About Anthony Horowitz

Biography
Anthony Horowitz was born in Stanmore,Middlesex, England into a Jewish family.Raised in "a Jewish enclave",Horowitz lived an upper-class lifestyle.His father acted as a "fixer" for prime minister, Harold Wilson.Facing bankruptcy, Horowitz's father removed his wealth from his bank accounts and hid it away under a false name. He then died and the family was never able to track down the missing money despite years of trying. As an unhappy and overweight child, Horowitz enjoyed reading books from his father's library. At the age of eight, Horowitz was sent to the boarding school, Orley Farm in Harrow, London. There, he entertained his peers by telling them the stories he had read. Horowitz described his time in the school as "a brutal experience", often whipped by the headmaster. Horowitz adored his mother, who introduced him to Frankenstein and Dracula. From the age of eight, Horowitz knew he wanted to be a writer, realizing "the only time when I'm totally happy is when I'm writing". Horowitz now lives in North London with his wife Jill Green, whom he married in Hong Kong on 15 April 1988. Green produces " Foyle's War, the series Horowitz writes for ITV. They have two sons, Nicholas Mark (born 1989) and Cassian James (born 1991). He credits his family with much of his success in writing, as he says they help him with ideas and research.

Books he wrote
Anthony's first novel was The Sinister Secret of Frederick K Bowler but it was renamed as Enter Frederick K Bower. It was published in 1979 when Anthony was just 23. His second novel was Mishac, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet which was published in 1981 and he moved to Paris to write his third book. He then, made the first Pentagram series and the series' first book, The Devil's Door-bell was released. And then the Groosham Grange novel was released in 1988 and then the second novel, Return to Groosham Grange was out in 1999. After that, The Diamond Brothers series started with the first one, The Falcon's Malteser(1986), Public Enemy Number 2(1987), South by South East(1991), The Blurred Man(2003), The French Confection(2003), I know what you did last Wednesday(2003) and The Greek who Stole Christmas(2007) . And then there was the Alex Rider Series which started in the year 2000. In the series the novels are Stormbreaker, Point Blanc, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia, Ark Angel and Snakehead. And finally, he made the Power of Five Series( which is my most favorite series and kind of like the Pentagram series). Anthony's phenomenally successful series of books about teen superspy Alex Rider and the Power of Five have delighted children all over the world. Right now, Anthony Horowitz's forthcoming books are Crocodile Tears, Yassen and the final book, Endurance Point in the Alex Rider series and the Radius of the Lost Shark in the Diamond Brothers series. Anthony Horowitz is my favorite author because he is very creative and he writes books with action and horror too.

Alex Rider: Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz

*****
This book is the sixth book of the Alex Rider series. It is called Ark Angel. The series is all about a 14 year old boy named Alex. He is a super spy who saves the world from danger. His parents died from a plane crash and his uncle died too so he lives with his housekeeper named Jack Starbright. In the sixth book, Alex was in the hospital because he got shot by a sniper( who works for Scorpia, a group of terrorists and Alex's number one enemy) between the shoulder and the ribcage and he had to stay there for a week . But then at midnight, a group of gangsters called Force Three come in the hospital and kidnap a Russian boy named Paul Drevin( who was next door of Alex's room and the son of a billionaire, Nikolei Drevin). Unfortunately, they got Alex instead because he switched the room numbers around. Alex fought them back with medical equipment like the medicine ball and a defibrillator( those electric pads in the movies)he knocked out all of them except the driver so Alex was knocked out. After that, he was lead to the leader of the gang( who had tattoos all over his face). Somehow, Alex was in a middle of a war between Paul's father and the gang but they were teaming up because Force Three tried to kidnap Paul because his father didn't like him as a son and Nikolei is trying to bomb Ark Angel, a space hotel and his latest creation yet. My favorite part was when Alex fought the gangsters with the hospital equipment.I like this book because it has a lot of action and suspense. I like to recommend it to those people who like books with action and super spies because this is the perfect book.

The Taiwan flood caused by Morakot, the worst typhoon in 50 years

Typhoon Morakot has caused massive damage in Chiayi City of Taiwan and it killed more than 500 people from mud slides and the flood. As you can see, this is a girl who was rescued. She looks like as if she was a victim of a mudslide. Typhoon Morakot rained 2 and a 1/2 meters of water every two days in Taiwan. Since Taiwan has a lot of mountains, the flood rose up instead of spreading out. After that, it rained on the mountains while passing through the ground and its rock . Once the water passes through the ground and rock, both of them become slippery and then it creates a mudslide which kills or bury the people on the bottom of the mountain alive. The reason why Taiwan gets a lot of typhoons is because it's not near the equator like Indonesia and Papua New Guinea or maybe it's because of Global Warming and also, it makes the people sad because some or all of their family relatives died from the typhoon. It also destroyed a major hotel and if Taiwan wasn't mountainous, there would be less deaths.

Hello!!!!!! My name is Rgee( it kind of sounds like R-G not Riggee or something like that).I'm from the Philippines but I'm in Indonesia. Right now, I am in Middle school typing. I like Middle school because it has many food choices and you have lots of things to do there. : D