Raven's Gate (2005)

(Pretty long description)
(Summary) This book was about a boy who got caught stealing DVDs with his friend and a guard was stabbed. He was then used in a test called the LEAF project and sent to a place called Lesser Malling close to York. He then gets involved in an epic adventure of strange towns people and roads leading nowhere. It all lead up to Raven’s Gate, facing near death, Matthew Freeman stops Raven’s Gate from reforming. He found out that he was one of the five children who had saved the world from the Old Ones and will have to do it again; he also finds that he has special powers he can almost control.

(Review) I would have to give this a 9 out of 10. This was probably the second or third best book I’ve ever read. It expressed interesting views to things such as the nuclear power plant. The reason I did not give this book a 10 out of 10 is because of some of the blood and gore that was in the book. Such as the time when Matt dreamed more or less, that Ms. Deverill had cut off the head of a snake and poured the snake blood into Matt’s mouth. I myself do not feel that this much blood and gore in a book is right for this grade level. My favorite part of the book was when Tom Burgess died, and Matt went to get the police and then Tom Burgess’s body was gone. It would be an interesting situation to be in, one minute a body somewhere and another minute its not. I’m continuing to read this series of books.