I Noticed

that I gave four stars to Spy School and five stars to both Spy Camp and Evil Spy School.  I think it might be because I was impressed by the way that the story was easy to pick up, without the first books being over rehashed and also the story still stayed fresh and interesting!  In any case, I am looking forward to Spy Ski School! 

Swears

There is one "swear word" in Spy School that I know would cause trouble if my place of work were to choose this as a book for one of our programs.  It's the a_s word.  Why didn't Gibbs just use "butt!"  I mean I wasn't offended by it, but I know that some caregivers don't want their kids to use a_s in regular conversation.  Granted, no one is calling anyone an a_s in here, it is just used to say were Ben landed when he fell!  So it would have been all the same to just say "butt" but it probably isn't as bad as if Ben had called someone an a_s. That said, I liked Spy School and was glad to finally get the audio, having already enjoyed the Moon Base Alpha series.   I will read more in the Spy series and I hope I can get a hold of an audio of the first Fun Jungle book, but there doesn't seem to be one in existence.  Oh well.  Spy School is great fun!

Skinny

Last week a kid made fun of me because I was, what he called, "skinny!"  I wanted to tell him that David Levithan would be VERY mad at him for doing that!  Skinnybones was a good book.  Just a good story about being a kid and trying to fit in and not being as "big" or as "bad" or as "cool" as the others.  A good school story.  This is written by the late Barbara Park who also wrote the Junie B. Jones books, of which I am NOT a fan, as I think she is mean!  But I am very sensitive!  Well this wasn't a mean book, I mean, it dealt with bullying, but the main character is a good dude.