Hunt, Elizabeth
Singer Battle for the Emerald Buddha: Thailand (Secret Agents Jack and Max
Stalwart #1), 144 pages. Weinstein,
2017. $6. Content: G (some fighting).
Jack and Max have
retired from the Global Protection Force and are on vacation in Thailand with
their unsuspecting parents. Just because
they say they are no longer secret agents, doesn’t mean that intrigue and danger
won’t find them. As they go to view the
Emerald Buddha, a statue sacred to the Thais, instead, they find it missing,
stolen by a group of teens. Jack and Max
are back on the trail of thieves and spies.
I have not read any
of the original series – Secret Agent Jack Stalwart. I’d love to hear from someone who has. At $6 a book, it might be worth buying the
first few books in the original series (there are 16) to see how they do. They are definitely written for a very young
audience. I had a hard time swallowing
that a group of teenagers were crafty enough to steal the Mona Lisa. This particular one would be a okay chapter
book for a 3rd or 4th
grader just reading on their own. I am
very hesitant to suggest buying the complete series, however. Most kids at that age don’t have the staying
capacity to read 17 books.
EL (K-3) –
OPTIONAL. Cindy, Library Teacher
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