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Independence Hall (I.Q. #1)
by
Roland Smith
Fame has arrived for rockers Blaze and Roger! Just married, leaving Los Angeles, and touring the United States with teenagers Q (Quest) and Angela in tow, the excitement heightens in Philadelphia when Angela realizes she's being followed. Q soon learns the secret about Angela's real mother - a former Secret Service agent.
Readers are thrust into current issues affecting the
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Published
August 27th 2008
by Sleeping Bear Press
(first published January 1st 2008)
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The protagonist is a boy named Quest (Q) who is the son and step-son of rockstars Blaze Munoz and Roger Tucker. His new step-sister is Angela (Tucker)
In the beginning of the story, Q and Angela's parents are beginning their tour as the most sensational couple in the music industry. Q and Angela live in the bus with them, but their parents are jetting all over the country for T.V interviews and private concerts.
But then things change...
Plot:
The plot worked well the idea. and I don't recall seeing...more
In the beginning of the story, Q and Angela's parents are beginning their tour as the most sensational couple in the music industry. Q and Angela live in the bus with them, but their parents are jetting all over the country for T.V interviews and private concerts.
But then things change...
Plot:
The plot worked well the idea. and I don't recall seeing...more
This book was chosen by my students in the book club, and I have to admit, I was definitely the "reluctant" reader in this group. Interestingly enough, I would market this book to my boys, but there are only girls in my book club. So, yeah, check me out making all of these wrong stereotypes.
I, Q is a spy novel of sorts. And although I can get into a good Bon movie, I have no interested in reading about spooks. (Spooks is a new word for me. Did you know it? it means spies!)
As it happens, what dre...more
I, Q is a spy novel of sorts. And although I can get into a good Bon movie, I have no interested in reading about spooks. (Spooks is a new word for me. Did you know it? it means spies!)
As it happens, what dre...more
IQ
Roland smith
7-16-11
IQ is the story of Quest and his step-sister Angela. Their parents who have just been married start their honeymoon with a cross country tour for their hit band “match”. On their way they break down. They find a strange man named “Boone” who becomes their driver and mechanic. When Quest and Angela stay behind with Boone while their parents are at a concert they become mixed up with groups of secret agents.
There is another side to this story in the form of Israeli Mossad Ag...more
Roland smith
7-16-11
IQ is the story of Quest and his step-sister Angela. Their parents who have just been married start their honeymoon with a cross country tour for their hit band “match”. On their way they break down. They find a strange man named “Boone” who becomes their driver and mechanic. When Quest and Angela stay behind with Boone while their parents are at a concert they become mixed up with groups of secret agents.
There is another side to this story in the form of Israeli Mossad Ag...more
Apr 23, 2011
Kelly
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Independence Hall (I, Q Series, Book #1) by Roland Smith is about teens Quest (Q for short) and Angela. Q's rocker mother marries Angela's songwriter father after the duo's band became extremely successful. They decide to go on tour across country in a giant tour bus, bringing the kids along. Little did they know that Angela and Q were delving into Angela's deceased mother's old occupation: secret service agent and spy! When an ancient old roadie named Boone suddenly appears just when the family...more
Mar 19, 2010
Sandra Stiles
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
all of my students
Recommended to Sandra by:
received from publisher
Shelves:
middle-grades,
mystery
Q and his new step-sister Angela find themselves caught up in something they are not quite prepared for.
Blaze Munoz and Roger Tucker are two musicians who are starting off their tour with a wedding. Blaze had hit the top of the charts then took time off to be a mother. Roger Tucker has written songs for years. Now he and Blaze will start a new life together not only as a newly married couple with a blended family but also as the newest and hottest singing group, "Match".
Q has not really gotten...more
Blaze Munoz and Roger Tucker are two musicians who are starting off their tour with a wedding. Blaze had hit the top of the charts then took time off to be a mother. Roger Tucker has written songs for years. Now he and Blaze will start a new life together not only as a newly married couple with a blended family but also as the newest and hottest singing group, "Match".
Q has not really gotten...more
Teenagers Q and Angela have just become step-siblings. Their parents have united as a couple and as a new music sensation. Their sudden fame has turned the whole world to this wedding and their up-coming music tour. Angela and Q are dubious about their new blended family and the uproar of fame and notoriety, but their parents are committed to having as "normal" a family life as possible, so the four of them board the tour bus without any entourage and begin the trip east from California to a Phi...more
Oct 11, 2011
Cody M
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independence hall starts out in a wedding from the view of a boy named q. it is his moms wedding, and the wedding is going to be a music video for q's mom and step dad who are in a band by the name of match. once the wedding is over q and his new step sister Angela and their parents start a country wide tour. not long after starting the tour the bus breaks down and the kids get caught up in a CIA, secret agent mission revolved around terrorism.
would i recommend it? yes, it is a pretty decent boo...more
would i recommend it? yes, it is a pretty decent boo...more
Cormac Reilly 3/4/10
I.Q by: Roland Smith
There is a boy named Q he started his life living in a boat until his mother got married to a guy named Roger they forma band and go on a tour and roger has a daughter named Angela. Q and Angela are getting followed by Israel terrorist cause Angela’s real mom was a secret agent and they tried to get Angela. Then they got security and there were fights here and there and they killed some but not all.
