num_pages: 236
description: When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down.Within days he's gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises; then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission. But Alex soon finds himself in mortal danger. It looks as if his first assignment may well be his last...
language: English
title: Stormbreaker
titlecomplete: Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1)
characters: Herod Sayle, Mrs Jones, Alan Blunt, Jack Starbright, Ian Rider, Alex Rider, Smithers
genres: Fiction, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Teen, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Espionage
ratings_count: 99747
places: London, England
series: Alex Rider
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Junior Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Iowa Teen Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Walker Books Ltd