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Text copyright © 2017 by Stuart Gibbs
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Book design and illustration by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Map illustration by Ryan Thompson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gibbs, Stuart, 1969- author.
Title: Spy School secret service / Stu Gibbs.
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2017]. | Series: Spy School | Sequel to: Spy ski school. | Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016037360 | ISBN 9781481477826 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781481477840 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Spies—Fiction. | Assassination—Fiction. | Presidents—Fiction. |
Friendship—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Washington, D.C.—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General. | JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories. | JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories.
Classification: LCC PZ7.G339236 Spq 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016037360