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I read this book to be able to quiz my eleven year old as he read it and to be honest the book is pretty good. The characters are likeable and not saccharine, the boy...Ben...has realistic conflicts, and the animals seem to be realistically depicted. My eleven year old enjoyed the book, my thirteen year old read a few chapters and said he liked it.

My only critism is that the resolution comes out of the blue. The development of the identity of the culprit seems to happen abruptly in the last few chapters. There are no clues early on that foreshadow the ending. Real life may be that way but it does not make for a satisfactory ending in a novel.

That aside I would recommend it for young readers, challenging for an eleven year old, easy for a thirteen year old.

Sniper is a FABULOUS book!
"As if he was jabbed with a needle, Ben woke up in a rush to find the sisters dead outside." Sniper, by award winning author Theodore Taylor, is a fantastic book. Ben Jepson lives on a California nature preserve. Everyday Ben wakes up to large cats roaring. Ben is devoted and very caring towards the animals. He is also loving towards a lion named Rocky whom he brought up from a cub.
Ben gets really angry after a sniper kills four of his favorite lions. One night, Ben goes after the Sniper after he attempted to shoot Ben.
Sniper has good language and strong verbs. You won't want to put down the book. This book is gripping. There are only a few weak points. There are a few curses and the story gets boring at some points. Also the characters go off topic, which makes the book hard to follow.
Theodore Taylor used plenty of dialogue. He also uses sensory images, for example, " She was a tall angular woman, with milk- white hair..." Another point of author's style is that he uses simple languagE, for example, " Felling a ticking in his throat, hearing his voice all wound up." The message of this book is that you don't know what you have until you loose it, because Ben always took his problems out on his lions. But then when they got killed he took care of the other one's better.
We would recommend this book to boys and girls in sixth and seventh grade. The girls would probably like the aanimals, and the boys would like the guns. We would recommend this to twelve year olds because of the shooting aspect.

Sniper
Book Review

Sniper is another intense novel by Theodore Taylor. [This is his] another suspenseful masterpiece that is sure to be enjoyed by readers.

Sniper tells a story of a young fifteen year old, Benjamin Jepson, who's in charge of his family's lion preserve in Los Coyotes, California. Everything seems fine until utter chaos breaks out. In the middle of the night, a sniper lurks around waiting to kill. This event leads Ben on an epic adventure to a surprising twist at the end.

This creative contains colorful language and only has minor flaws. For one, at times the story seems to drag on and on, without many details or sensory images. However, this novel is still a great choice for all of you young detectives out there. (...) Get off your chair and buy it today! You won't be sorry.