Raven’s Gate

1. Raven’s Gate Anthony Horowitz

2. Plot • Matt Freeman is a fourteen year old boy who lives in Ipswich with his aunt, Gwenda Davis. • While living with his aunt, he breaks into a warehouse with his “friend”, Kelvin • After they get caught, Matt is sent to Yorkshire on the L.E.A.F Project, which involves sending troubled children into the countryside to get away from city temptations

3. Plot cont. • Matt's foster parent is a woman named Jayne Deverill, who lives on a farm with a strange farmhand named Noah • When Matt goes down to the nearby village on an errand for Mrs. Deverill he receives a warning from an odd man. He warns him to get away from Lesser Malling before it is too late

4. Plot cont. • So Matt tries to escape, and while trying to find some money he goes into Mrs. Deverill's bedroom and finds a copy of the police report detailing his parents' deaths and his “special” powers. • Matt tries to escape Hive Hall by stealing Mrs. Deverill's bike

5. Plot cont. • He tries to ride away, but finds it impossible to escape, because which ever way he goes, he always ends up back at the same intersection in the forest he started at. • He hears strange whispers and sees a light in the trees. • After a while, he discovers Omega One, an abandoned nuclear power station.

6. In the woods, he meets the odd man from Lesser Malling again. The man introduces himself as Tom Burgess. He gives Matt a charm that prevents him from going in circles like before, and tells Matt to meet him at his house the next day. • Matt visits his house the next day and finds Tom Burgess murdered, with the words "Raven's Gate" painted on the wall in red. Matt runs away as fast as possible, then finds the police and tells them what he saw.

7. They go back to the house where a woman named Miss Creevy says that Tom Burgess has gone to work with his sheep. He shows the police officers the scene where he saw Tom Burgess's body, but finds nothing. The words painted on the wall have been painted over! • To get information about Raven's Gate, he finds a book by someone called Elizabeth Ashwood, but the chapter on Raven's Gate is ripped out.

8. When he searches on the Internet, an “IM” box appears, and a man called Professor Sanjay Dravid talks to him. • The librarian them tells Matt to go to the Greater Malling Gazette to find articles on Raven's Gate, and there he meets Richard Cole, a journalist working there.

9. Matt tells his story to him, but Cole doesn't believe him. And when he leaves the Gazette he finds Mrs. Deverill waiting for him with Noah. They forcefully take Matt back to Hive Hall. • Later that night he sees Omega One glowing again.