Diana Sussman

This is an engaging young adult/middle school mystery. The main character, Maddie, is very into spy stories. She even wants to do an oral presentation on Agent 355 for her history class and has her own theory on the identity of that agent. After a while, it seems Maddie is seeing spies even in her own neighborhood! Is she right? You'll have to read the book to find out.

There's a bit of middle school drama within the pages too. Maddie and her BFF of many years, Rachel, are maturing at different rates and starting to have different interests. Maddie also has a tendency to "jump to conclusions" in some instances and to take unwise actions in others.

There is mention of Maddie and Cooper liking to decode messages and cryptograms though we don't see them do it often in this book. Maddie and Annie do solve one that Maddie thought was Greek (I recognized the alphabet used and didn't think it was Greek.)

Disclosure: I was awarded a free copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers Group. LTER asks for an honest review in return and reviewing books awarded does increase chances of winning in future months's lists.… (mehr)