Comparison: The Recruit And Over The Edge

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Austin Warner Mrs. Willick ENG 3D1 January 7, 2010 It makes a difference Kids may be young, but they can definitely make a big difference in the world. Especially in the books The Recruit, by Robert Muchamore, and Over the Edge, by Norah McClintock. Death, or murder, can have a big impact on a child’s life, and how they make their decisions for the rest of their life. Although both of the main characters in these books are kids, it is up to them to put the criminals in bars. They both can prove that even a kid can do things that some adults could not even do. In the book The Recruit, the main character’s name is James, who is a trouble young boy who lives in England. James is a troubled young lad, who does a lot of stupid things from…show more content…
James hated this, because Ron is a terrible father, and even thought him and Lauren didn’t act like they liked each other, James loved her, and didn’t want to be apart from her. While in the foster home, James gets mixed up with a group of bad people, who make him go steal beer, but hold the door shut when James tries to run out. James ends up getting caught, and getting in trouble with the law. Sometime later, James just woke up, in a strange place. He had no clue where he was, and how he had got there. As James tried to navigate his way around this strange place, he kept getting the same response every time he tried to talk to someone, or find out where he was “Can’t talk to orange” (Muchamore, 64). Even though people weren’t saying anything, they were pointing in the directions he was supposed to go. So James made his way to Dr. McAfferty’s office, where he learned he was at a top secret organization place, called CHERUB, where there were a lot of children spies, because what criminal is going to suspect that a little kid is a secret…show more content…
Her step-dad is the town’s chief of police, which means that she knows more than average about how those type of things work. She starts talking to a guy on the school’s football team that she has a crush on. The football player, named Thomas, starts to like Chloe, so Chloe starts hanging out with Thomas’ friends, Lise, Daria, and Matt. She discovers how they could have potential motive for killing Peter, because Matt burned down a subdivision, Lise broke up her parents, and Daria stole her dead sister’s poems, and Peter found out, and blackmailed them all. As the book goes on, she finds out evidence that could link Thomas to also being the murderer. To throw Chloe off of his trail, Thomas tells Chloe that he saw Lise running away from the scene of the crime the night of the murder. Chloe finds out about how this other young man named Adam, who had died the year before after falling through the lake ice, and drowning. So Chloe puts together all of the evidence, and discovers that Thomas had been with Matt at the time, and just ran away as Adam drowned, and Peter had evidence that Thomas was there. So the story unfolds, and Chloe discovers that Thomas “Scared Peter, and he fell off the edge of the cliff.” (McClintock,
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