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Overview
This chilling NYT bestseller from Anthony Horowitz, "a master of edge-of-your-seat writing" (Booklist, starred) is "an exhilarating read" (Kirkus) that "should attract a strong following" (PW) As punishment for a crime he didn't really commit, Matt was given a choice: go to jail or go live with an old woman named Mrs. Deverill in a remote town called Lesser Malling. He should have chosen jail. A strange and sinister plan is coming together made in Lesser Malling, with Matt at the center of it all. People who try to help him disappear . . . or die. It all ties to an evil place named Raven's Gate - a place whose destiny is horrifyingly intertwined with Matt's own.

Editorial Reviews
Publishers Weekly Horowitz (the Alex Rider series) unveils a thoroughly creepy new tale with this first entry in the Gatekeepers series. The novel opens as 14-year-old Matt Freeman reluctantly helps an older friend break into a warehouse. A frequent truant (he has lived with his aunt since his parents were killed in a car accident), Matt's problems grow exponentially worse when he finds himself charged as an accessory to assault after his friend stabs a security guard during the failed burglary. Matt is offered a chance to participate in the LEAF Program (Liberty and Education Achieved Through Fostering),

which sends troubled youths to rural settings where "there are fewer temptations." In the custody of severe, stern Mrs. Deverill, Matt must clean the pigsty among other chores. But his tasks pale compared to the gathering threat in the village of Lesser Malling. Though he tries to escape, Matt finds his attempts thwarted by unseen forces, and he soon realizes that his presence in Lesser Malling is no accident. Among Mrs. Deverill's belongings he makes a chilling discovery: "The photograph was black-and-white, taken with a telephoto lens.... With a sense of horror and sickness, he realized he was looking at a picture of himself. This was his parents' funeral. Six years ago." Sinister magic melds with modern technology, and Matt's few allies are killed off one by one. Horowitz's talent for building suspense is as strong as ever, and this unnatural tale, which descends into ancient evils, should attract a strong following. Ages 12-up. (June) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

READERS REVIEWS
My hands were glued to the book! Anthony Horowitz book Raven's Gate was one of the best Supernatural Fiction books I have ever read. Horowitz was born in England to a wealthy Jewish family. He also went to the University of York and graduated with a BA. The theme of the book is to believe in yourself, and to trust your gut. The main character is a 14 year-old boy named Matt. He loses his parents at a very young age and is forced to move in with his Aunt Gwenda and her boyfriend. He soon turns to petty crimes, and eventually gets caught and put into the LEAF program. When he arrives to Lesser Malling, he realizes something bad is going on, and is determined to found out what is going on, get out, or both. The book kept me at the edge of my seat. It was very entertaining because of the way it was written. This book makes me wonder what could really be out there. I don't think I will ever endure something like this, but it sure would be interesting if I had to. If you like this kind of genre, go out today and get it! It is that good.

This book takes place in present day U.K. Most of the book also takes place in a little town called Lesser Malling in Yorkshire. In Lesser Malling it seems like the time setting has been pushed back a little because they don't have the normal things that we have in our houses like television or internet access. After an incident with his best friend Kevin, Matt is sent into the LEAF project. It's an organization that sends troubled kids to a foster home that will be more tough on him than his normal family was, and it's located in Lesser Malling, which is in about the middle of nowhere. As soon as he gets there, weird things start happening and a man is telling him to get out of Lesser Malling, as soon as he can. He offers to help Matt, but somehow dies. Everyone that tries to help Matt dies. Everything leads back to the old nuclear plant, called Omega One. It seems as though the towns people are trying to get it started again, for whatever reason, and Matt's involved with making that happen. If you love Sci-Fi, this book is defiantly for you. It's full of things that could never possibly happen in real life, but things that people wonder about. I mean, dinosaurs coming to life in the museum at night when Matt is there? Who knows what goes on in museums after dark? Plus, all the phenomenon about witches is involved, and the mystery of Stonehenge. I absolutely loved this book, I'm a Sci-Fi geek myself. You should defiantly try this book out!

