Book 1 found them first working together as a special, top-secret project for British spy agency MI6 with adult mentors Mother and Monty. Parents need to know that Golden Gate is the second installment of James Ponti's City Spies series, which features five kids age 12-15, from five different continents, wildly different backgrounds, and with mad skills that include codebreaking, martial arts, computer hacking, mathematics and more. Plentiful use of technology, including Google, StreetView, Cray supercomputer. But adult MI6 mentors Mother (who's a guy) and Monty (who's a woman), among others, offer solid support and advice while dealing with troubles of their own.

There are some adult villains, from cartoonish terrorists to ego-driven politicians, as well as an unknown mole in MI6 who's also a murderer. Sydney and Brooklyn are on the outs as the story opens, and how they make things better is important to the plot so is teamwork. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can't.īefore she knows what she's doing, Sara is heading to Paris for an international youth summit, hacking into a rival school's computer to prevent them from winning a million euros, dangling thirty feet off the side of a building, and trying to stop a villain.all while navigating the complex dynamics of her new team.All the City Spies get their moments to shine, and also to work together - 15-year-old Paris, born in Rwanda, who became a street kid in France and saved a spy from death in a burning warehouse Sydney, 14 and late of Bondi Beach, who excels at improvising solutions in the most challenging situations Kat, 13, a math whiz recruited in a Nepali refugee camp, who may be on the autism spectrum, doesn't talk a lot but when she does it's spot-on 12-year-old Rio, a Brazilian street kid with no equal in magic, puzzle-solving, and sleight of hand and the newest recruit, computer wizard Brooklyn, also 12. When they're not attending the local boarding school, they're honing their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. Operating out of a base in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from various parts of the world. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets Sara released from jail but also offers her a chance to make a home for herself within a secret MI6 agency.

However, instead of being hailed as a hero, Sara finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers for the same stretch of time.

She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. In this thrilling new series that Stuart Gibbs called 'a must-read,' Edgar Award winner James Ponti brings together five kids from all over the world and transforms them into real-life spies-perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs.

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