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Spy Girls #1
License to Thrill
A new series for adolescents brings together Jo, Caylin, and Theresa, three teens with nothing in common, who are brought together to form the Spy Girls, and who on their first mission travel to London to stop a mad bomber. Original.
192 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1998
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Elizabeth Cage
11 books9 followersElizabeth Cage is the pseudonym of a noted young adult author. Her true identity and current whereabouts are classified.
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May 17, 2017
This was one of the books I saved from my pre-teen-hood. I absolutely loved the glamorous girls on the cover, and the idea of three sixteen-year-olds working undercover to save the USA was fascinating to me.
License to Thrill is the first of the Spy Girls series, and it is a fun, easy read that can be enjoyed in an airplane or on the treadmill. Three beautiful, sassy, incredibly intelligent teenage girls travel to London on a super-secret mission. If you’re a teen or pre-teen, the adventures will be suspenseful, and the little love interests will seem extremely important. For older readers, I wouldn’t really recommend this one; when I returned to this childhood favorite, it had lost most of its luster.
As a side note, this book was published in 1998, and the amount of ‘90s references are off-the-charts. If you grew up in the ‘90s, the blasts of pop culture will amuse you to no end.
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License to Thrill is the first of the Spy Girls series, and it is a fun, easy read that can be enjoyed in an airplane or on the treadmill. Three beautiful, sassy, incredibly intelligent teenage girls travel to London on a super-secret mission. If you’re a teen or pre-teen, the adventures will be suspenseful, and the little love interests will seem extremely important. For older readers, I wouldn’t really recommend this one; when I returned to this childhood favorite, it had lost most of its luster.
As a side note, this book was published in 1998, and the amount of ‘90s references are off-the-charts. If you grew up in the ‘90s, the blasts of pop culture will amuse you to no end.
http://hottoastyrag.weebly.com/spy-gi...
October 23, 2025
Do you remember the TV show "Charlie's Angels"? Well, this is a thinly disguised book about them. Three glamorous 19 year old young ladies, an unseen boss and mentor named "Uncle Sam", a spy network named The Tower, and some exciting spy adventures. They have gadgets that James Bond would envy. The girls are Caylin Pike, Theresa Hearth, and Jo Carreras. The girls went to what they thought was an East Coast college, but instead was a school to train spies. Not much is told about their families, except that Jo's father, a Judge, was murdered on the street and she's an orphan, and Theresa's mother is a well-known designer.
This first book takes place in London where the girl's mission is to infiltrate the US Embassy, where a murdered Special Agent hid a list of nuclear warheads before his demise. There's plenty of action and danger. The book moves along smoothly.
This first book takes place in London where the girl's mission is to infiltrate the US Embassy, where a murdered Special Agent hid a list of nuclear warheads before his demise. There's plenty of action and danger. The book moves along smoothly.
March 24, 2015
I love teen spy fiction - Gallagher Girls, Also Known As - so I expected to be delighted by this book. Instead I barely made it through. The main characters alienated me from the start by being giggling, boy-obsessed twits. I was appalled at the spy agency "supporting" them. The girls had to flirt their way through customs?! Their "mentor" lurked around suspiciously so the girls saw but didn't get assistance?! They weren't given details about their cover stories so they had to make it up on the fly?! Even if they were adults these things would be unbelievable in a spy novel. Yes, people get into situations in spy novels where they have to punt but NONE of the things I'm describing were situations like that.
August 5, 2014
As a kid I enjoyed the idea of kick-ass teen girls as spies. This was a neat introduction to the series.
As an adult, I don't think spies would only go out on 4 months of training, especially on so important a mission, but it was a neat trip down memory lane.
As an adult, I don't think spies would only go out on 4 months of training, especially on so important a mission, but it was a neat trip down memory lane.
October 27, 2015
It has everything you could want in a spy novel :)
An enjoyable quick read if you want to read about 3 friends experiencing a new and exciting world together. And saving it at the same time. Am definitely going to read the next one :)
An enjoyable quick read if you want to read about 3 friends experiencing a new and exciting world together. And saving it at the same time. Am definitely going to read the next one :)
June 13, 2015
3.5 (but i wil round this to a 4)
This a light and read with HUGE spacing and I read it in 3.5 hours.
This a light and read with HUGE spacing and I read it in 3.5 hours.
April 17, 2017
This book is quite thrilled. Each page i reach fills me thrill. Also make me read even longer hours I actually want to read. Totally awesome.
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