This book is about Cammie Morgan. She is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Woman. But it isn't what it appears to be. It is actually an all girls school for spies. Cammie's teachers range from polite and sweet to teachers who get plastic surgery every year in order to look very different because they are wanted all over the world. At the academy you would study martial arts in P.E., the latest chemical warfare, fluently speak in 14 different languages, learn who to kill someone in 7 different ways with your bare hands and get extra credit for breaking CIA codes. But the story is mainly about Cammie using all of her training to keep a HUGE secret from her mom, who is the headmistress, and all of her teachers. That secret is that Cammie has a boyfriend. He thinks she is an ordinary girl who is very religious, home schooled, has a cat and is not allowed to date. She creates this whole other person. Things are working out fine, until Josh's friend, Dillon, figures out that she is a "Gallagher Girl", as the kids in the town call them. The whole neighborhood of Roseville thinks they are just a bunch of stuck up, rich kids. But some of the girls are far from rich, and don't have it easy at all. Dillon does eventually expose Cammie for what she was, but it turns out that all the teachers, including her mom, knew what was going on. So they tell Josh what the school really was after he fallowed Cammie to a CovOps final. CovOps (Covert Operations) is like a class where they learn all of the defense and tricks to being a spy. So, the final was of course a fake mission. They gave Josh some memory washing tea, so he forgot everything that had happened in those past 3 hours.
Cammie, Bex, Liz, Macey, Headmistress Morgan, Josh, Joe Solomon, Dillon and DeeDee, are all of the characters in the book. Cammie is the main character. She is smart, funny, pretty and somewhat clueless when it comes to real life. The story is about her in her sophomore year getting glimpse of what the world was like outside of the school walls. She met this boy Josh at a fair. She was at a CovOps test and they had to spy on someone to put it simply. Anyway, she met Josh at the fair. Her dad died on a mission when she was little. Bex and Liz are her best friends. Bex is tough, very strong, pretty and she is from England. Liz is very, very, very, very, very smart. She is one of the smartest girls if not the smartest at a school for geniuses. But she tends to worry and overreact. Cammie's mom is the headmistress. She is one of the governments best spies. She is also apparently known for how pretty she is. She is nice and didn't want Cammie to be a spy. But after Cammie's father died, Cammie felt it was the only way she could connect with him. Josh is an ordinary guy who thinks he fell in the with an ordinary girl, but he was very, very wrong. Joe Solomon is one of the teachers at the academy. He is one of the academies best teachers. He is also very close with Cammie's mom because Cammie's dad and Joe were close friends. Dillon is a really bad kid. He is snooty and judges people by their cover. DeeDee is a close friend of Josh. She is sweet and very nice. She also has a HUGE crush on Josh.
I really liked this book. But I feel like the sequel that just came out will make it even better. The main reason I decided to read this book was because Walt Disney Pictures is going to make it a movie. So I decided for once I am going to read the book before I watched the movie. It was a lot better than I thought it would be, however it was a little cheesy.
As I read the book I visualized and tried to picture what the movie would be like. I wrote a lot of post-its and wrote out a summery 5 times.
The author, Ally Carter, lives in the midwest. She loves school and has degrees from Oklahoma State University and Cornell.
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