Author: Robin Benway
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802733913
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling, National Book Award winning author Robin Benway comes the first book in a hilarious and romantic duology about a normal girl . . . who just so happens to be a spy. Being a 16-year-old safecracker and active-duty daughter of international spies has its moments, good and bad. Pros: Seeing the world one crime-solving adventure at a time. Having parents with super cool jobs. Cons: Never staying in one place long enough to have friends or a boyfriend. But for Maggie Silver, the biggest perk of all has been avoiding high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. Then Maggie and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, and all of that changes. She'll need to attend a private school, avoid the temptation to hack the school's security system, and befriend one aggravatingly cute Jesse Oliver to gain the essential information she needs to crack the case . . . all while trying not to blow her cover.
Also Known As
Author: Robin Benway
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802733913
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling, National Book Award winning author Robin Benway comes the first book in a hilarious and romantic duology about a normal girl . . . who just so happens to be a spy. Being a 16-year-old safecracker and active-duty daughter of international spies has its moments, good and bad. Pros: Seeing the world one crime-solving adventure at a time. Having parents with super cool jobs. Cons: Never staying in one place long enough to have friends or a boyfriend. But for Maggie Silver, the biggest perk of all has been avoiding high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. Then Maggie and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, and all of that changes. She'll need to attend a private school, avoid the temptation to hack the school's security system, and befriend one aggravatingly cute Jesse Oliver to gain the essential information she needs to crack the case . . . all while trying not to blow her cover.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802733913
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling, National Book Award winning author Robin Benway comes the first book in a hilarious and romantic duology about a normal girl . . . who just so happens to be a spy. Being a 16-year-old safecracker and active-duty daughter of international spies has its moments, good and bad. Pros: Seeing the world one crime-solving adventure at a time. Having parents with super cool jobs. Cons: Never staying in one place long enough to have friends or a boyfriend. But for Maggie Silver, the biggest perk of all has been avoiding high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. Then Maggie and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, and all of that changes. She'll need to attend a private school, avoid the temptation to hack the school's security system, and befriend one aggravatingly cute Jesse Oliver to gain the essential information she needs to crack the case . . . all while trying not to blow her cover.
Also Known As
Author: Robin Benway
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802733905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the hilarious and poignant author of Audrey, Wait! comes a fast-paced caper perfect for fans of Ally Carter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802733905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the hilarious and poignant author of Audrey, Wait! comes a fast-paced caper perfect for fans of Ally Carter
Also Known As Harper
Author: Ann Haywood Leal
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429935715
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn't surprising, seeing as how she's named after her mama's favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up and walked out, leaving them broke. Then Harper's family gets evicted. With Mama scrambling to find work, Harper has to skip school to care for her little brother, Hemingway. Their lives have been turned upside down, which Harper could just about handle—if it wasn't for the writing contest at school. If only she could get up on that stage and read her poems out loud . . .
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429935715
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Harper Lee Morgan is an aspiring poet, which isn't surprising, seeing as how she's named after her mama's favorite writer, Harper Lee. And life is giving her a lot to write about just now. Daddy up and walked out, leaving them broke. Then Harper's family gets evicted. With Mama scrambling to find work, Harper has to skip school to care for her little brother, Hemingway. Their lives have been turned upside down, which Harper could just about handle—if it wasn't for the writing contest at school. If only she could get up on that stage and read her poems out loud . . .
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Author: Judy Blume
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101564083
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret Sheila, who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs. When her family spends the summer in Tarrytown, Sheila has to face some of her worst fears. Not only does a dog come with the rented house, but her parents expect Sheila to take swimming lessons! Sheila does her best to pretend she's an expert at everything, but she knows she isn't fooling her new best friend, Mouse Ellis, who happens to be a crackerjack swimmer and a dog lover. What will it take for Sheila to admit to the Tarrytown kids -- and to herself -- that she's only human?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101564083
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret Sheila, who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs. When her family spends the summer in Tarrytown, Sheila has to face some of her worst fears. Not only does a dog come with the rented house, but her parents expect Sheila to take swimming lessons! Sheila does her best to pretend she's an expert at everything, but she knows she isn't fooling her new best friend, Mouse Ellis, who happens to be a crackerjack swimmer and a dog lover. What will it take for Sheila to admit to the Tarrytown kids -- and to herself -- that she's only human?
