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Maximum Security (Cherub #3)
Over the years CHERUB has put plenty of criminals behind bars. Now, for the first time ever, they've got to break one out!
Under American law, kids convicted of serious crimes can be sentenced as adults. Two hundred and eighty of these child criminals live in the sunbaked desert prison of Arizona Max.
in one of the most daring CHERUB missions ever, James Adams has to go unde...more
Under American law, kids convicted of serious crimes can be sentenced as adults. Two hundred and eighty of these child criminals live in the sunbaked desert prison of Arizona Max.
in one of the most daring CHERUB missions ever, James Adams has to go unde...more
Paperback, 277 pages
Published
April 14th 2006
by Hodder Children's Books
(first published 2005)
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started this on the 16th, and so far ive read almost all of it, it is extremely good, i love the cherub books, they are a must read xx
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Maximum Security by Robert Muchamore, is the third book in the CHERUB series. For me personally I enjoyed this book a lot, and I think that it is worth reading. Maximum Security, is about James' third mission with the campus legend Dave and his sister Lauren. James has to get into a prison, break out a criminal and do this with hardly any support inside the prison itself. It makes for a very interesting read.
The characters in Maximum Security are really well built up and enjoyable. I enjoyed rea...more
The characters in Maximum Security are really well built up and enjoyable. I enjoyed rea...more
This is book three in the outstanding Cherub series by Robert Muchamoore. This mission was different from the usual type. This organization usually tries to get criminals behind bars but in this case, James Adams has to get himself into jail to befriend a criminal. This isn't just any man behind bars though, this is the son of one of the most wanted weapons smugglers in America.
James is partnered with his sister Lauren, and another Cherub agent named Dave Moss, who poses as his brother. The poin...more
James is partnered with his sister Lauren, and another Cherub agent named Dave Moss, who poses as his brother. The poin...more
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(SPOILER! Bøgerne i ‘Cherub’-serien udgør ikke en sammenhængende historie. Det vil sige, at hver bog har sin egen afsluttede historie. Men da det er de samme hovedpersoner, vi følger i alle bøgerne, kan der være enkelte spoilers i resuméet om deres udvikling, hvis du ikke har læst den forrige bog.)
James lillesøster Lauren forsøger nu for anden gang for at tage sin afgangseksamen som Cherub-agent, hvilket betyder, at Lauren og Bethany nu kæmper sig igennem...more
(SPOILER! Bøgerne i ‘Cherub’-serien udgør ikke en sammenhængende historie. Det vil sige, at hver bog har sin egen afsluttede historie. Men da det er de samme hovedpersoner, vi følger i alle bøgerne, kan der være enkelte spoilers i resuméet om deres udvikling, hvis du ikke har læst den forrige bog.)
James lillesøster Lauren forsøger nu for anden gang for at tage sin afgangseksamen som Cherub-agent, hvilket betyder, at Lauren og Bethany nu kæmper sig igennem...more
The third book in the CHERUB series sees James Adams, our hero from the two previous instalments, taking on his most daring mission yet as he aids the FBI in tracking down a notorious arms dealer. The kicker is that his mission entails infiltrating a maximum security prison where some of the most dangerous child criminals are held, and breaking out the arms dealer's son, who is spending a lengthy term inside. Things are complicated further by the fact that James' sister is also part of what is h...more
wow. okay, let me just start by stating...this is not my usual read. I started the series as a favour to my younger sister and ended up liking it inspite of the rather gritty feel. So after mediumly enjoying the first I was prepared to have a similar experience with maximum security. what I couldn't have predicted was how much I enjoyed this!
having said that the gritty setting almost made me put the book down nearer the beginning. I confess I know little about prisons but even spending just hrs...more
having said that the gritty setting almost made me put the book down nearer the beginning. I confess I know little about prisons but even spending just hrs...more
Why I decided to read this book:
Because its the 3rd book in the Cherub series and I had already read the first two, so this book was next
Which category on the bingo board this book completes:
This book completes the non-fiction book category as Cherub is not a real agency and there is no such thing as kid spies
What I liked about this book and why:
I really like all the books in the Cherub series including this one as Robert Muchamore is very good at showing characters emotions and feelings and is...more
Because its the 3rd book in the Cherub series and I had already read the first two, so this book was next
Which category on the bingo board this book completes:
This book completes the non-fiction book category as Cherub is not a real agency and there is no such thing as kid spies
What I liked about this book and why:
I really like all the books in the Cherub series including this one as Robert Muchamore is very good at showing characters emotions and feelings and is...more
Maximum Security, written by Robert Muchamore, is the third book of the Cherub series. James is faced with a hard mission. He must go into a prison for young criminals and has to becomes friends with one specific kid and get to know him just because of his mom. So James becomes friends with him during the time in jail and then escapes jail with the other kid. He then finds his mother and James goes into action. He then uses the police to come and help him and then they capture his mom and the ki...more
James starts off, as it usaully seems, in trouble. The question is how will he get out? He gets an oppurtunity from Zara Asker who is one of the head mission controllers at CHERUB. James has to stay inside one of America's most ruthless prisons, Arizona Max. Fortunatley James will be accompanied by one of CHERUB's finest agents, Dave, who is the youngest person at CHERUB to recieve their black shirt. Then Dave gets severly beaten at the prison, leaving the mission in jeporady. This leaves James...more
I good read. I'll definitely continue reading the rest of the series.
