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Overview

The hilarious new series Spy Goddess launches in paperback, bringing this witty combination of espionage, action, mystery, and girlpower to a wider audience.

Blackthorn Academy, meet Rachel Buchanan

I'm not a delinquent...I'm just misunderstood.

Of course, the judge didn't see it that way. She gave me a choice: juvenile detention or boarding school in Pennsylvania, of all places. That's how I wound up at freaky Blackthorn Academy. This school is clearly hiding some major secrets.

And here's something you should know ...

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Overview

The hilarious new series Spy Goddess launches in paperback, bringing this witty combination of espionage, action, mystery, and girlpower to a wider audience.

Blackthorn Academy, meet Rachel Buchanan

I'm not a delinquent...I'm just misunderstood.

Of course, the judge didn't see it that way. She gave me a choice: juvenile detention or boarding school in Pennsylvania, of all places. That's how I wound up at freaky Blackthorn Academy. This school is clearly hiding some major secrets.

And here's something you should know about me: Rachel Buchanan never gives up when there are secrets to uncover. Watch out, Blackthorn Academy!

This new series is funny, fast–paced, and perfect for fans of Alias, Charlie's Angels, or Buffy.

Beverly Hills teenager Rachel Buchanan gets in trouble with the law and winds up at mysterious Blackthorn Academy in Pennsylvania, where she uncovers secrets about the school and becomes entangled in a case of international espionage.

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Gr 7-10-Rachel Buchanan, 15, is Blackthorn Academy's newest student. Arrested in California for grand theft auto, the wealthy teen is sent to this Pennsylvania boarding school to avoid a sentence in juvenile detention. It is here that Rachel's life changes forever. Blackthorn Academy is no ordinary boarding school, and Jonathon Kim is no ordinary headmaster. Rachel's penchant for discovering the truth leads her unwittingly into her first mission-to save the Book of Seraphim-and ultimately to uncover Kim's secret. A former FBI special agent, the headmaster runs a covert operation through the school to protect the world from Simon Blankenship, another former Special Forces agent who believes he is the mythical underworld god, Mithras, reborn and destined to rule the world. Although the characters are not terribly complex and the plot is fairly far-fetched, the book is an entertaining page-turner. Spradlin captures the perfect teenage voice in his protagonist; she is more than just a spoiled, fashion-conscious teen from Beverly Hills-she is the Spy Goddess-witty and smart with an edge. Overall, this is an intelligent, exciting mystery that will have broad appeal.-Leigh Ann Morlock, formerly at Vernonia School District, OR Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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This first in a new series introduces 15-year-old Rachel Buchanan, Beverly Hills princess gone bad, who turns to fighting evil. The first half of the story simply follows Rachel's rebellion against her uncaring parents, which leads her into minor criminal activity. Then a judge sentences her to attend a strange school in Pennsylvania, where the school's enigmatic principal, Mr. Kim, requires every student to learn Tae Kwan Do and take criminology classes. When Mr. Kim disappears, Rachel discovers a hidden, high-tech lair behind a secret door in his office. She enlists three other students to find him and uncovers an evil madman's plot to rule the world. Though this begins as an interesting exploration of adolescent rebellion, it morphs into a trite fantasy. Despite the title, no shopping occurs in this installment. Catchy and designed to pull in the chick-lit (and Bond?) crowd, it's a deceit of sorts; perhaps the ritual will emerge in later episodes, though by then it may be too late. (Fiction. 12-14)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060594077
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
  • Publication date: 3/15/2005
  • Pages: 211
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Series: Spy Goddess Series, #1
  • Product dimensions: 5.58 (w) x 8.46 (h) x 0.83 (d)

Meet the Author

Michael P. Spradlin grew up in Michigan rooting for his beloved Detroit Tigers. He collected baseball cards, listened to Tigers games on the radio, and talked his third-grade teacher into bringing her twenty-five-inch Zenith console television to school so the class could watch Game Seven of the 1968 World Series. Now he writes books, still listens to games on the radio, and hopes one day the Tigers will realize the error of their ways and offer him the third-base spot he has coveted for so long. He is also the author of the Youngest Templar trilogy, the Spy Goddess series, and several other picture books. He lives with his family in Lapeer, Michigan.

First Chapter

Spy Goddess, Book One: Live and Let Shop

Chapter One


The End of My Life
as I Know It


The cop car I rode in the night I got arrested was really clean. Spotless, almost. So was the station house. It wasn't like the police stations you see on TV, where there are druggies and lowlifes everywhere you look and everything is total chaos. It was pretty quiet, very neat, and there didn't seem to be much going on. It reminded me of the locker room at Dad's country club. I guess there's not a lot of serious crime in Beverly Hills. Except for me, of course—Rachel Buchanan, one-girl crime wave.

We only got caught that night because Boozer made an illegal left turn in the car he'd boosted. Unluckily for us, a cop happened to drive by at exactly the wrong moment. So much of life is just timing.

