Tyler Reynolds's Blog - Posts Tagged "spy-school"
Watch Your Back
If you like spies, you'll like Spy School Secret Service by Stuart Gibbs. This is the 5th book in the series, but I had no trouble starting there. You're inside the head of the main character, a spy kid called Ben Ripley. His thoughts give you enough of an idea what happened in previous books that you might decide to check out the others. Even if you don't, this book is fun. The action takes place inside and under famous tourist sites in Washington D.C. like the White House, the Washington Monument, the Pentagon, and the Smithsonian.
The spy kid characters are fun and I was pretty invested in some of the relationships. I also liked that the main character wasn't actually good at fighting, so he had to emphasize other skills.
It takes all kinds to make a spy team, you know.
You learn some neat insider spy stuff like how to infiltrate a high security area and how to contact your team over a tapped phone line without getting them in trouble. And, like the best spy stories, the real question is "Who can you trust?" There's plenty of backstabbing and double-agent-ing among both the kids and the adults. So, watch your six.
On the Dudes Summer Book Bingo card, here's how this book qualifies:
AWESOME GIRL (Ben's partner, Erica), I LEARNED SOMETHING, or HOW WE ROCK (the Dudes and I combine skills like this all the time!).
Find the bingo card here:
https://emilykayjohnson.com/TheDudesC...
The spy kid characters are fun and I was pretty invested in some of the relationships. I also liked that the main character wasn't actually good at fighting, so he had to emphasize other skills.
It takes all kinds to make a spy team, you know.
You learn some neat insider spy stuff like how to infiltrate a high security area and how to contact your team over a tapped phone line without getting them in trouble. And, like the best spy stories, the real question is "Who can you trust?" There's plenty of backstabbing and double-agent-ing among both the kids and the adults. So, watch your six.
On the Dudes Summer Book Bingo card, here's how this book qualifies:
AWESOME GIRL (Ben's partner, Erica), I LEARNED SOMETHING, or HOW WE ROCK (the Dudes and I combine skills like this all the time!).
Find the bingo card here:
https://emilykayjohnson.com/TheDudesC...
