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Annalynn the Canadian Spy: Terrible Tissues by Shawn P.B. Robinson
4.0
Ten-year-old AnnaLynne has been recruited into CSIS the Canadian Security Intelligence Service which is spread so thin with its few agents either busy or on assignment, that she is needed to retrieve a box of tissues from the Norwegian Intelligence Service whose operatives have stolen it from AnnaLynne’s sick family.
This story is a tween spoof on the spy genre trope. Sure, there are sleek vehicles and fancy spy gadgets, but they don’t work quite the way one would expect. There are undercover hijinx and even a great chase and narrow escape. Plus, one has to simply love an autopilot that can find its way to HQ using the coordinates “Just down the road from Amanda’s place by the tall maple tree.” I found the rivalry between Canada’s hockey players and Norway’s Skiiers to be hilarious and I can just see curious kids googling Etterretningstjenesten. My husband who is learning Norwegian had fun with it. There is much to be said for this story.
It is marketed for ages 7-13, but I feel that may be a bit ambitious. The story while fun and full of laugh-out-loud moments is probably a bit too outlandish for that age group as they are moving away from the silly kid stories that stretch suspension of disbelief, and into serious middle-grade fiction. I am thinking second grade would upper end of the age range I would recommend this series of books for. Though, I do believe that once introduced to the series readers in that age group will happily carry it with them into older grades as new books come out.
This story is a tween spoof on the spy genre trope. Sure, there are sleek vehicles and fancy spy gadgets, but they don’t work quite the way one would expect. There are undercover hijinx and even a great chase and narrow escape. Plus, one has to simply love an autopilot that can find its way to HQ using the coordinates “Just down the road from Amanda’s place by the tall maple tree.” I found the rivalry between Canada’s hockey players and Norway’s Skiiers to be hilarious and I can just see curious kids googling Etterretningstjenesten. My husband who is learning Norwegian had fun with it. There is much to be said for this story.
It is marketed for ages 7-13, but I feel that may be a bit ambitious. The story while fun and full of laugh-out-loud moments is probably a bit too outlandish for that age group as they are moving away from the silly kid stories that stretch suspension of disbelief, and into serious middle-grade fiction. I am thinking second grade would upper end of the age range I would recommend this series of books for. Though, I do believe that once introduced to the series readers in that age group will happily carry it with them into older grades as new books come out.