My favorite character in the book was Angela because sh...more
I.Q by: Roland Smith
There is a boy named Q he started his life living in a boat until his mother got married to a guy named Roger they forma band and go on a tour and roger has a daughter named Angela. Q and Angela are getting followed by Israel terrorist cause Angela’s real mom was a secret agent and they tried to get Angela. Then they got security and there were fights here and there and they killed some but not all.
My favorite character in the book was Angela because sh...more
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This is one of those books I wanted to read, but was reluctant because of the cover. Plus, a little look inside the book told me it would probably be confusing with chapters, dates and chapters in italic. I reluctantly started on the book, about 30 pages in the book, it wasn't so bad afterall. And about a 100 pages in, it was probably one of the best books I have ever read! Roland Smith is a very good writer. The book in simple words is about 2 step-siblings. Their parents recently got married a...more
Hello Q (thirteen year old Quest Munoz)!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
For the next year, you will travel across the country with your family (mother Blaze, new stepfather Roger, and new step-sister Angela, age 15) as your parents kick off a cross-country tour for their band Matched. You will live in and being homeschooled on the tour bus. You will meet new people; learn secrets, including those regarding national security; and gather information about current issues, terrorism, an...more
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
For the next year, you will travel across the country with your family (mother Blaze, new stepfather Roger, and new step-sister Angela, age 15) as your parents kick off a cross-country tour for their band Matched. You will live in and being homeschooled on the tour bus. You will meet new people; learn secrets, including those regarding national security; and gather information about current issues, terrorism, an...more
Uhm, well,... I was enjoying it at first; it is a kid's spy novel, one of the kids knows tae kwon do and the other is a good magician, the dialogue is fun, just kind of offbeat enough. But pretty soon the story starts tripping over itself. Angela takes out 2 Mossad agents with her nifty tae kwon do and Q foils an agent with a card trick. Agents are going this way and that, shedding wigs, changing accents, planting bugs, putting more agents in place, playing obscure footage of an angel or is it a...more
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"Independence Hall," though a pretty decent book, never quite lived up to its potential. The book started off really well, moving at a great pace and setting up what looked to be a really exciting story. I recall reading the first eighty pages the first night I got the book. Unfortunately the story I was being set up for--about two teen step-siblings becoming some sort of spies--never really ended up happening. Around a hundred pages in, the story stopped dead in it's tracks.
For the rest of the...more
For the rest of the...more
IQ #1: Independence Hall
By Roland Smith
311 Pages
Science Fiction
Independence Hall was about two stepsiblings, Quest (Q) and Angela, who are brought together when their rock star parents, Roger and Blaze go on tour. They meet up with a man named Tyrone Boone and he volunteers to be their tour bus driver. When Blaze and Roger leave Q, Angela, and Boone alone, Boone gets the children mixed up in Secret Service things, as well as someone who is following Angela and trying to get information on her m...more
By Roland Smith
311 Pages
Science Fiction
Independence Hall was about two stepsiblings, Quest (Q) and Angela, who are brought together when their rock star parents, Roger and Blaze go on tour. They meet up with a man named Tyrone Boone and he volunteers to be their tour bus driver. When Blaze and Roger leave Q, Angela, and Boone alone, Boone gets the children mixed up in Secret Service things, as well as someone who is following Angela and trying to get information on her m...more
I.Q. Independence hall
Fiction
pages: 248
I.Q. is about a boy named Quest or nicknamed Q and his new step sister Anglena. Q's mom used to be a rocker with Q's biological father blaze. But now Q's mom is marrying Anglenas dad and they have a singing group called matches. Now only and hour after the wedding there all going on a tour around the country. But there car brakes down. Luckily one of Q's mothers old Roadie arrived to help them. He fixes there car and tags along for the tour, but he is not w...more
Fiction
pages: 248
I.Q. is about a boy named Quest or nicknamed Q and his new step sister Anglena. Q's mom used to be a rocker with Q's biological father blaze. But now Q's mom is marrying Anglenas dad and they have a singing group called matches. Now only and hour after the wedding there all going on a tour around the country. But there car brakes down. Luckily one of Q's mothers old Roadie arrived to help them. He fixes there car and tags along for the tour, but he is not w...more
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Alternate Ending
Angela turns around and notices a figure. She gives me a hint to turn around. I can hear her softly whisper "Q, I think someone is watching us". Then before I can tell her to wait she zooms off after the figure.
