The Book Shelf: The Arctic Incident

Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer

277 Pages

Young Adult

Summary

The second Artmeis Fowl book almost completely switches gears from the first. Instead of Artemis being the bad guy, he is not turned into the LEPs one last chance for help. When the LEP are ambused by goblins with banned technology, Holly immediately suspects that Artemis Fowl is the one to blame. Mean while, Artemis has just discovered that his father is alive and is probably being held by the Russian Mofia. On his way to rescue his father, he is kidnapped by the LEP and taken under ground. When he has been cleared from all involvement, he requisitions help from the LEP in his father's reasque attempt in exchange for his help with their goblin problem. When all fairy technology fails, Foaly is then thought to be the one in charge of the goblin uprising when in reality he is locked in his laboratory without access to any of his instruments. Only with the help of Mulch Diggums are Artemis, Butler, Holly, and Root able to break in to Opal Koboi's office building (the real mastermind behind the attack). With Foaly's help in secretly recording Cudgeon stating that he was only using Opal in order to take revenge on the LEP, the group was able to turn both Opal and the Goblin masses against their leader. Artemis gets to Russia and with the help of the LEP are able to rescue Artemis Fowl I.

The Original Purpose

This blog actually originated as a class assignment. The first "younger reading" class I took had each student create a different note card for every book they read. The note card was to have all of the information on the book as well as a brief summary and our reaction to what we read. With my children's literature class being the second class that required a similar assignment, I decided that a blog was more practical than trying to find some place to store several hundred 3x5 notecards. Thus the birth of "The Book Shelf." I hope you enjoy my insights.