Alex Rider recommended by nephew and doting aunt

Recommendations from a doting aunt:
I have a wonderful, wonderful teen nephew who loves to read and play soccer -- he's not really interested in being a good student though. When he really likes something he has read, he shares it with his old aunt and suggests she reads it too. In the absence of any new Harry Potters or Eragon books, he turned to Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series. I read Scorpia and really enjoyed it. It is not the first in the series, but it didn't matter. Alex is a teen spy. Sometimes, he's not sure if he's working for the good guys or the bad guys. He has only one friend who knows what he does -- his schoolmates just think he misses a lot of school. Scorpia is an international terrorist group -- maybe even the ones who killed his father. As he infiltrates the group, he experiences many dangers -- an attack from an albino tiger, being "disposed of" in the sewers of Venice, parasailing into the terrorist compound, hanging from a hot air balloon to stop a satellite from detonating a powerful explosion to wipe out London, and more. I was almost as exhausted after reading this book as I was after seeing my first Indiana Jones movie 25 years ago in my previous life as a much younger librarian. AW

* editor's note: adults may post on the teen site if recommending teen books. Our director Anniesse Williams has a pipeline to teen books courtesy of her nephew Matthew...adults and teens sharing reading joy is a wonderful thing. Share the joy of a book you like with someone today!