The Name Is Kade

by Alan Gibbons, Robbie Gibbons, Eoin Coveney (Illustrator)

A call from Earth brings Kade back from Saturn. His old enemy Zab Hecko is free and intent on destroying the human race. To make things harder, Hecko's had a face transplant. Can Kade find him before it is too late? Told in the style of a Raymond Chandler novel, this is a funny, action-packed sci-fi noir.

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2012

About the author

Alan Gibbons is an author of children's books and a Blue Peter Book Award. He currently lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school. His father was a farm laborer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire where Alan experienced bullying for the first time. He began to write for his pupils as a teacher, but never tried to get any of his work published.

Gibbons trained to be a teacher in his mid-thirties and starting writing short stories for his students. Later, he began to write professionally. In 2000, he won the Blue Peter Book Award in the category "The Book I Couldn't Put Down" category for Shadow of the Minotaur. He was a judge for the 2001 Blue Peter Book Awards. He was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2001 and 2003 and shortlisted twice for the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He has also won the Leicester Book of the Year, the Stockport Book Award, the Angus Book Award, the Catalyst Award, the Birmingham Chills Award, the Salford Young Adult Book Award and the Salford Librarians' Special Award.

Reviews

[Lynda]

The Name is Kade - Alan Gibbons and Robbie Gibbons
'Read On' series: high interest/easy reading

Great, well-paced SCI FI, interesting and written in an easy vernacular. Jack Kade, intergalactic bounty hunter, must get the alien who intends to destroy the earth. Zab Hekko, 'an ugly slab of pure evil, almost succeeds - but Jack Kade is too good.

Hear the author reading the first chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZtA...