Matt Killeen
Hardcover | Pages: 423 pages Rating: 3.86 | 3830 Users | 768 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 0451478738 (ISBN13: 9780451478733) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Orphan Monster Spy #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Costa Book Award Nominee for Children's (2018) |
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A Jewish girl-turned-spy must infiltrate an elite Nazi boarding school in this highly commercial, relentlessly nail-biting World War II drama!After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah--blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish--finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see every person like her dead. Then Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons. He's a spy, and he needs Sarah to become one, too, to pull off a mission he can't attempt on his own: infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of top Nazi brass, befriend the daughter of a key scientist, and steal the blueprints to a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe. With years of training from her actress mother in the art of impersonation, Sarah thinks she's ready. But nothing prepares her for her cutthroat schoolmates, and soon she finds herself in a battle for survival unlike any she'd ever imagined.
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| Title | : | Orphan Monster Spy (Orphan Monster Spy #1) |
| Author | : | Matt Killeen |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 423 pages |
| Published | : | March 20th 2018 by Viking Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Thriller. War |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 3830 Users | 768 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books Orphan Monster Spy (Orphan Monster Spy #1)
I was completely immersed in this story of a 15 year old Jewish girl who agrees to become a spy in the battle to defeat Hitler. I may be suffering burn out from reading too many books set in this time period, but this was a new World War II plot for me. The book begins with the murder of Sarah's mother at a checkpoint. Orphaned, terrified and with no identity papers, Sarah starts to run. She encounters a man with an unidentifiable accent and the two manage to rescue each other. She comes to knowI did not see this author/book coming and I was completely blown away! I'm not even sure where I saw it or why I decided to read it, but I am so glad I did. This is YA historical fiction, but it really didn't feel that way. There was nothing light or easy about this particular book. The book also has a young Jewish heroine like in a former work I just finished reading (Resistance by Jennifer Chiaverini), however, to me, they felt miles apart in every way.Definitely, disturbing and chilling, but
I really enjoyed this book. It's out of my comfort zone of fantasy and science fiction being a historical fiction but it's bloody good. Some parts were hard to read (subject matter not anything bad on the writers part) but it was compelling. I loved Sarah so much and am actually really looking forward to her next mission. Highly recommend 4 and a half stars.
This is an emotional and heart-pounding story!
Exciting , thrilling, funny, sad a little predictable but what a strong and fierce character Sarah is.Full review to follow
I was completely immersed in this story of a 15 year old Jewish girl who agrees to become a spy in the battle to defeat Hitler. I may be suffering burn out from reading too many books set in this time period, but this was a new World War II plot for me. The book begins with the murder of Sarah's mother at a checkpoint. Orphaned, terrified and with no identity papers, Sarah starts to run. She encounters a man with an unidentifiable accent and the two manage to rescue each other. She comes to know
Another version of this review can be found @ The Regal Critiques.Received in exchange for an honest review from Usborne Publishing UK.Set during the outbreak of the World War Two, Orphan Monster Spy follows the story of Sarah, a German Jewish orphan who loses everything one fateful night and then falls into the company of a British agent. Said agent picks up on Sarah's skills (her Aryan appearance helps) and decides to send her to an exclusive girl's boarding school in 1939 Nazi Germany in
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