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Skeleton Key

an Alex Rider adventure

Anthony Horowitz

Ages 10–15

Readers rate it 3.8 (182 on Hardcover)

327 pages · Released 2006

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Skeleton Key parent’s guide: what’s inside

High confidence

Sexual content

LGBTQ+ themes

Substance use

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A note for parents

Skeleton Key is an action-packed spy thriller appropriate for middle-grade readers who enjoy adventure and suspense. The violence is present but not graphically depicted—typical of the spy-action genre with shootouts, fights, and explosions that don't linger on gore. Alex demonstrates courage, quick thinking, and resourcefulness while facing real danger, and the story rewards his integrity and determination to protect others despite personal risk.

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From the publisher

Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces some... Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first... Uniting forces with America's own CIA for the first time, teen spy Alex Rider battles terror from the sun-baked beaches of Miami all the way to the barren ice fields of northernmost Russia. Come along for the thrilling ride of a lifetime.

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  • Mystery
  • Spies in fiction
  • Terrorism in fiction
  • Terrorism
  • Orphans
  • Tennis
  • Alex Rider (Fictitious character)
  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Tennis stories
  • England in fiction
  • Thriller

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