Secret Agent密探
分類: 图书,少儿,少儿原版书,
作者： Robyn Freedman Spizman编著
出 版 社： 家庭电子杂志社
出版时间： 2006-5-1字数：版次： 1页数： 231印刷时间：开本： 32开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9781416918622包装： 平装内容简介
Grade 7-10–Kyle, a New York City high school freshman, is willing to do almost anything to keep his parents together. Convinced that their separation is due simply to his father's obsession with a book he has written, the boy enlists an oddball collection of friends as "secret agents" to help get Dad's senior romance published. The vast array of semi-developed characters includes a flamboyant yet seclusive writer whom no one knows is really a famous "female" author, a dead but influential editor, an unexpectedly wonderful old bookseller who "adopts" Kyle's dad, a classy senior editor whom the kids need to impress, and a bevy of buddies. Through Kyle's persistence and increasing ability to perceive connections and utilize them, the teens manage to lift the manuscript from Dad's hiding place, start a "buzz" throughout New York's publishing industry about the fabulous writer "everybody's" talking about, but no one can find–and secret the manuscript to the senior editor in a ruse involving a "recommendation" from her deceased mentor. Though the journey is circuitous, the characters excessive, and the narrative unsettling (the story is told by an omniscient observer who is afflicted with a severe case of teen speak), it becomes a strangely compelling adventure in which readers root for Kyle's success.–Mary R. Hofmann, Rivera Middle School, Merced, CA --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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作者简介，Robgn Freedman Spizman is an auward-Luinning author and a nationallg knouJn media personalitg and consumer aduocate. She has appeared for tie past kuo decades on teleuision and radio, and is considered a leading product-and-gift expert. To learn more about her, go to uJuJuw.robgnspizman.eom. Robyn liues Luith her husband in Pltlanta, Georgia, and Iheg haue h.uo children, Justin and Pill. Secret Agenf is her middle- grade Fiction debut.