Boozer is so smooth, he probably could have talked his way out of it, but instead he panicked and took off. So there we were in a high-speed chase. The weird thing was, I thought it was funny. For some reason, when I get scared or nervous—or apparently in a high-speed chase—I start to laugh. Maybe I'm a psycho. I'll get on a roller coaster at Magic Mountain with a drop straight down, and while everyone is screaming at the top of their lungs, I'm sitting there laughing like an idiot. It's this really weird nervous laugh that I can't stop. I wonder what a shrink would say about that?

Anyway, so Boozer, Jamie, and Grego were scared and screaming the whole time the cop was chasing us, and when Boozer ran the car up onto a lawn, they piled out right away and took off running. I was laughing so hard in the backseat that I couldn't move, and that's how I got busted.

The cop ordered me out of the car and asked me what I thought was so funny. Stealing a car and driving it up on somebody's lawn? And who were my friends and where did they go? And I was in a lot of trouble, missy, make no mistake about it. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I couldn't stop laughing, so he hustled me into his car and off we went to the station.

I wound up sitting on a bench outside the interview room, where a detective named Daniels asked me all kinds of questions about who took the car. He kept saying I'd better tell them what they wanted to know or I'd be in worse trouble. I told him to stuff it because there's no way I was telling the cops who I was with. So he called my parents and invited them down to spend a little quality time with me at the Beverly Hills PD.

It took about an hour for Dad to show up—of course, with the ever-present cell phone glued to his ear. Probably calling Marvin. Marvin is his attorney. Check that. Marvin is more than Dad's attorney. He's like Dad's most favorite person ever. Dad looks at Marvin and sees dollar signs. He just loves Marvin, who is quite possibly the most boring human being on the face of the earth.

No sign of Mom. Probably at home with her coffee cup full of "medicine." I bet she was already working the phones in the neighborhood, trying to find out if word had spread about her daughter the criminal, and wondering how she was going to keep this out of the Beverly Hills Gazette.

"Hi, Charles! Always nice to see you," I said. "Mom busy?"

He didn't even stop to ask if I was okay. He skipped right to the yelling part. "What were you thinking stealing a car!" he said.

"I didn't steal anything. I—" As usual he didn't let me finish.

"Do you have any idea what kind of trouble you're in? Do you realize what you've put us through?" By "us" I wasn't sure if he meant him and Mom or him and Marvin. Any time he spent having to deal with me meant less opportunity to make even more zillions of dollars.

"What do you have to say for yourself?" he said.

"I didn't do anything," I said. "I was just out with some friends."

"You mean that bunch of juvenile delinquents?"

"Ouch, Dad. I mean, really, that hurts."

"You think this is funny?" He was getting angrier.

"Well, this part not so much. The high-speed chase had its moments, though."

"You think you've got it all figured out, don't you?" he said. "This isn't the first little scrape you've been in. Shoplifting, vandalism, and now you've graduated to Grand Theft Auto. That's a felony! You realize you'll have to appear before a juvenile court judge again?"

"Juvenile court! Again? That'll be great," I said. "Maybe you and Mom can both make it this time. We'll pack a lunch and make a day of it!"

"Keep cracking wise, Rachel. You seem to think it's all a great big joke. Well, if you won't cooperate with the police, that's your problem. No Marvin, no other attorneys, no help from us. You're on your own."

Spy Goddess, Book One: Live and Let Shop. Copyright © by Michael Spradlin. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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  • Posted August 9, 2011

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    It was great i liked it!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 9, 2008

    I absolutely loved this book!

    Spy Goddess: Live and Let Shop was so good! I loved how weird and funny Rachel was. Her little investigation to uncover the school's secrets was one of those things that you would want to do in real life, but you know you'd never find anything nearly as interesting as what Rachel uncovered. I liked how it had a bit of supernatural stuff in it, you don't see that in many spy books. I can't wait to read the next book in the series and I'm super excited about the third book since it's a graphic novel.

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    AMAGAWD

    loved. loved the characters. i really hope she gets a boyfriend!

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    Posted August 12, 2005

    Great book

    It's one of the best books I've read!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 5, 2005

    A Fantastic and Fun Book

    I couldn't stop reading this book! It keep me reading right until the end and now I can't wait for the next one! Rachel Buchanan is a funny and interesting character. When book the start out she's kind of spoiled and bratty. She gets sent away to a boarking school called Blackthorn Academy somewhere in Pennsylvania. But it's petty obvioius that it's not a normal school. The headmaster Mr. Kim gives Rachel a lot of weird classes, like Micro-electronics, and Code Theory and Crimanology. She also has to learn Tae Kwan Do. Soon she figures out that there are lots of weird things about Blackthorn. One day the FBI shows up and she sees the agents talking to Mr. Kim. Shortly after that, he dissappears and only Rachel is the one with enough smarts to figure out something is going on and get her new friends to go looking for him. By the end of the book, Rachel isn't so spoiled and bratty. She shows that she's pretty smart and tough. She figures things out and isn't a quitter. It was really fun to read, fast-paced with a really interesting mystery. I'll definitely be readig the next one!

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