Jewel Heist: Volume 4

by Mike Hamel

MIKE HAMEL'S MATTERHORN, THE BRAVE PITFALLS, KIDNAPPING, AND INSPIRATION Matterhorn the Brave is an exciting new juvenile fiction series about four young children who are recruited to keep an eye on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899578365
• ISBN13: 9780899578361
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Living Ink Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Battles in the Bermuda

In this fourth book of the matterhorn series. Matterhorn gets a rude awakening when he learns that Jewels has been kidnapped. Matterhorn was frightened by the thought that they could come into his own world. Soon the Baron Nate and Sara are fighting canibals, category 5 huricanes, two evil wraiths and a philosipher kungfu type noble

Keep the adventure coming!

Mike Hamel takes legends and mysteries everybody hears about from childhood, and makes them real in his stories. The characters, word play, and grand adventure in this book make it fun to read at any age.

Matterhorn's Caribbean Caper

In "Jewel Heist," Matterhorn the Brave and his friends are faced with rescuing Jewel from her kidnappers. The Sword of Truth, the Band of Justice, and the Traveler's Cube become the ransom demand. Matt and Aaron are transported through a portal to another time and place to meet these demands and to release Jewel. Soon the team find themselves in danger of becoming dinner for some cannibals. They go through a category-five hurricane, near the Bermuda Triangle, in the Caribbean. Matt escapes near death by a tiger shark, and a threatened attack by vampire bats keep the adrenaline flowing. Nonstop action, danger, and rescue fill the pages of number four in Mike Hamel's Matterhorn the Brave series. Throughout the story, Mike drops tidbits of the previous adventures of Matterhorn and his friends. These become "teasers" making new readers want to read the earlier books in the series as well as allowing the "fans" of Matt, Nate, Sara, Aaron, and Jewel an opportunity to reminisce about the thrilling episodes they have already experienced. Mike is a gifted story teller and has amazing insight into the mind of today's youth. "Jewel Heist" provides the reader with a great adventure and likable, believable characters. Mike Hamel effectively entertains with an exciting story line of fast paced action, while encouraging active imagination, imparting factual knowledge, moral values, and a spiritual awareness.