's body after she was shot. The conflict in the story is when Andy, Josh, Michael, victory, and Helen are left at Andy’s dad’s hunting cabin were the party took place. Michael and Helen are sleeping upstairs while Victor, Andy and Josh are down stairs cleaning up the mess left from the party. Andy was drunk and he went to the closet to get his dads hunting rifle so he could mess with Josh’s head when he was pointing the gun towards the staircase unaware that Helen was coming down the stair case when his finger slips and the gun goes off and Helen was shot in the stomach. Victor would not let Josh call the cops and explain that it was an accident. Victor insisted that they had to bury the body. The next morning when Michael woke up he was unaware of Helens death and got kicked out of his home the morning after Helen's death so Michael left town. The characters have to go through several things to hide what happened to Helen, Josh ended up insane and very ill because he couldn’t bare the thought of what he did and Victor threatened to kill Josh and Andy if they told. I think that people should read this book because it keeps you going and things like this actually do happen people just need to recognize it.=====