![]() The brother of the girl he has hurt comes over and beats James up. So James has every tech toy known to man and there's a lot of money in the safe. ![]() He goes home thinking he'd better confess what happened to his mother, who, we learn, is the leader of a group of thieves. When people start talking assault charges, James leaves campus. ![]() James is always getting in trouble in school, and this time it's a doozy: he shoves a girl who insults his mother and she ends up cutting her face on a nail protruding from the wall. In fact, in some ways, I like this series better-and your son or daughter might, too.Īs our series begins, James and his sister Lauren live in a rough neighborhood with their obese, alcoholic mother and her jerk of a sort of ex-husband Ron (who is Lauren's father). ![]() Why? Because this is the only kid spy/adventure series that can hold its own against the Alex Rider books. ![]() I was perusing the new YA books in my local bookstore when I noticed a shiny new hardcover edition of Robert Muchamore's The Recruit and had to smile: I've read eight of the books in the Cherub series and ordered the last two books from England before they came out in paperback in the U.S. ![]()
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