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Gallagher Girls

February 11, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Tween Book Review: I’d Tell You That I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

This book is about a girl named Cammie Morgan. She goes to a school called the Gallagher Academy. I know your probably thinking so a school for stuck up snobs. Whoo hoo!?! But this is not a ordinary school. No this is a school for SPIES! (The school is only for girls.) Her teacher sends […]

February 7, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Booktalk This! Spy stories

I’ve had spies on the mind this week, as one of my favorite books of last year, Code Name Verityby Elizabeth Wein, received a Printz Honor (an award recognizing excellence in teen literature). In Code Name Verity, a young female spy writes for her life, sharing secrets with her German torturers in France during World […]

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