Scholastic CHERUB #1: The Recruit
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Price: £7.20
Brand: Scholastic
Description: CHERUB is the secret training ground for young MI5 spies. CHERUB agents slip under adult radar to get intelligence which sends criminals and terrorists to jail. When tough kid James is recruited by CHERUB, he's grateful. Now he's away from the Children's Home, and from trouble with the police. He thinks CHERUB has saved his life. But for how long? The first book in a pulse-racing series. #hunger-games-rr #top-100-201718-11 #top 100age 11plus #top 100-all #top 100-all 1718 #top 100age 11to 13plus #summer-18 #sum-18. Scholastic CHERUB #1: The Recruit - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 1292
ISBN: 9780340881538
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Author: quinton
Rating: 5
Review: Bought for my brother as I read them year ago. Read it again and still as amazing as the first time around. The story is just captivating
Author: H J Mac
Rating: 4
Review: This is such a refreshing series of books. To be honest I wouldn't recommend it for people who are looking for comfort reading or cosiness. It's more akin to J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy if written for young people, rather than Harry Potter. I love a comfort read as much as the next person, but I really enjoyed these books. This one introduces us to the main character, James, who has got a pretty grim life, with very few prospects. The only things he has that are entirely positive are his sister, and his intelligence. Both which will prove to be the things he really needs. These books deal with a very rough and unprotected sub set of children. Most parents would feel very upset to think their children would ever have to grow up so fast. At 12 years old these kids are facing dangers most of us would never imagine, and they aren't mollycoddled, not at all. In fact there is very little caring and love ever shown towards them, and they look for it in each other. They start having relationships by the age of 12, which for most of us feels very underage, and a shame as we want kids to be kids, and this isn't an option for the CHERUB kids. They've been abandoned or abused already by parents, and society, and are now thrown into a world that is infinitely better for them in some ways, but incredibly harsh and brutal in others. Somehow I can't imagine social services approving of the way they are treated. I had particular difficulty with one of their trainers at the spy school, he is a nasty cruel bully, and I kept finding it difficult to accept that sort of behaviour would be accepted by a school. Think Snape and Umbridge only much worse. Still the books are a lively read, I really enjoyed them, and loved the way the author just presents the world they are in, without judging it, and from the POV of characters who have had their attitudes and thoughts already pretty messed up.
