A Dangerous Secret

A Dangerous Secret

By Ian Bone

Pages: 192

ISBN: 0385732104

Genre: Sci-Fi

Setting: This takes place in two worlds, New York City at a special high school made for future film people, Capra Video High School. It also takes place in the world of the Vidz.

Hamish is a typical high school freshman that just so happens to be going to the school of his dreams, Capra Video High. There is only one problem, he is the new guy. He doesn’t have many friends and like most new kids has something everyone can make fun of him for. Hamish has written a paper in which he says, “watching a good film is his favorite thing t do, because sometimes living in the film would be better than living the life he has.” Those words is what ends him up in Vidz. Hamish is elected to become first director. In this film he is the director, actor, and producer. Once he pushes play he enters an alternate universe that parallels real life. Now Hamish has the tasks of beating the bad guy and finding the three other directors. I liked this book because it had an equal balance between Sci-Fi and reality. I would recommend it to a struggling reader because it was an interesting read that wasn’t too hard to understand. And it is the first in the series so hopefully the student would like to keep going.