# Skeleton Key

**Author:** Anthony Horowitz
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 1999
**Page count:** 327
**Genre:** Graphic Novel
**ISBN-13:** `9780439662178`
**ISBN-10:** `0439662176`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/skeleton-key
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

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.

## Themes

- mystery
- spies in fiction
- terrorism in fiction
- terrorism

## Where this book is assigned

### Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards), Grades 3-5 & Grades 6-8 divisions

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- **recommended** · 4th grade · Louisiana — [source: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards), Grades 3-5 & Grades 6-8 divisions — Louisiana's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-56-83-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winne...](https://slol.libguides.com/c.php?g=1291511&p=9482444)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Louisiana — [source: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards), Grades 3-5 & Grades 6-8 divisions — Louisiana's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-56-83-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winne...](https://slol.libguides.com/c.php?g=1291511&p=9482444)

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