Mission: Spy Force Revealed

by Deborah Abela, George O'Connor (Illustrator)

Overview

Who can outsmart the dastardly Mr. Blue?
None other than Max Remy, superspy!

Can't get enough of Max Remy? She's back, with her friend Linden at her side, and they're off on a new adventure as they hone their spy skills.

Now a full-fledged member of Spy Force, Max finds herself up against the sinister Mr. Blue again. In a desperate effort to get the Time and Space Machine for himself, Mr. Blue is attempting to turn the world's children into zombies. Only Max Remy, superspy, can outsmart Mr. Blue and save the world from a terrible, unthinkable fate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439113820
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Publication date:	05/11/2010
Series:	Spy Force , #2
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Deborah Abela is an award-winning author. Her awards include the USBBY Outstanding International Book Award, KOALA, YABBA,  Aurealis and Speech Pathology Award and the Maurice Saxby Award for service to children’s literature. She is also a Room to Read author advocate. Her titles include the Max Remy series, Bear in Space and The Book of Wondrous Possibilities.

George O’Connor is the creator of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series Olympians, in addition to serving as the illustrator of the Captain Awesome series. He is also the author and illustrator of the picture books Kapow!, Ker-splash, and If I Had a Triceratops. He resides in his secret Brooklyn, New York, hideout, where he uses his amazing artistic powers to strike fear in the hearts of bad guys everywhere!

Editorial Reviews

Gr 4-7-Max(ine) Remy, 11, is a typical, if unusually klutzy kid, stuck in a new school with no friends, a mother with a new boyfriend, and a negative attitude about everything. In this installment in the series, while visiting her aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania, she and Linden are invited to visit the Spy Force headquarters in London, where they will be made full-fledged members of the team. An invisible jet whisks them to England, where they join Ella, another young spy (whose friendship with Linden drives Max crazy with jealousy) and the entire cast of mad scientists and chefs who run the organization. They are given a mission: to stop evil Mr. Blue from controlling the minds of all children. Max soon realizes that being a spy doesn't immediately solve all of her problems, most of which hinge on the fact that she is a negative person with almost no sense of humor. The tale moves along at a brisk pace and has lots of fun details. Fans of the "Spy Kids" franchise and Roald Dahl's imaginative worlds will find much to like, despite a heroine who needs to lighten up a bit.-Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

Falling off considerably from the promise of its previous episode (p. 729), this second "Spy Kid"-style mission focuses less on subjecting Max and her mooning sidekicks Ella and Linden to any credible threat or danger than on heaping preteen miseries onto its surly, klutzy, humorless heroine. Still not bothering to explain how Max's invented counter-espionage agency "Spy Force" could really exist, Abela introduces the Force's newest recruits to a warren of secret labs inhabited by quirky staff, then sends them once again to battle the sinister Mr. Blue, who has this time turned into a sort of Willy Wonka gone bad. But to get to the adventure part, readers will have to wade through chapters of issues, from Max's feelings of neglect and outrage as her clueless Mom takes to simpering over a brassy new boyfriend, to trying to cope with vicious, relentless bullying at school and with flares of jealousy as Linden dotes on a disgustingly nice, capable female colleague. Not even Max's propensity to fall into various kinds of disgusting ick-a running joke in the first volume that the author milks to the point of tedium here-adds any life to this whiny escapade. (Fiction. 10-12)

Kirkus Reviews