I watch the figure sneak out the concert back door. I see Angela; she keeps running at the figure. Who is that person?
I run after Angela and then I feel the stadiums floor hit my head. Somebody tripped me.
I yell “Angela, wait for me!”
Angela tur...more
Alternate Ending
Angela turns around and notices a figure. She gives me a hint to turn around. I can hear her softly whisper "Q, I think someone is watching us". Then before I can tell her to wait she zooms off after the figure.
I watch the figure sneak out the concert back door. I see Angela; she keeps running at the figure. Who is that person?
I run after Angela and then I feel the stadiums floor hit my head. Somebody tripped me.
I yell “Angela, wait for me!”
Angela tur...more
A good, action-packed first in a series - good enough to make me want to read the next one. Q, short for Quest, and Angela become brother and sister when their parents, the famous singing duo called Match, get married. The whole family goes on tour, but while Match is in another city giving a concert, the teens find themselves in the middle of a top secret situation that involves Angela's dead mother. Angela and Q find out that someone is following them, and it is only with the help of Boone and...more
Exciting, well written, and interesting characters. There are some surprising twists in the book, which keep it interesting, even when it is another of many young adult spy novels. The things the children do are quite realistic too, which makes it better than some young adult spy novels. The only downside of the book for me was that I got a bit weary of the constant running around trying to ditch one person or another. However, it works quite well, and the ending is exciting. It leads in to the...more
Independence Hall(I.Q.,#1)
by Roland Smith
Adventure
293 Pages
Finished:9/10/12
The story begins at the wedding of Blaze Munoz and Roger Tucker. This is when we meet the main character of this story, Quest, or Q. Q's mom is Blaze and his stepdad is Roger. Both of them are famous rock stars. He also has a older stepsister named Angela. Roger and Blaze are going to have a tour where they travel to Philidalphea. During this tour, they find one of Blaze's old friend named Boone. He claims to be an ancien...more
by Roland Smith
Adventure
293 Pages
Finished:9/10/12
The story begins at the wedding of Blaze Munoz and Roger Tucker. This is when we meet the main character of this story, Quest, or Q. Q's mom is Blaze and his stepdad is Roger. Both of them are famous rock stars. He also has a older stepsister named Angela. Roger and Blaze are going to have a tour where they travel to Philidalphea. During this tour, they find one of Blaze's old friend named Boone. He claims to be an ancien...more
I.Q. is a fast-paced mystery with likable teen characters and SOS (Some Old Spooks) teamed against the bad guys. Thirteen-year-old Quest and his new stepsister, 15-year-old Angela, are on a music tour with their newly married and newly famous musician parents. Not everyone on the tour is who they seem to be, and Angela learns that maybe her Secret Service mother didn't really die 4 years ago in the line of duty. This is the first in a series and was a complete story with a solid ending, not like...more
IQ Independence hall by Roland Smith
Realistic fiction
293 pages
I think IQ by Roland Smith is a great and suspenseful book. It stars the main character Quest, but most people call him Q, and his step sister Angela. Their parents got married and are both famous. So they started traveling on a tour bus with them until there bus breaks down in Nevada and they got help fixing it by an old roadie named Boone for. He turned into the driver and traveled with them. When they’re parents had to leave them...more
Realistic fiction
293 pages
I think IQ by Roland Smith is a great and suspenseful book. It stars the main character Quest, but most people call him Q, and his step sister Angela. Their parents got married and are both famous. So they started traveling on a tour bus with them until there bus breaks down in Nevada and they got help fixing it by an old roadie named Boone for. He turned into the driver and traveled with them. When they’re parents had to leave them...more
The book opens with Q's mother Blaze marrying Roger, just before their newly formed band and new singles go platinum. Now the whole family, including Angela, Roger's daughter, are going to trek across the US touring in a swanky van. Except things aren't exactly as they seem. Blaze and Roger are great, but Angela's mother was a secret service agent before she "died", and now Angela is being followed. Some ex-spies show up to teach the kids a few tricks and try to keep the family from harm. This i...more
I'm not done reading this book, but I wish I was. I don't know, it just hasn't pulled me in and I'm 2/3 finished. I probably won't like it very much.
I finished this book last week of August, and I think it was too soon after having read Storm Breaker. The influence of that spy book was too strong -- I expected more action, a focus on one character, a huge explosion, and a dead bad guy.
There were moments when I was drawn in because I thought the story would pick up its pace, but I didn't care for...more
I finished this book last week of August, and I think it was too soon after having read Storm Breaker. The influence of that spy book was too strong -- I expected more action, a focus on one character, a huge explosion, and a dead bad guy.
