Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls

by Beth McMullen

  I wrote this book for Max and Katie, who inspire me every day with their wit and laughter and spirit. May the world provide you with all the adventures you desire, big and small and amazing. And, finally, this is for Mike, as they all are.

  About the Author

  Beth McMullen is the author of the Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls series and several adult mysteries. Her books have heroes and bad guys, action, and messy situations.

  An avid reader, she once missed her subway stop and rode the train all the way to Brooklyn because the book she was reading was that good.

  She lives in Northern California with her family; two cats; and a parakeet named Zeus, who is sick of the cats eyeballing him like he’s dinner.

  Visit her at www.BethMcMullenBooks.com.

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Aladdin hardcover edition July 2017

  Text copyright © 2017 by Beth McMullen

  Jacket illustration copyright © 2017 by Vivienne To

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  Book designed by Laura Lyn DiSiena

  Cover designed by Laura Lyn DiSiena

  The text of this book was set in Chaparral Pro.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: McMullen, Beth, 1969- author.

  Title: Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls / by Beth McMullen.

  Description: First Aladdin hardcover edition. | New York : Aladdin, 2017.|

  Summary: Twelve-year-old Abigail is shocked to discover her elite

  boarding school is really a cover for a huge spy ring, and must undergo Spy

  Training 101 in order to save her mother, who happens to be the spy

  ring’s top agent. Identifiers: LCCN 2016042030|

  ISBN 9781481490207 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481490221 (eBook)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Spies—Fiction. | Boarding schools—Fiction. |

  Schools—Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General. | JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories. | JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M4644 Mr 2017 |

  DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016042030