The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges (Fowl Twins Series #2)

by Eoin Colfer

Overview

The second Fowl Twins adventure, a spinoff of the blockbuster Artemis Fowl series, starts with a bang—literally.


*"Like its bestselling progenitors, a nonstop spinoff afroth with high tech, spectacular magic, and silly business."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)


Artemis's little brothers Myles and Beckett borrow the Fowl jet without permission, and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder, the pixie-elf hybrid Lazuli Heitz, are lucky to escape with their lives.


The Fowl parents and fairy police force decide that enough is enough and the twins are placed under house arrest. But Myles has questions like: Who was tracking the Fowl jet? Why would someone want to blow them out of the sky? What is the bigger picture? These questions must infuriate someone, because Myles is abducted and spirited away from his twin.


Beckett and Lazuli must collaborate to find Myles and rescue him. Their chase will take them across continents, deep underground, and into subacquatic super villain lairs. They will be shot at, covered in spit, and be at the receiving end of some quite nasty dwarf sarcasm.


Will Beckett be able to come up with a genius plan without a genius on hand?


With the Fowl Twins, master storyteller Eoin Colfer delivers everything that made millions of readers around the globe fall in love with the Artemis Fowl books.



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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781368045049
Publisher:	Disney Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/20/2020
Series:	Artemis Fowl Series , #2
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	465,939
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Eoin Colfer is the author of the New York Times best-selling Artemis Fowl series, which was adapted into a major motion picture from the Walt Disney Studios, and two Fowl Twins spin-off books. He also wrote the critically acclaimed WARP trilogy, and many other titles for young readers and adults, including Highfire, Iron Man: The Gauntlet, Airman, Half Moon Investigations, Eoin Colfer's Legend of . . . books, The Wish List, Benny and Omar; and Benny and Babe. In 2014, he was named Ireland's laureate for children's literature. He lives with his wife and two sons in Dublin, Ireland. To learn more, visit www.eoincolfer.com. He is also on Twitter and Instagram @EoinColfer.

Hometown:

Wexford Town, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland

Date of Birth:

May 14, 1965

Place of Birth:

Waterford City, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland

Education:

Bachelor of Education, 1986; Education Diploma, 1987

Website:

http://www.eoincolfer.com

Editorial Reviews

"Colfer . . . strings dazzling displays of high tech, heartwarming peeks at the family dynamics of the closely knit if decidedly eccentric Fowl clan, dolphin-back rides, huge blobs of slime (some of it explosive), and a climactic exhibition of prejudice gone off the rails. More high octane Fowl play."—Kirkus Reviews

"Colfer's clever spin-off of the Artemis Fowl series focuses on Artemis Fowl's twin younger brothers-hyperintelligent Myles and near-feral Beckett, both 11. Colfer's trademark tongue-in-cheek narrative voice is on full display, his characters existing in a preposterous balance between sincerity and absurdity, mad science, and technology. Tthis series opener is accessible and entertaining: the fast-paced plot, filled with unexpected betrayals, death-defying feats, and secret train cars, will appeal to Fowl readers established and new."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Like its bestselling progenitors, a nonstop spinoff afroth with high tech, spectacular magic, and silly business."—Kirkus (starred review)

"Make way for a new generation of Fowl adventures and fans."—Booklist

"Fans of the Artemis Fowl novels will not be disappointed with this first novel of the spinoff series. Colfer's razor sharp wit and fast-paced writing will keep readers engaged, entertained and grinning at the puns. High tech spy gadgets blend sci-fi elements to this fantasy novel."—School Library Connection

From the Publisher

11/20/2020

Gr 3–7—The second of this "Artemis Fowl" spin-off series doesn't hit the same funny bone as its 2019 predecessor, The Fowl Twins, but fans of Myles and Beckett will enjoy their time with the goofiness anyway. In this installment, the white, male Irish twins' parents put them under house arrest in their mansion, which only works until Myles gets kidnapped and Beckett goes to the rescue. This book's villains, an ambitious dwarf family, aren't nearly as hilarious as the bad guy of the first book, although what they can accomplish with spit and farts is impressively creative. Action sequences are bogged down with distractingly long, multi-paragraph explanations of backstory and world-building. Myles' cleverness remains to be marveled at, as is Beckett's physical prowess. There are some rather spectacular flatulence and magic technological feats along the way. Other than the dwarves, there are no new characters, nor are there any fabulous locations. VERDICT Recommended only for those who intend to stay through the whole series.—Rhona Campbell, Georgetown Day Sch., Washington, DC

School Library Journal

2020-08-18
A scheme to inveigle Artemis Fowl’s younger sibs into helping steal a huge trove of gold doesn’t go at all well for the schemers.

Introduced in Fowl Twins (2019), 12-year-olds Myles and Beckett kick off their second round of exploits, dealing in midair with a guided missile to which their hybrid pixie-elf chaperone Lazuli Heitz has been strapped, then go through a series of equally ridiculous captures and rescues to several showdowns with bad guys, saving not only tons of gold, but thousands of Irish teens at a flash convention from the vengeance of a maddened, human-hating warrior dwarf. How, you ask? By employing a unique skein of complementary abilities: Myles, as dapper and at least as egotistic as his older brother, brings the mental wattage, and Beckett supplies the clever hands, unexcelled martial prowess, and a gift of tongues that extends to animals and plants. Along an improbably daft plotline that even the seldom-reflective Beckett finds “fart-centric,” Colfer also strings dazzling displays of high tech, heartwarming peeks at the family dynamics of the closely knit if decidedly eccentric Fowl clan, dolphin-back rides, huge blobs of slime (some of it explosive), and a climactic exhibition of prejudice gone off the rails that is intense enough to leave readers queasy. As a teaser for future adventures, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, arch archvillain from the previous volume, pops up for a cameo at the close. The human cast presents as White.

More high-octane Fowl play. (Fantasy. 10-12)

Kirkus Reviews