Cherub The Recruit - Robert Muchamore

Advantages: A really well written book for kids
Disadvantages: Only for older readers

...is the first in the Cherub series and was published in 2004, to date he has written 10 Cherub books with the 11th to be released in September. WHAT ARE CHERUBS? Cherubs are basically a national secret; they are children who are trained to be spies. This started in World War 2 when a British spy called Charles Henderson worked in France helping the resistance; he saw how they used children and teenagers to work as messengers and scouts. When he ...
...1946 but his creation thrived, CHERUB has grown to over 200 agents all under 17 they have the best education and technical support. CHERUB agents are hand picked and are orphans who are offered this amazing opportunity they live on a huge campus with the best education including all the normal school stuff but also martial arts, weapons training, physical training and a whole lot more but the reason for their success remains the same even after all ... Read review

Advantages: Punchy, original and fun!
Disadvantages: The book ends eventually

...is the author of the cherub books. He was born in Islington on Boxing Day 1972. For more information on the author follow the links below. ~~~What is The Recruit about?~~~ The Recuit is about a secret organisation called Cherub. This organisation recruits children to work for them . This book is about a boy called James and his younger sister Lauren. At the beginning we learn about James and Lauren and their family. However unfortunately James ...
...return they live on the Cherub Campus which is MOD owned land hidden in the British countryside. Children under the age of 10 also live on the campus and have a small amount of training but they can not go on missions until they have done the 100 day basic training and the age of 10. ~~~Characters~~~ James Adams ---------------- Originally James Choke before joining Cherub. The Cherub books are focused on James Adams who is the main character. ... Read review

Advantages: great fast moving story line
Disadvantages: too addictive.

...using adults they used Children. Cherub has been an active organisation since that point and is one of the most succesful government secret organisations. The story: James is like any normal child he goes to school lives with his mum and sister on an estate in london. James however is an incredible gifted mathmatician. When his mum dies from a drug overdose James is put into foster care for a while after a run in, with a difficult group of children ...
...and what is happening. Cherub is so brilliant as all of the charectors in the book have to experience the ame problmes that any other child of that age woudl have to deal with at that point in their life. A brilliant story and after reading one I wished I hadnt just read but I had lived. ... Read review

Advantages: Great book . Very realistic. more realistic than Alex Rider
Disadvantages: NONE

...broken legs. That is until CHERUB comes into the picture. What's the storyline? The story line follows the adventures of a young teenager called James Choke and his connections with a government agency called CHERUB who recruit teenagers from ages 12 to 17 to act as spies. We hear about James's feelings, strains and pains though CHERUB'S grueling 100 day training course and eventually his first mission. But this book isn't solely crammed with line ...
...to stray into the usually unchartered awkwardness of a teenager's love life and the complex system of friendship. An overall fantastic read How's it written? The book was written with the energy of an excitable young child at a party fueled by too much ice cream and coca cola inside it, it's fast, witty, laugh out loud funny, intelligent (this may not apply to the child) , sometimes in your face but overall a non stop rollercoaster of peaks and ... Read review

Advantages: Intresting, Amazing story line and realistic characters
Disadvantages: None!

...read. In fact the whole Cherub series are great. Before I read The Recruit I use to hate reading because I always loose intrest in the first chapter, but after reading the first page of the The Recruit I got "addicted" to the book, and then carried on the reading the whole Cherub series. I think the book is so good because its realistic. We could all see this happening and that is why its such a brilliant book. Its has emense detail and of course ...
...I would reconmend the Cherub series to anyone. Espeacily the people who find it difficuit to pick up a book and finish it. What is it about? Meet James & the gang for the first time. CHERUB: The Recruit tells James Adams' story from the day his mother dies. Read about his transformation from a couch potato into a skilled CHERUB agent. Meet Lauren, Kyle, Kerry and the rest of the cherubs for the first time and learn how James foiled the biggest ... Read review