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Orphan Monster Spy

Orphan Monster Spy

by Matt Killeen (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

    $11.68
Synopsis

After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lock box full of weapons. He's part of the secret resistance against the Third Reich, and he needs Sarah to hide in plain sight at a school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them. If she can befriend the daughter of a key scientist and get invited to her house, she might be able to steal the blueprints to a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe. Nothing could prepare Sarah for her cutthroat schoolmates, and soon she finds herself in a battle for survival unlike any she'd ever imagined. But anyone who underestimates this innocent-seeming girl does so at their peril. She may look sweet, but she's the Nazis' worst nightmare.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 432
 Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Published: 01 Apr 2018
ISBN 10: 0451478738
ISBN 13: 9780451478733

Media Reviews
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

Author Bio
Matt Killeen was born in Birmingham, in the UK, back when trousers were wide and everything was brown. Early instruction in his craft included being told that a drawing of a Cylon exploding isn't writing and copying-out your mother's payslip isn't an essay about my family. Several alternative careers beckoned, some involving laser guns and guitars, before he finally returned to words and attempted to make a living as an advertising copywriter and largely ignored music and sports journalist. He now writes for the world's best loved toy company, as it wasn't possible to be an X-wing pilot. Married to his Nuyorican soul mate, he is parent to both an unfeasibly clever teenager and a toddler who is challenging his father's anti-establishment credentials by repeatedly writing on the walls. He accidently moved to the countryside in 2016. Follow him @by_Matt_Killeen.