This series is one of my favorites, and the first book is still the best in my mind. Make sure you supply me with a general synopsis as well. We dont offer free books or free paper samples but you can view our paper and book customization options by doing one of the following. When you buy a swatch kit, your confirmation email will include a discount code equal in value to the price of the kit to use on your next. The age group reflects readability and it doesnt necessarily reflect content appropriateness. But alex rider knows thats a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Full of action, suspense, thrillaminute adventure, gadgets, and a massively competent kid who saves the world through brains, guts, and martial arts, it keeps young readers enthralled. Alex rider wakes in the middle of the night to hear the police knocking on the door.
Youll see how precisely that description follows our template. The key with fiction is to excite and engage your reader. How to write a blurb definition, examples, and more. In this book alex is sent by a british spy agency called m16, to find out why his uncle was killed. A book blurb is the marketing text found on the back cover of a physical copy and in the book description found in online bookstores. The housekeeper, alexs good friend jack starbright, opens the door to learn that alexs uncle, ian rider, has been killed in a car accident. The book was released in the united kingdom on the 4th of september 2000, and in united states release on 21st of may 2001, where it became a new york times bestseller. Then the jason steed seriesmore stormbreaker is the best, they get good up book 3, skeleton key. Typically, there are 515 questions per chapter, act or section.
Since its release, the book has sold more than nine million copies worldwide. Stormbreaker by anthony horowitz january 4 2009 1 december 1 friday, february 5, 2010. Take a closer look at all the paper options from blurb and pick your favourite. When mi6 recognizes his potential, alex rider is armed with secret gadgets and sent on his first mission. Id forgotten, actually, that mark had plugged the dead house when i extracted his description above but hes a damn nice guy, with excellent taste. The author depicts this by the mention of different settings including m16, port tallon and sayles enterprises. Its like a james bond book with a teenager as the protagonist. Copyright page samples you can copy and paste into your book. Keep in mind at all times the blurb is what sells the book, so.
Samples of a long page and a short page are provided so readers can copy and paste them into their own book files, ready for customization. How to write the perfect blurb examples, formula, opening. The book is about a 14 year old boy, alex rider, who is puzzled by the mysterious death of his uncle ian rider. Stormbreaker by anthony horowitz my latest book is the first book of the alex rider series, stormbreaker. The main characters of this young adult, adventure story are alex rider, alan blunt. Think about your favorite blurbs and what about them draws you in. Its safe to say that a wellwritten blurb is absolutely essential to your poetry books overall success and reputation. This thriller pits 14yearold alex rider against a mad billionaire industrialist. Basically, the name of the game with a blurb is to entice readers to buy your book. Use these questions for quizzes, homework assignments or tests. Purchase a swatch kit that contains samples of all the different blurb papers with photos and text printed on them. I definitely would recommend this book to any child or perhaps adult, it is very plot twisting and you never see things coming.
Grin comes by and leads alex to a more modern, hightech part of the facility. While an interesting premise, and not badly executed, the plot really left something to be desired in terms of believable details. This paper is a summary of the novel stormbreaker by anthony horowitz. Meet alex rider, an average british teenager whose life is about to seriously change. How to create a back book cover blurb that sells i just published a guest post which goes into this with some examples. Investigating a shadowy individual who is supplying suspicious computers to schools, our young hero embarks on his first top secret mission.
Sell your book in the blurb bookstore, through amazon, or in the global retail network of over 38,000 retailers, libraries, and schools. Stu stormbreaker is the best, they get good up book 3, skeleton key. This book required the sort of willing suspension of disbelief that i do not naturally possess. Stormbreaker butthisisalsolucky ithink forme iwanttoknowwhatyouthinkofit iwantyou. The book stormbreaker is 240 pages long and is about a boy named alex rider.
