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This is a fast paced book that I could not put down. Before I knew it it was 5:00 am. I love how we see this young man grow. He still has the drive and curiosity but he is also a deep thinker. Alex's son Ali is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?

Ali Cross - Penguin Books UK

If you read the other two books then this is worth a rental, as in borrow from the library to save money. What makes the book interesting is you keep asking yourself as you read, why Ali, just why do you keep sneaking out the house at night knowing well your not suppose to do that.I hadn’t known him that long—only since the beginning of middle school. But we got to be friends right away. I saw him in the cafeteria one day, eating by himself and working on a pretty cool drawing. I mentioned something about it, and that’s when I found out he was a total Outpost fan, like me. Ever since then, we’d been gaming together, he’d come over to watch movies, and that kind of thing. But he never talked about himself much, and I never really asked. Now I was thinking maybe I should have. When I heard that the story was about Alex’s son, I thought it would be a Children’s story. How wrong I was! My mum has always told me that James Patterson is a fantastic author but I have never really fancied reading his books, but we ended up isolating whi...

Ali Cross by James Patterson - Penguin Books Australia Extract | Ali Cross by James Patterson - Penguin Books Australia

Ali Cross is the new series for readers 9+ by James Patterson, one of the world’s most popular authors. Like I also should have just read the prayer anyway and gotten it over with like I was supposed to. But I couldn’t. I didn’t know if this was going to help, but I figured it couldn’t hurt. How often do you get the chance to send four hundred prayers someone’s way, all at once? My voice was kind of shaky, but I just kept talking. It was crazy. I didn’t believe Dad was guilty for a second—he said it was an accident. But try telling that to the crowd following us up the street that night. The closer Dad’s trial got, the more they were dogging him with nonstop questions everywhere he went.

I shouldn’t have said that last part about doing good. Dad’s always reminding me, we have freedom of speech here, and freedom of the press, too. Just because a few reporters don’t know how to be professional, it doesn’t mean they’re all bad. They’re mostly good at their jobs. Just like cops. When Ali sees a friend get hurt, he's the best person to find out who did it. Even if he's only a kid. This was my first time reading a James Patterson novel and I really enjoyed it. Although I've never read any his Alex Cross novels, I thought writing a middle-grade mystery novel about Alex's son, Ali Cross, was such a fantastic idea. I'm definitely going to be adding some of the Alex Cross novels to my TBR.