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BfK No. 142 - September 2003

Cover Story
This issue's cover illustration is from David Almond's The Fire Eaters. Cover photograph is by Getty Images. David Almond is interviewed by Peter Hollindale. Thanks to Hodder Children's Books for their help with this September cover.

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Shark Attack

Anthony Masters
(Orchard Books)
192pp, 978-1841219066, RRP £4.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
Predator
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Hunted

Anthony Masters
(Orchard Books)
192pp, 978-1841219042, RRP £4.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
Predator
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Readers will need nerves of steel - and occasionally a strong stomach - to properly enjoy these two novels in Masters' 'Predator' series.

This is 21st-century boys-own stuff-traditional adventure stories with a plot structure that owes much to the computer game: the storylines rocket from one episode of life or death drama - plane crash to avalanche to wolf attack, storm to shipwreck to shark attack - at a breakneck speed. Gratuitous extras such as description are kept to a minimum though there are satisfying elements of character development: boy and the step-father he once despised develop understanding and affection for one another in the face of extreme danger; two cousins learn new respect for each other as they battle alone through the wilderness. The sharks in Shark Attack are the one dimensional Jaws-style killers; there's a little more interesting information about wolves in Hunted.

But if boys want non-stop action, liberal amounts of blood and gore, and some unambiguous male bonding, then they couldn't ask for more than they get here.

Reviewer: 
Andrea Reece
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