Print as you go sell one copy at a time and let blurb fulfill the orders or place a large order and sell inperson. Sep 04, 2000 this book is about a boy named alex rider, who has been a regular boy all his life until he is called by m16, the british secret service, to be on a secret mission to investigate a computer called the stormbreaker. But when fourteenyearold alex finds his uncles windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. To his surprise, alex loves stormbreakerit might not make schoolwork fun, but it certainly made it lively 8. Stormbreaker chapter 9, night visitors, and chapter 10. Alex is confused by the police office claims, had your uncle worn a seatbelt, he would have had a chance to survive. Also alex gets to use lots of cool gadgets such as a computer, bomb and radio all hidden in a gameboy. I have about 60 pages left of the book, and i totally understand why many of my middle school students are into this particular series. All you have to do is provide me with some information and i will write one undeniably catchy blurb. The plot starts out with alex, the main character, finding out his uncle whom he is lives with, has died. Its briefno more than 100150 wordsand creates interest in the story without giving away major spoilers or the ending. At the beginning of stormbreaker, alex rider wakes up to voices from. Aug 08, 2009 examples of blurbs to share in your primary classroom. The seventh installment of anthony horowitzs, alex rider series, snakehead was an amazing book to read and had me wanting to read more and more.
Stormbreaker is a novel written by british author anthony horowitz. The first edition of the novel was published in january 1st 2000, and was written by anthony horowitz. In the first book in the number one bestselling alex rider series by anthony horowitz, fourteenyearold alex is forcibly recruited into mi6. A blurb is the description of the story found on the back cover of a book. How to write a book blurb in 4 steps the opening of your blurb has to be incredibly precise and dynamic, says editor rebecca heyman for a lot of firsttime authors, i think theres an instinct to make sure readers understand everything that happened in the book s universe before the beginning of the actual story. Stormbreaker is a young adult actionadventure book written by british author anthony horowitz, and is the first novel in the alex rider series. Pdf stormbreaker book by anthony horowitz free download. The intention is the same as a book blurb to pique the potential bossclients attention.
Stormbreaker 2004 read online free book by anthony horowitz. Examples of blurbs to share in your primary classroom. A harsh, german woman named nadia vole brings him into an isolated room, where hell get to spend the day playing with stormbreaker. This quiz will test your knowledge of the book stormbreaker by anthony horowitz. This actionadventure book is the first book in alex rider series. Imagine james bond as a kid and thats alex rider, his parents are dead.
See more ideas about alex rider, alex rider books and cover. Alex begins as an innocent boy shocked by the death of his uncle ian in a traffic accident. The book starts at ian riders alexs uncle funeral because he died in a car crash. May 01, 2001 what if james bond had started spying as a teenager. If i were the main character, i would be l very afraid to do the missions because the missions always in dangerous places with bad people and related to the death. The questions are broken out into sections, so they focus on specific chapters within stormbreaker. Alex finds a book about the local dozmary mine, which contains an old blackandwhite map that fits the one that ian had made. Stormbreaker is an exciting, suspenseful novel that jumpstarts the career of a highly unusual spy.
Alex rider is a 14yearold schoolboy who lives with his uncle ian and their housekeeper jack starbright. Grin, an excircus knife catcher, and yassen gregorovich, professional hit man. Stormbreaker was an international coproduction between companies and financiers from the united kingdom, the united states, and germany. The blurb is a promotional description, found on the back of the book. Forcibly recruited into mi6, alex has to take part in grueling sas training exercises.
The hook delivers a sense of emotion chilling, atmospheric and gripping, and a proof of quality heres top author mark edwards bigging the book up. Comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative reading response activities and projects, tests, and much more. The plot, characters, and setting all meshed to make for a fantastic story. Stormbreaker by anthony horowitz overdrive rakuten. What he doesnt know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a topsecret mission. It is a little different to the movie, i think better, but the actor who played alex rider also called alex in real life was very good and he is how i imagine alex when i read the rest of the series. In this book the protagonist, alex rider, a british teenager that is a specially trained spy goes on another adventure. A master of the spy thriller, anthony is the only writer authorized by. Everything starts when alexs uncle and caretaker, ian rider, is killed in a car accident. Stormbreaker is everything that a spy novel should be. When alex enters sayles compound in port tallon, he discovers a strange world of secrets and villains including mr. The reading comprehension has questions which focus on a range of reading skills.
