Skeleton Key
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Chapter Book · Ages 12–15 · 2006 · Est. 6.5 hour read

Skeleton Key

By Anthony Horowitz

Book #3 in the Alex Rider series

Teen spy Alex Rider must thwart a nuclear threat from a vengeful adversary.

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327 pages· 67,344 words· Est. 6.5 hour read
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Teen superspy Alex Rider faces his deadliest mission yet. A man with nothing to lose and a nuclear weapon threatens global chaos. From Miami's beaches to Russia's icy fields, Alex teams up with the CIA to stop a vengeful plot. Can he save the world once more, or will this mission be his last?

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Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series! Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who’s saving the world one mission at a time–from #1 New York Times bestselling author! Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He’s been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first… Uniting forces with America’s own CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia. From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty.

Awards

FCBG Children’s Book Award (2003)
At a glance
Format
Pages
327
Words
67,344
Reading age
12–15
Audience
Young Adult
Lexile
630L
Themes & topics
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.9
F&P level
~O
AR points
10
AR interest level
MG+
AR quiz
69602
Publication
Published
February 16, 2006
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780142406144

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