100 Millionen Dollar Angebote

David Weinberger is a well known journalist, NPR commentator, and blogger, and this is his first children's novel. The narrator and his friends are middle school students, and the plot is both entertaining and idea-driven: a boy's father is a newspaper man who has a crusade against lotteries, and the boy wins a tremendous amount of money- in the lottery. So the story is about how to hide something from you parents without lying and how to spend and give away lots and lots of money. It also has an amusing sub-sub plot about how kids have to hire grown-ups to front for them in various business situations. It has just the slightest hint of love interest;

Nachdem das Team um Dominic "Dom" Toretto bei der Verhaftung des ehemaligen SAS-Soldaten Owen Shaw geholfen hat, erhalten sie im Gegenzug Straffreiheit für den 100 Millionen Dollar Raub in Rio und können in die Vereinigten Staaten zurückkehren. Das Team vereitelt einen Überfall auf einen Militärkonvoi, bei dem Owen Shaw ums Leben kommt. Jetzt ist sein Bruder Ian auf Rache aus.