South Carolina Junior Book Award (2005) Īdaptations Graphic novel.Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (2004).Kirkus Reviews also commented that the book's plot was "preposterous" but stated that the readers "won't care". Common Sense Media praised Stormbreaker for its action sequences, but criticised its dialogue and logic. The aim of the attack was to kill hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren and their teachers.Ĭritical reception for Stormbreaker was mixed to positive, with the book being placed on multiple ALA lists. There he discovers the Stormbreaker computer factory where millions of computers were being filled with biological weapons which would give smallpox to the user. He is sent undercover to Port Tallen, Cornwall. The protagonist, Alex Rider, after the suspicious death of his uncle, secretly becomes a teenage spy for MI6. Ī film adaptation, starring Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider, was released in 2005. Since its release, the book has sold more than nine million copies worldwide, been listed on the BBC's The Big Read, and in 2005 received a California Young Reader Medal. The book was released in the United Kingdom on the 4th of September 2000, and in United States release on, where it became a New York Times Bestseller. Stormbreaker is a young adult action-adventure book written by British author Anthony Horowitz, and is the first novel in the Alex Rider series.
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