Being spies, everything is on a “need to know” basis and Cammie doesn’t have “high-enough clearance.” As such, she has to learn a lot of things on her own, including how to solve her own problems, generally. Since the focus is mainly on Cammie, she has issues with trusting her mom and finding out who her dad really was. I loved this series! The characters seemed well thought-out and they all struggle with something that other teens will identify with. Although they each have their own particular gifts, using them together makes this foursome hard to beat, and, in the end, they just might be responsible for saving the world. Together with her best friends, Rebecca ‘Bex’ Baxter, Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Sutton and Macey McHenry, they go through high school learning about their future jobs as spies, but they also learn a lot about love, friendship, survival, trust, and determination. Cammie Morgan is one of these young ladies. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is not your typical private school, although it does produce very intelligent young ladies with certain, um…unique skills. I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover Only the Good Spy Young Out of Sight, Out of Time United We Spy Any girl, especially, will have a hard time not liking these mysteries! And, they’re so good, they’re hard to put down! These series are empowering, fresh, and funny. You might have read her already, but Ally is the author of some great, clean mystery reads for middle grades and lower high school readers. (Note: Part of this post is taken from a previous entry.)

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