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I have to say I didn't like it as much as the others. This is becuase I think the missions are too extreme and dangerous to early into the series, even the "legendary" CHERUB Dave Moss, was in trouble. He nearly died, and that was right when the mission barely got started. Lauren shouldn't have even been in this mission because of its danger level and her just being out of basic training.
Also I'm starting t...more
**Warning Spoilers**
I have to say I didn't like it as much as the others. This is becuase I think the missions are too extreme and dangerous to early into the series, even the "legendary" CHERUB Dave Moss, was in trouble. He nearly died, and that was right when the mission barely got started. Lauren shouldn't have even been in this mission because of its danger level and her just being out of basic training.
Also I'm starting t...more
A third book about the secret agency, Cherub and James Adams where he goes undercover into a US jail. The violence and power pyramid that goes on in the cells reminds me of the movie watched in English class about neo-nazi skinheads. There people are naturally divided by race and strength. Tensions between different races cause riots and fights. The system meant the strong takes all the power and look after weaks in exchange for stuff. It must be extraordinarily hard to survive under such danger...more
This is another book in the CHERUB seres. In this book james's sister lauren becomes a cherub agent and they go on a mission into a maximum security jail to bust out a criminal's kid and take him to the mother who is the criminal and capture her. she has been steeling from U.S. millitary bases for years and years. James does a fake bust out and they catch his mother, but she sends someone to kill them, but there training kicks in and they survive and go back to CHERUB.
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The cherub series is one of my favourite series, it is a thrill seeking , action packed adventure series.Cherub is an academy where children are trained to be elite undercover agents, because who suspects children as agents. Learning various different languages to cope with their certain mission and also learning martial arts when in danger.I read the 3rd book in the series which is Maximum Security, the story is pretty good , James and Dave who are some cherubs agents are placed in a Maximum Se...more
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I started off the series with this book since there were no copies available of the previous ones.Firstly,I totally liked Alex Rider better.I rated all the Alex Rider books four to five stars.But I don't know whether it's the plot or a thirteen year old tryin' to be all cool and stuff,I didn't get this feeling I usually get when I'm reading a really good book.You know, the suspense and everything ,or in other words, it didn't feel like Alex Rider.It didn't feel different, the way it should feel...more
This book is action packed like all of Robert Muchmore. James must go into a prison desguised as a criminal to rescue the son of a dangerous weapons dealer. James must become friends with the boy to get him out, and for protection in the prison because he makes many enamies. They get out of prison go to a trailer park and bribe a women to take them to California. Then they get Jane oxford (the weapons dealer) out in the open. Then in the last seen they arrest her in a dramatic way.
This book show...more
This book show...more
Excellent series. Take the time frame that Harry Potter books write in (he ages from 12-18 over the series) and instead of a world of Fantasy make it a world of Spy craft. This Basically is children being James Bond or Jason Borne and based on each book everything seems fairly realistic. The one thing I appreciated over the entirety of the series is the fact that the characters actually grow and deal with puberty. It adds a layer that makes the series more teen appropriate than the Harry potter...more
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personally..i think this is the most interesting books that i ever read. Actually, the writings of Robert Muchamore is a continuation of the previous edition. however, I do not read the 1 & 2 editions. Overall this book is very interesting because you can't imagine how the intelligence process of recruiting is done on children. Then, i think the way the story is very interesting because you really can not wait to see more continuity with the beat...so I suggest to anyone who likes to read bo...more
My first impression of the book was horrible, since the book started with a different point of view. However, as the story went on, I started to like it. The mission that James got was thrilling and kept me sitting on the edge of the seat. I even thought that the state should make a law that people who read this book need to have their seat belts on.
The plot of the book was very interesting. Unlike Alex Rider Series, the characters always have some help from his friends and people from CHERUB....more
The plot of the book was very interesting. Unlike Alex Rider Series, the characters always have some help from his friends and people from CHERUB....more
When James Choke's mother dies, it looks as though he's on the fast track to a young offender's institution. It seems as though luck is on his side, however, when he is recruited into CHERUB, a secret branch of the government that trains and uses children as spies. He becomes James Adams, and his new life begins.