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School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-At the outset of this first book in Anthony Horowitz's latest series (Scholastic, 2005), 14year-old Matt is arrested at the scene of an electronics warehouse break-in. Soon, he's remanded to the home of a crone in a country village. She's ornery, but the village is out and out creepy: he can't find a road that goes anywhere but in a circle and it seems everyone to whom he turns for help winds up dead. Horowitz's Alex Rider books presented the boy against the system of national espionage. Matt's situation is even worse-his opponents are witches. Simon Prebble's pacing as Matt struggles from quicksand, is chased by dinosaurs through the Natural History Museum, and finds himself about to be sacrificed by the coven in a secluded wood remains agonizingly steady, wringing every drop of horror from the author's carefully drawn plot in this fantasy set in modern times.Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews This first in a projected series by the author of the Alex Rider books has it all-mystery, suspense, conspiracies, occult elements and science gone amuck-and instead of becoming a novelistic mishmash, it all works. Rejected by his only living relative, betrayed to the police by a supposed friend, Matt Freeman chooses to serve a probationary sentence on an English farm near York rather than in a juvenile detention center. Shortly after he arrives at Hive Hill-the farm owned by his sinister guardian-a thoroughly terrified Matt discovers that he can't escape either the farm or the mysterious destiny facing him. In this page-turner, Horowitz constantly jacks up the tension, ricocheting from catastrophe to disaster and violently killing off any adults who try to help Matt. Many of the 20 chapters end in cliffhangers, while the spectacular climax and surprising conclusion provide both a satisfying ending and a good set-up for the next in the series. Go. Visit. Have an exhilarating read. (Fiction. 10-14)$100,000 ad/promo budget

From the Publisher VOYA 10/1/05

Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz . In the first installment of his new Gatekeepers series, Horowitz moves from the action-thriller genre in his Alex Rider series to action-supernatural. Matt is a fourteen-year-old orphan in trouble with the law, and the magistrate who hears his case decides to enter him into a special project that sends juvenile offenders to live in the country with foster parents. Almost immediately Matt wishes that he had been sent to a perfectly normal juvenile detention center. Something is very odd about the village of Lesser Mailing. Roads lead nowhere, a dead cat reappears alive and well, voices whisper at night, and something is going on in the woods. It gradually becomes clear that a great battle between good and evil is brewing, and Matt is wanted by both sides, although for different reasons. Horowitz does a great job of ratcheting up the tension and building to an exciting climax at the site of an ancient gate between worlds. His writing is fast paced and entertaining, despite occasional inconsistencies and abrupt changes in point of view, sometimes even within the same paragraph. Younger teens who like an exciting adventure mixed with supernatural horror will thrill to Matt's story and look forward to the next installment. School Library Journal July 2005 Gr 9 Up-Matt is in serious trouble. He's been involved in a robbery where a man was stabbed, and he now has to choose between jail or a new program that places juvenile offenders with community members. Suddenly he is moving to Lesser Malling and finding out about his chores on Mrs. Deverill's farm. There is something sinister about his new foster parent and the town. The teen stumbles across a murdered man who disappears by the time he returns with the police, an old broken-down nuclear-reactor plant that hums and glows at night, and suspicious activities at the farm. As things become more and more frightening, Matt is forced to find an ally and try to escape the bodies that are piling up around him and the evil that is taking over Lesser Malling. Horowitz departs from his popular teen spy series and turns up the horror in this first installment in a new series. The creepy activities and the overall atmosphere of fear are well defined, and once the action starts, it doesn't let up. People are stabbed with sickles, dinosaur skeletons return to life to attack Matt and his ally, and the protagonist is subjected to strange spells and potions that keep him from discovering the true reason he has been brought to this remote town. This powerful struggle between good and evil is a real page-turner.-Lynn Evarts, Sauk Prairie High School, Prairie du Sac, WI PW- 6/20/05 Horowitz (the Alex Rider series) unveils a thoroughly creepy new tale with this first entry in the Gatekeepers series. The novel opens as 14-year-old Matt Freeman reluctantly helps an older friend break into a warehouse. A frequent truant (he has lived with his aunt since his parents were killed in a car accident), Matt's problems grow exponentially worse when he finds himself charged as an accessory to assault after his friend stabs a security guard during the failed burglary. Matt is offered a chance to participate in the LEAF Program (Liberty and Education Achieved Through Fostering), which sends troubled youths to rural settings where "there are fewer temptations." In the custody of severe, stern Mrs. Deverill, Matt must clean the pigsty among other chores. But his tasks pale compared to the gathering threat in the village of Lesser Malling. Though he tries to escape, Matt finds his attempts thwarted by unseen forces, and he soon realizes that his presence in Lesser Malling is no accident.