Also Known as DNA
Author: Kelli Jae Baeli
Publisher: Kelli Jae Baeli
ISBN: 1450599109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Newly ensconced in the house on Manor Lane, Jobeth and Phoebe are enjoying the city of Lakewood, Colorado and Jobeth's newly licensed AKA Investigations. After a fresh start in the Denver Metro region, life seems idyllic and full of promise. The dream is soon shattered by ghosts from the past, appearing to tear the fabric of love and trust. With the company of their friend, Detective Ginger Grant, a crecendoing battle of survival will test their courage, as they discover the darker permutations of DNA.
Publisher: Kelli Jae Baeli
ISBN: 1450599109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Newly ensconced in the house on Manor Lane, Jobeth and Phoebe are enjoying the city of Lakewood, Colorado and Jobeth's newly licensed AKA Investigations. After a fresh start in the Denver Metro region, life seems idyllic and full of promise. The dream is soon shattered by ghosts from the past, appearing to tear the fabric of love and trust. With the company of their friend, Detective Ginger Grant, a crecendoing battle of survival will test their courage, as they discover the darker permutations of DNA.
Going Rogue: an Also Known As Novel
Author: Robin Benway
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802736041
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In this thrilling sequel to Also Known As, Maggie must expose corruption in the Collective...before her family becomes their next target.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802736041
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In this thrilling sequel to Also Known As, Maggie must expose corruption in the Collective...before her family becomes their next target.
Also Known as Elvis
Author: James Howe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442445106
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
While his friends Bobby, Joe, and Addie are spending the summer on exciting adventures, thirteen-year-old Skeezie Tookis must get a job and help around the house, and things only get worse when his long-lost father appears.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442445106
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
While his friends Bobby, Joe, and Addie are spending the summer on exciting adventures, thirteen-year-old Skeezie Tookis must get a job and help around the house, and things only get worse when his long-lost father appears.
Working the Room
Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847679668
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847679668
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.
Otherwise Known as Possum
Author: Maria D. Laso
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545931940
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A heart-expanding debut that introduces the most charming, mischievous, unforgettable heroine since Scout Finch. Possum Porter has had it with change. First she lost Mama, leaving a hole nothing can fill. And now, instead of trying to return to some kind of normal, Daddy's sending Possum to school. A real school, where you have to wear SHOES. Where some Yankee teacher will try to erase all the useful things Mama taught Possum during their lessons at home.So Possum comes up with a plan. If she can prove that she already knows everything worth knowing, Daddy will let her quit school and stay where she belongs. She won't have to deal with snooty classmates, or worry about tarnishing Mama's memory. But unfortunately, Possum doesn't shoot to the top of the class like she expected. Even worse, the unmarried Yankee teacher seems to have her eyes on someone . . . Possum's Daddy. With time running out, Possum decides to do something drastic to get away from school-and get Daddy out of Ms. Arthington's clutches-or risk losing everything that's keeping her broken heart glued together.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545931940
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A heart-expanding debut that introduces the most charming, mischievous, unforgettable heroine since Scout Finch. Possum Porter has had it with change. First she lost Mama, leaving a hole nothing can fill. And now, instead of trying to return to some kind of normal, Daddy's sending Possum to school. A real school, where you have to wear SHOES. Where some Yankee teacher will try to erase all the useful things Mama taught Possum during their lessons at home.So Possum comes up with a plan. If she can prove that she already knows everything worth knowing, Daddy will let her quit school and stay where she belongs. She won't have to deal with snooty classmates, or worry about tarnishing Mama's memory. But unfortunately, Possum doesn't shoot to the top of the class like she expected. Even worse, the unmarried Yankee teacher seems to have her eyes on someone . . . Possum's Daddy. With time running out, Possum decides to do something drastic to get away from school-and get Daddy out of Ms. Arthington's clutches-or risk losing everything that's keeping her broken heart glued together.
Also Known as Rowan Pohi
Author: Ralph J. Fletcher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
After impulsively lying his way into an elite preparatory school, sophomore Bobby Steele hopes to escape the shame of his father's well-publicized incarceration but keeps waiting for his secret to be revealed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
After impulsively lying his way into an elite preparatory school, sophomore Bobby Steele hopes to escape the shame of his father's well-publicized incarceration but keeps waiting for his secret to be revealed.