James is now thirteen, and he's headed out on his most dangerous mission yet. Under American law, kids convicted of serious crimes can be sentenced as adults. Two hundred and eighty of t...more
James is now thirteen, and he's headed out on his most dangerous mission yet. Under American law, kids convicted of serious crimes can be sentenced as adults. Two hundred and eighty of t...more
The cherub series is one of my favorite book series. It puts action, comedy, spying and suspense and jams it all into one series. Maximum Security is really a book that has kept me hooked on the whole way through and there was never a moment when I felt like putting it down or saying I had read enough. The book has many twist and turns that keep the reader interested and the literature used really portraits the feelings and emotion of the characters, that you almost feel like you are James on an...more
Intro And Background:
CHERUB Maximum Security is the 3rd book in the CHERUB series by Robbert Muchamore. In this book the main character James Adams has to get arrested and break out of one of the top jails in the world. Not only that but he also as to break out Curtis Oxford son of Jane Oxford. James gets arrested with his “elder brother” (another CHERUB agent) and they both soon learn how bad jail really is. They are hardly fed, the living conditions are terrible but worst of all are the cell m...more
CHERUB Maximum Security is the 3rd book in the CHERUB series by Robbert Muchamore. In this book the main character James Adams has to get arrested and break out of one of the top jails in the world. Not only that but he also as to break out Curtis Oxford son of Jane Oxford. James gets arrested with his “elder brother” (another CHERUB agent) and they both soon learn how bad jail really is. They are hardly fed, the living conditions are terrible but worst of all are the cell m...more
Maximum Security is an action spy book based in Arizona.
The reason I read this book is because I was reading it with a friend on another forum. I'm so glad I read it for the 4th time because it jogged my memory before reading the next 11 books in the series.
The main plot in this book is to catch a wanted weapons-dealer Jane Oxford, and they do this by sending in CHERUB agents, minors who are trained to escape capture and lure out criminals through their innocent appearance.
James Adams is a 13-ye...more
The reason I read this book is because I was reading it with a friend on another forum. I'm so glad I read it for the 4th time because it jogged my memory before reading the next 11 books in the series.
The main plot in this book is to catch a wanted weapons-dealer Jane Oxford, and they do this by sending in CHERUB agents, minors who are trained to escape capture and lure out criminals through their innocent appearance.
James Adams is a 13-ye...more
In the third of Robert Muchamore’s CHERUB series, James Adams is 13 years old and facing his greatest challenge yet. Our young hero, this time along with his sister, Lauren, and the respected and somewhat infamous older CHERUB agent Dave Moss, travel to America to infiltrate a supposedly escape-proof, maximum security prison in Arizona desert. This being a CHERUB mission, the important words here are ’supposedly escape-proof,’ because that is exactly what James has to do’. Not only that, the tea...more
This is one of m favorite books of the series. For once they have Lauren in the book. In the first two books she didn’t have as big as a role as she had on this book. It was a disappointment that the older Cherub agent couldn’t go through with the whole mission. I would have wanted to see if he could have made the mission go smoother. I also wanted to see how he would have worked together with James because in the beginning of the book he really looked up to the other agent.
this book is in the category, on my book blog bingo board as 'a book with a male main character.'
CHERUB maximum security is a book about James Adams who is an kid agent who is sent to Arizona max (prison) to work as a troubled child.
Maximum Security is one interesting FBI novel.The events, the setups, the characters, and just the way the book placed one event after another was accelerating. this is a very good book and it is a book that i suggest reading!
CHERUB maximum security is a book about James Adams who is an kid agent who is sent to Arizona max (prison) to work as a troubled child.
Maximum Security is one interesting FBI novel.The events, the setups, the characters, and just the way the book placed one event after another was accelerating. this is a very good book and it is a book that i suggest reading!
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Its an amazing saga to the cherub series with a new twist the main character James(the main character) travels with his sister and another agent to go undercover.
This time they are not with the law but are going against it. Their mission is to break a kid out of jail in the middle of the arizona desert since in america kids who convict crime are sentenced as adults.
Will he be able to accomplish their mission?
This time they are not with the law but are going against it. Their mission is to break a kid out of jail in the middle of the arizona desert since in america kids who convict crime are sentenced as adults.
Will he be able to accomplish their mission?
1)This book fits into the catergory: Book reccomended by a family member
2)I decided to read it because it was reccomended and it was in the cherub series
3)I liked the plot of the story how hes a secret agent and stuff and it was written in a way that i could understand and relate to and i like reading these kind of stories.
4)I liked everything about the book
5)I would reccomend this book to people who enjoy the cherub series.
2)I decided to read it because it was reccomended and it was in the cherub series
3)I liked the plot of the story how hes a secret agent and stuff and it was written in a way that i could understand and relate to and i like reading these kind of stories.
4)I liked everything about the book
5)I would reccomend this book to people who enjoy the cherub series.
Fun series. I like how the author is starting to explore the depth of the relationship between James and his sister more. This was the first book in this series though that I will have to think twice about recomending to a student though. There was a search scene that was a bit to graphic for my taste. I will have to just recomend the series and then pray for the best.
I finished reading Maximum Security and it was a great book. It was very interesting. It's the 3rd book out of the 6 in the series and so far it's the best book I've read in the series and since it's only the 3rd book I'm very excited to read the rest of the books in the series. This book in general was a very intense books. I would recommend this book to any teenagers who read action or very intense books. What I like about this book too is that it makes you picture the book in your mind. What...more
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Robert Muchamore was born in Islington, London in 1972. He still lives there, and worked as a private investigator up until 2005 and the critically-accepted release of Maximum Security.
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