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I am number four

the lost files : rebel allies

by Pittacus Lore

Published 2015403 pagesISBN 978-0-0623-6404-3

The perfect companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, this book contains three action-packed stories that were originally published separately as digital novellas. You know the truth about John Smith, aka Number Four. Yet there is still so much that you don't know. The stories in the Lost Files will help you get the answers you seek, but they will not help you stop the coming war. Only the Garde can save our planet. In rural Ohio, a beautiful girl proves distracting to a 15-year-old who has hidden on Earth for 10 years waiting to develop the powers he needs to rejoin the other surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians. The plot contains violence. Book #1

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Science Fiction, Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction · Science Fiction · Nonfiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Urgent pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Who it may suit

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA standard-length read403 pages in this edition
Publication eraContemporaryFirst published or edition dated 2015
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Science Fiction and Nonfiction
ISBN-13
978-0-0623-6404-3
Language
English
Edition record
OL27188983M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.