Archive for the ‘action’ Category
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
This is a pretty fun series of books geared towards middle school students. They are actually really perfect for sixth graders, since (in California, at least) they are studying ancient cultures in history and mythology in English. So far, I’ve read the first two books in the series and am planning to make them available [...]
December 2, 2009
Tags: YA series Posted in: action, fantasy, fiction 
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The Satan Bug
Alistair MacLean’s The Satan Bug is centered about the possibility of biological warfare, or as they put it in 1962, “germ warfare”. It’s the only one of MacLean’s stories I’ve yet read that is set wholly in England itself. An extremely high-security facility for developing germ warfare has been broken into – or broken out [...]
July 26, 2007
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Alistair MacLean and The Golden Rendezvous
Alistair MacLean is woefully unappreciated as one of the best action-adventure thriller writers ever. He is a direct precursor to many other writers, Tom Clancy, Jack Higgins, and Clive Cussler being ones I’ve read; at his best, MacLean is superior. MacLean’s writing career began in the late 1950s and ran through the 1980s. A handful [...]
June 12, 2007
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