Description
Orphan Monster Spy Hardcover
– Import, 20 March 2018
by Matt Killeen (Author)
- Publisher : Viking Books for Young Readers (20 March 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 432 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0451478738
- ISBN-13 : 9780451478733
- Reading age : 12 – 17 years
- Item Weight : 636 g
- Dimensions : 16.36 x 3.02 x 23.65 cm
Review
“A stunning, smart, grounded tale of intrigue in Nazi Germany, so guilty and detailed it feels like true memory rather than fiction. Sarah is an angry, appealing, heart-wrenching hero, superhuman and achingly frail in equal measure. I wish I’d written this myself. Deeply disturbing and chillingly good.”—Elizabeth Wein, New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity
“I found myself mesmerized by Sarah’s journey into a world of human monsters. Orphan Monster Spy weaves one heroine’s courage through a spectrum of darkness, and the effects resonate long after the final page.” —Ryan Graudin, award-winning author of the Wolf By Wolf duology
“Killeen expertly conjures the day-to-day evil of Nazi Germany in this terrific page turner.”—Paul Dowswell, award-winning author of The Auslander
“A powerful, bleak, and penetrating portrait of an isolated young woman excelling in unimaginable danger.”—Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Reviews
3.8 rating based on 7,875 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0451478738
ISBN-13: 9780451478733
Goodreads: 35575184
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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.