Dont get us wrongalex rider takes on his fair share of big baddies and evil henchmen over the course of the novel. There is a great deal of standard trope here, with pretty much the entire plot forecast from the beginning. Talking about the most interesting and the most amazing books, you are going to find a good number of such books, but the one we are talking here is all the way up. Apr 24, 2012 stormbreaker is written by anthony horowitz, the author of the power of five and many other books. The book was published by the speak books which is an imprint of penguin group. When you hear about authors being asked to blurb a book, its this endorsement theyve been asked to provide. His works include the alex rider series, sherlock holmes and james bond novels and foyles war for television. For example, when alex discovers the secret of the stormbreaker, he gets. Alex rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. Below given is a custom written proofread summary sample of this young adult book. Free download or read online stormbreaker pdf epub book.
After the death of his uncle, the 14yearold schoolboy alex rider is forced by the special operations division of the uks secret intelligence service, mi6, into a mission which will save millions of lives. Free alex rider stormbreaker study unit worksheets for teachers to print. For what it means to be it is very well done, and is especially good for reluctant readers. The novel provides bang after bang as alex experiences and survives unbelievably dangerous episodes and. May 21, 2017 this is a reading comprehension booklet for anthony horowitzs stormbreaker book.
The setting of the novel takes place in the present day london, england. If youd like for me to read the entire book instead of just. Then the jason steed series came out which is as good. Stormbreaker reading comprehension teaching resources. Alex rider will soon be a star in his very own tv series. But the teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal danger. Dec 01, 2015 s tormbreaker is the very first novel in the alex rider series, a collection of books that left the imagination of my ten year old wannabespy self reeling for hours. Now available as a special 20th anniversary edition, featuring an exclusive chapter from alexs new mission, nightshade.
Stormbreaker is basically an action movie in book formdo we really have to convince you to read this one but that said, youre going to get a lot more than just killer action scenes and crazy villains from stormbreaker. Getting a feel for different types of blurbs can give you inspiration to write yours. Jun 17, 2009 this video is a summary of the book and clips from the actual movie. Anthony horowitz is a worldrenowned screenwriter for film and television, having received multiple awards. But, if you have caught a potential readers attention, the blurb is what will sell your book and convert readers. Block a, where we are now, is administration and recreation. This video is not affiliated or sponsored by blurb, just for helping you decide what paper to choose for your book. Jul 25, 2006 they said his uncle ian died in a car accident.
The book blurb presents the book as a solveall book with the expertise and tools to guarantee you success. Free alex rider stormbreaker worksheets and literature unit. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate herod sayle, a man who is offering stateoftheart stormbreaker computers to every school in the country. What he doesnt know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a.
Block d is where the main stormbreaker assembly line is found. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 256 pages and is available in paperback format. Stormbreaker is an actionpacked adventure about a 14 years old spy named alex. It makes the idea of a 14yearold mi6 spy very believable along with the impossible scrapes he. In stormbreaker, these gadgets are hidden inside everyday objects that a boy of alexs age might carry 6.
Stormbreaker was written for children aged 12 years and above. Nonstop action keeps the intrigue boiling as alex tries to stop the remarkably evil herod sayles from murdering britains schoolchildren through biological warfare. Good, tight writing, that keeps the plot going in a steady pace. When writing a novel, there are few selling tools as important as a solidly written book blurb. He is drawn into a world of secrets and spies, dangerous missions, and death. If you havent read the whole book, this may spoil the book for you. They get a bit of thesame thing for the next 4 book. Create, print, and sell professionalquality photo books blurb. It uses twilight as an example, but dont hold that against me. Set preferences and get ageappropriate recommendations with common sense media plus. Blurb distinct from the back book cover blurb is this 12 line endorsement of a book by a celebrity or another author that sits on the book s front cover. The films plot follows a teenage boy who is recruited by mi6 after his uncle, a secret agent, is killed in action. The book that introduced teen superspy alex rider to millions of enthralled fans, stormbreaker is an unstoppable juggernaut of highoctane thrills, action setpieces and wiretaut narrative tension. This book is full of good guys, bad guys, and of course, its full of suspense, adventure, and action.