| "THE RECRUIT"
Author: Robert Muchamore
Interest Level: Upper Grades (9-12)
ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
AR Points: 11.0
Publisher Recommended Age: 12+
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 352
Book Description:
James is the latest CHERUB recruit. He and his sister were recently orphaned, and James has been in a lot of trouble. But he is brilliant in math. And CHERUB needs him. After one hundred days, the grueling training period is over. But the adventure has just begun.
Book Awards:
- UK: Red House Children's Book Award 2005
About the CHERUB Series:
The CHERUB series follows the life of a character named James Adams (formerly James Choke), a member of CHERUB, a top-secret branch of British Intelligence. The organization recruits orphan children and trains them as spies. Once they are qualified as agents, they are sent all over the world to bring down criminal organizations, their success being based on the fact that criminals are highly unlikely to suspect that their child's new school friend is hacking into their computer, planting bugs in their house and tracking every move they make.
CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. CHERUB agents hack into computers, bug entire houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these agents DO NOT EXIST.
So far Muchamore has written and published nine CHERUB novels with the next The General, due to be released in September 2008. Muchamore is planning to create in total 12 CHERUB books based around James Adams but may extend the series around another character. Only 6 CHERUB novels are currently available in the USA.
About the Author:
Robert Kilgore Muchamore (born 26 December 1972) is the English author of the teen Spy books, CHERUB series. The series is often compared to the Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz, the Jimmy Coates series by Joe Craig or the Six of Hearts series by Jack Heath. Muchamore had his first novel The Recruit published in April of 2004. He worked as a PI for thirteen years, where he gained much of the insight he used to write the series. He later left this job and began to write full time in mid-2005.
The author later admitted to fans on the official CHERUB forums that he left after a "huge row" with his boss where Muchamore threw a box of antiseptic wipes at him. Fortunately, he missed his boss and only dented the ceiling. |