There were moments when I was drawn in because I thought the story would pick up its pace, but I didn't care for...more
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I think the kids at our school will be drawn to book one in the I.Q. series because it mentions Winnemucca, Nevada where we live.
Those who are fond of spies and James Bond 007 will enjoy this story. The audience for Independence Hall, which is book one in the series, is fifth through eighth grade. The two main characters Quest and Angela are teens surrounded by some technologically-savvy adults who aren't always who they appear to be upon first encounter.
Here is a novel with terrorists, the Isr...more
Those who are fond of spies and James Bond 007 will enjoy this story. The audience for Independence Hall, which is book one in the series, is fifth through eighth grade. The two main characters Quest and Angela are teens surrounded by some technologically-savvy adults who aren't always who they appear to be upon first encounter.
Here is a novel with terrorists, the Isr...more
In Mrs. Tessler's Room: Spies and Conspiracies
Fun and a good light, summer read with a bunch of intrigue, puzzles, and interesting action. The spy angle in the novel is exciting and the characters are cute, though their ability to "Macguyver" their way out of situations is a bit unreal...more Fun and a good light, summer read with a bunch of intrigue, puzzles, and interesting action. The spy angle in the novel is exciting and the characters are cute, though their ability to "Macguyver" their way...more
Fun and a good light, summer read with a bunch of intrigue, puzzles, and interesting action. The spy angle in the novel is exciting and the characters are cute, though their ability to "Macguyver" their way out of situations is a bit unreal...more Fun and a good light, summer read with a bunch of intrigue, puzzles, and interesting action. The spy angle in the novel is exciting and the characters are cute, though their ability to "Macguyver" their way...more
This is the opening book in a new series by Smith. Those who love the Alex Rider series will enjoy this one as well. Girls will also enjoy this series due to the female character involved. Quest (Q) and Angela are now step-siblings. Their singer/songwriter parents are married and off on a cross country tour. Strange things begin to happen and Q finds out that Angela's real mother was a Secret Service agent killed by terrorists - or was she? Angela is being followed; is their new bus driver one o...more
I like this book because it's suspenseful, and full-of-action. It's about two kids who are step siblings, and the girl's (Angela) dad (Roger) is married to the boy's (Q, or Quest) mother (Blaze). Then their parents become famous. They are on a tour right now, traveling across the country. One day they were eating at a restaurant, because their parents had to go to New York, for work. Angela spotted a guy following them, from the wedding, to the restaurant. Boone their "driver" is not who he says...more
Aug 05, 2011
T. M.
added it
A lite YA thriller.
Q and Angela are united by their musician parents' marriage. Q's dad is a deadbeat and Angela's mom, a Secret Service agent, died.
While traveling around the states on tour with their parents, Q and Angela are followed by suspicious characters. Thanks to a roadie's help, they manage to evade the men seeking to kidnap Angela to use against her un-dead mother. Terrorism plays a role as well.
Good mystery, good action, and good pacing. Worth reading, but borrow it before you buy it...more
Q and Angela are united by their musician parents' marriage. Q's dad is a deadbeat and Angela's mom, a Secret Service agent, died.
While traveling around the states on tour with their parents, Q and Angela are followed by suspicious characters. Thanks to a roadie's help, they manage to evade the men seeking to kidnap Angela to use against her un-dead mother. Terrorism plays a role as well.
Good mystery, good action, and good pacing. Worth reading, but borrow it before you buy it...more
The first in a series, this book introduces Quest, a 13 year boy whose mother has just married 15 year old Angela's father, creating a musical duo that's starting a tour from Philadelphia across the country. Angela's real mother had been a spy and supposedly had been killed in Independance Hall 4 years earlier. Strange people begin showing up, trying to kidnap the teens, starting the action that continues throughout the book. Good dialogue, good rapport between the siblings. This would be good f...more
Fun and a good light, summer read with a bunch of intrigue, puzzles, and interesting action. The spy angle in the novel is exciting and the characters are cute, though their ability to "Macguyver" their way out of situations is a bit unreal...more Fun and a good light, summer read with a bunch of intrigue, puzzles, and interesting action. The spy angle in the novel is exciting and the characters are cute, though their ability to "Macguyver" their way out of situations is a bit unrealistic. Still...more
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Roland Smith is an American author of young adult fiction as well as nonfiction books for children.
Smith was born in Portland, Oregon, and graduated from Portland State University and, following a part-time job at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, began a 20-year career as a zookeeper, both at the Oregon Zoo and the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Washington. After working to save wildlife following the E...more
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Smith was born in Portland, Oregon, and graduated from Portland State University and, following a part-time job at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, began a 20-year career as a zookeeper, both at the Oregon Zoo and the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Washington. After working to save wildlife following the E...more
