Sniper

by Theodore Taylor

Book Overview

When Ben's parents go to Africa, they leave the fourteen-year-old in charge of the family's wild animal preserve. Everything seems to be running smoothly until one night when the silence is broken by the sound of peacocks screeching. When Ben leaves the house to investigate, he sees a terrifying sight: two lions shot dead from bullets sent straight to their hearts. Someone is out there, someone with a score to settle . . . and there's no telling who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152061533
• ISBN13: 9780152061531
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

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

Sniper is a mystery about a teenage kid who grows up with different kinds of large cats. Hardly anyone in Californis(where they moved) liked the idea of Ben Jepson, his family, and the different cats moving in their town. Ben's parents have left the "cat farm" to go to Africa. Ben is there all alone except for two people(and their family)who live there. Now a sniper has come in, and this isn't good news for Ben. I think that Sniper by Theodore Taylor was one of the best books I have ever read. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a great mystery.

Sniper

I thought the book Sniper by Theodore Talor was a good book. It was also a good atventure. It is about a boy and his parent who started a wildlife preserve. When they moed in the nabors didn't like them a hole lot. One morning They found two lions shot dead. Find out who did it by reading the book.

Good Book

I think the book Sniper should be read by people who love animals. It shows how much a kid loves the lions that he is raising. It shows how he takes charge when a Sniper shoots three lions and a cheetah.

PUT THIS BOOK IN YOUR SIGHTS.

BEN'S PARENTS GO ON A TRIP TO AFRICA AND HE IS LEFT ALONE TO TAKE CARE OF THE BIG CATS ON HIS FAMILY'S PROPERTY. THEN A SNIPER COMES AND STARTS SHOOTING THE CATS ONE BY ONE. ONE TIME HE STARTS A WILD FIRE TRYING TO KILL THE CATS. HE DOES THIS TO GET REVENGE ON BEN'S FATHER FOR TESTIFYING AGAINST HIM IN COURT. BEN MUST FIND OUT WHO THE SNIPER IS AND FIND HIM BEFORE ALL THE CATS ARE DEAD. THIS BOOK KEPT ME TURNING PAGES INTO THE LATE HOURS OF THE NIGHT.