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EJ Spy School #1
The Test
The much-loved EJ12 Girl Hero character now stars in a new first chapter series perfect for beginner readers!
EJ Spy School introduces the hugely popular character Emma Jacks as she first joins the secret agency SHINE spy school and starts to train as a SHINE agent.
With careful choice of age appropriate words, concepts, sentence lengths and chapter lengths, EJ Spy School is the perfect series to help build the reading confidence and enjoyment of beginner readers.
Book 2: The Race
Emma Jacks is Agent EJ10. She goes to Spy School! She wants to do well in her first race at Spy School. But then she finds a baby bird that needs help. What should Emma do?
EJ Spy School introduces the hugely popular character Emma Jacks as she first joins the secret agency SHINE spy school and starts to train as a SHINE agent.
With careful choice of age appropriate words, concepts, sentence lengths and chapter lengths, EJ Spy School is the perfect series to help build the reading confidence and enjoyment of beginner readers.
Book 2: The Race
Emma Jacks is Agent EJ10. She goes to Spy School! She wants to do well in her first race at Spy School. But then she finds a baby bird that needs help. What should Emma do?
- GenresChildrens
23 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 23, 2014
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About the author
Susannah McFarlane
132 books67 followersSusannah McFarlane is a successful children’s book author who, after many years working as a publisher, now spends her time writing and creating stories that kids love to read.
She is the creator and writer of the awarding-winning EJ12 Girl Hero series, the creator and co-author of the hugely popular series for boys, Boy vs Beast, and the author of the Little Mates series of alphabet books for under fives.
Susannah, who was also the original concept creator of two of Australia’s leading tween fiction series Go Girl! and Zac Power, understands kids and loves creating stories they enjoy to read. Her understanding and belief in the need for age-appropriate but fun content for kids comes from over twenty years experience as a children’s book publisher and from having worked with some of the world’s leading brands and writers. Susannah actually counts Thomas the Tank Engine, Winnie the Pooh, Tintin, and Enid Blyton as friends, not just former colleagues!
Susannah is also the founding director of Lemonfizz Media, a boutique children’s publisher that focuses on developing a small number of publishing projects across all content platforms, and a speaker on children’s publishing for the RMIT Editing and Publishing course.
She was previously the managing director of Egmont Books UK; the vice-president of the Egmont Group; the co‐owner, managing director and publisher of Hardie Grant Egmont; a contributor to the UK trade journal Publishing News; and the Convenor of the Children’s Publishing Committee and Board Director of the Australian Publishers’ Association.
She is the creator and writer of the awarding-winning EJ12 Girl Hero series, the creator and co-author of the hugely popular series for boys, Boy vs Beast, and the author of the Little Mates series of alphabet books for under fives.
Susannah, who was also the original concept creator of two of Australia’s leading tween fiction series Go Girl! and Zac Power, understands kids and loves creating stories they enjoy to read. Her understanding and belief in the need for age-appropriate but fun content for kids comes from over twenty years experience as a children’s book publisher and from having worked with some of the world’s leading brands and writers. Susannah actually counts Thomas the Tank Engine, Winnie the Pooh, Tintin, and Enid Blyton as friends, not just former colleagues!
Susannah is also the founding director of Lemonfizz Media, a boutique children’s publisher that focuses on developing a small number of publishing projects across all content platforms, and a speaker on children’s publishing for the RMIT Editing and Publishing course.
She was previously the managing director of Egmont Books UK; the vice-president of the Egmont Group; the co‐owner, managing director and publisher of Hardie Grant Egmont; a contributor to the UK trade journal Publishing News; and the Convenor of the Children’s Publishing Committee and Board Director of the Australian Publishers’ Association.
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January 12, 2019
At school EJ had a test and she won it. She told her Mum after school. And then her mum and EJ went to a shop saw A1 . A1 told her she would join a group called 'shine'. A1 showed EJ around. EJ is very clever.
August 20, 2019
Great book
My 6 and 8 year old daughters loved this book, simple and easy to follow, will be getting the other books in the series
My 6 and 8 year old daughters loved this book, simple and easy to follow, will be getting the other books in the series
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April 23, 2015
A easy reader for 6-9 year olds I guess. I liked the female sky school boss. I liked that being smart at maths is portrayed as awesome for the girl (instead of just appearance and boring stuff like that). Normalising multiple choice tests for 8 year olds? She hates the test but forces herself to do it which results in a happy outcome and success. Not so pleased with that message considering I'd prefer kids to keep being critical about having to do the Naplan and other stupidly narrow tests.
I do like Emma as a character in some ways. Her way of navigating friendship and social anxiety was pretty cool (I think, I mean it was pretty simple).
I do like Emma as a character in some ways. Her way of navigating friendship and social anxiety was pretty cool (I think, I mean it was pretty simple).
August 27, 2018
Enjoyed reading this with my second youngest daughter - one of her 5th birthday presents during the week! She can't read it by herself yet, but now that she's at school it shouldn't be long...
August 15, 2017
A cute easy reader for a beginning reader. It shows a nice girl, Emma, getting rewarded for being smart and good at math. A great alternative to Junie B Jones because Emma's not annoying.
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