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Hot & Cold (2010)

by Susannah McFarlane(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1921684003 (ISBN13: 9781921684005)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Lemonfizz Media

series

EJ12 Girl Hero

review 1: ok. so a friend of mine told me to read these books. I said okay as Im always on the lookout for new seris. i got through about 10 pages and went 'nup.' it seemed really childish, which i was expecting because my friend and I are 16 and these books were written for ten year old. so I gave up and my friend kept asking have yu read them.... have you read them and I told her I was... when I wasnt. one weekend i had absoltuly nothing i wanted to read so i thought 'what the heck.' yeah. turns out I was wrong about the books being a dumb childish book. I mean yeah, they ARE pretty juvenille but once you get into them they are pretty cool the way that Emma Jacks solves problems and all the weird gadgets she gets. anyway what Im trying to say is if your considering reading these b... moreooks then dont give up on the first one... read at least to no. 8. they get really good after the first few.
review 2: I liked the premise of this story - Primary School girl who doubles as a spy for a secret agency and goes on a series of adventures. The things she finds difficult to do at school - like facing down bullies - becomes easier after a mission from SHINE agency which inevitably teaches her the skills she needs to solve her real life problems (this theme persists throughout the series).It was a very quick and easy read full of well-integrated facts (about Antarctica in this case), positive environmental messages and experiences that young primary school girls can probably relate to. The codes are very simple in this first book, but they get progressively harder and each code is presented on a different page to the solution, giving the reader a chance to work it out for themselves before turning the page.EJ12 is a very light, friendly read with none of the 'grit' or 'darkness' which has been creeping into other child spy books of late. All about saving animals, and the world, from SHADOW's 'dastardly plans', I found myself wondering in a couple of places if it was actually a spoof, but I suspect that for the target age group (about 7 - 10), it would go down quite well. less

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