Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Spy School Goes Wild by Stuart Gibbs - ESSENTIAL

Spy School Goes Wild by Stuart Gibbs, 307 pages. Simon and Schuster, 2024. $19. 

Language: G (0 swears,  0 “f”); Mature Content: G (kisses); Violence: PG (bad guys, shooting, danger)

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS - ESSENTIAL

APPEALS TO: MANY

How did their inept Spy School principal track Ben and the others to their remote Alaskan hideout? It doesn’t matter much when it turns out that Murray Hill has escaped prison again and is teaming up with Ashley for another dastardly crime. Only Ben is going, and so only Ben is the one walking into a trap. Ben may have hated all of the survival training he’s been forced through these last months, but that training is exactly what he will need to stay alive.

Dare I hope this is the last time we will see Murray Hill? I sure hope so. If it weren’t for Gibbs’s commitment to Ben having a single arch nemesis, I would personally enjoy his adventures so much more. Plenty of danger, fast-thinking, and great friends to come to the rescue. 

Ben and his friends default white.

Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS



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