![]() ![]() Gordon Korman knows how to write for tweens and teens and this series is hugely appealing to a wide variety of kids. These books are action-packed and wildly unrealistic, but middle school readers devour them and beg for more. They drive cars, plot prison breaks, hijack planes, and hack into computer systems, in some ways using the criminal skills of the criminals whose DNA they share. In these two books, Malik, Amber, Eli, and Tori are on the run from the Osiris Project whose police force is after them, and they are desperately trying to figure out how they can live their lives with no parents, no birth certificates, no money, and little knowledge of the outside world. The kids discovered this truth in book one and made a dramatic escape. Our four young protagonists are part of a scientific experiment in which they were cloned from notorious criminals and then raised in a utopian society with the hope of proving that nurture would make them good people. ![]() These two books complete the Masterminds trilogy, which is based on a brilliant premise for a middle school story. ![]() Spoiler alert: don't read this review if you haven't already read Masterminds by Gordon Korman. ![]()
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