Category Archive: Adventure thriller

Apr 07

Code of Silence by Tim Shoemaker

Living a Lie Comes With a Price. This thriller is book with a moral, but it didn’t feel preachy to me, just real. Three teens–Cooper, Hiro, and Gordy—witness a robbery and attempted murder. Because Cooper and his family are threatened by the robbers and because they have reason to believe that at least one of …

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Jan 31

Two Thrillers with Punch and Pride

The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney. Exciting, plot-driven young adult fiction with little or no sex or gory violence. Why can’t it all be written so well and so cleanly? Laura and Billy are American ex-pats living in London with their working-in-the-UK parents and having the time of their young lives. Eleven year old Billy, …

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