H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Walden, Mark

H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781416935711)

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H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Walden, Mark

H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education

$19.99
H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Walden, Mark

H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education

$19.99
Format: Hardcover
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HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATION

Otto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country. He is the perfect candidate to become the world's next supervillain.

That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E., handpicked to become a member of the incoming class. The students have been kidnapped and brought to a secluded island inside a seemingly active volcano, where the school has resided for decades. All the kids are elite; they are the most athletic, the most technically advanced, and the smartest in the country. Inside the cavernous marble rooms, floodlit hangars, and steel doors, the students are enrolled in Villainy Studies and Stealth and Evasion 101. But what Otto soon comes to realize is that this is a six-year program, and leaving is not an option.

With the help of his new friends: an athletic martial-arts expert; a world-famous, beautiful diamond thief; and a spunky computer genius -- the only other people who seem to want to leave -- can Otto achieve what has never been done before and break out of H.I.V.E.?

Author: Mark Walden
ISBN-10: 1416935711
ISBN-13: 9781416935711
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2007
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.34h x 6.11w x 1.13d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 116369 / H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education

Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Nominee
Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Honor Book

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/23/2007 pg. 52
Kirkus Review - Children 05/01/2007 pg. 458
Booklist 04/01/2007 pg. 53
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2007 pg. 169 - Recommended - Readable
School Library Journal 06/01/2007 pg. 164
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2007 pg. 488 - Recommended
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2007 pg. 359 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
By Mark Walden
By Mark Walden
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Mark Walden spent a decade as a video game designer and producer before becoming a fulltime writer and father. He has a BA in English literature and an MA in 20th-century literature, film, and television, both from Newcastle University. He is the author of the H.I.V.E. series and the Earthfall Trilogy and lives with his family in the United Kingdom.

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