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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Adventure fiction Science fiction Adventure stories Action and adventure fiction Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Trenton Lee Stewart; Carson Ellis |
ISBN: | 9780316057776 0316057770 9781439512050 1439512051 1905294573 190642702X 9781905294572 9781906427023 9780316003957 0316003956 9780316067799 0316067792 9780316265010 0316265012 9780316318150 0316318159 |
OCLC Number: | 66392644 |
Awards: | Lone Star Reading List, 2008-2009. |
Description: | 485 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Pencils, erasers, and disqualification -- Buckets and spectacles -- Squares and arrows -- The trouble with children or, why they are necessary -- The sender and the messages -- The men in the maze -- Codes and histories -- The thing to come -- The naming of the crew -- Nomansan Island -- Traps and nonsense -- Beware the Gemini -- Lessons learned -- People and places to be avoided -- Logical conclusions and miscalculations -- Poison apples, poison worms -- A surprising suggestion -- Tests and invitations -- Everything as it should be -- Of families lost and found -- Tactical cactupi -- Caught in the act -- The waiting room -- Punishments and promotions -- Half a riddle -- The whisperer -- Open sesame -- Practice makes perfect -- Know thine enemy -- A chess lesson -- The mouse in the culvert -- Sacrifices, narrow escapes, and something like a plan -- Bad news and bad news -- Sticky's discovery -- The Great Kate Weather Machine -- Stands and falls -- The best medicine -- Escapes and returns -- For every exit, an entrance. |
Responsibility: | written by Trenton Lee Stewart ; illustrated by Carson Ellis. |
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Abstract:
When an advert appears in the newspaper for children to take part in a secret mission, children everywhere sit a series of odd tests. In the end, just Reynie, Kate, Sticky and Constance succeed. They have three things in common: they are honest, talented and orphans. They must go undercover and work as a team to save themselves, but also the world.
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