My Best Friend Is a Secret Agent: How Chip became C.H.I.P. and Foiled the Freaky Fuzzy Invasion

by Richard Clark

Overview

C.H.I.P.ing away at danger one mission at a time!

Ten-year-old Nort McKrakken is a pint-sized computer genius and madcap inventor. Fourteen-year-old Chip Munson is his best friend and loyal guinea pig. When Nort creates C.H.I.P.—a microsized computer thingy—and sticks it on his best friend’s tooth, it turns Chip into a real-life secret agent. With Chip’s C.H.I.P. and Nort’s brain, the pair is ready for anything . . . even middle school.

In the first My Best Friend Is a Secret Agent book, Nort and Chip take down an evil cheesemonger who is threatening to choke Vortville with an icky stink. But smelly cheese is nothing compared to Seth Mindwarp and his band of Freaky Fuzzies who want to take over the minds of all the kids at Fuzzy Con. Will our heroic duo be able to save the town again . . . or will Chip’s C.H.I.P. fritz out?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989365779
Publisher:	Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group
Publication date:	09/07/2021
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

About the Author

Richard Clark has written for many kids’ TV shows on Disney, Nickelodeon, Netflix, CBC, BBC and many other foreign networks. He lives just outside of Toronto with his wife and their two children.


About the Illustrator
Rich Murray has over thirty years’ experience in illustration, animation and design for such clients as RBC, Energizer and Canadian Tire. He also designs mobile apps. He lives just outside of Toronto with his wife and son.
About the Author
Richard Clark has written for many kids’ TV shows on Disney, Nickelodeon, Netflix, CBC, BBC and many other foreign networks. He lives just outside of Toronto with his wife and their two children.


About the Illustrator
Rich Murray has over thirty years experience in illustration, animation and design for such clients as RBC, Energizer and Canadian Tire. He also designs mobile apps. He lives just outside of Toronto with his wife and son.

Editorial Reviews

09/01/2021

Gr 3 Up—Sixth grade computer genius Nort McKrakken transforms his friend into a secret agent in an attempt to win his father's approval and save his hometown of Vortville. Nort's father, Colonel Brock McKrakken, is the head of McKrakken Security Systems and often saves the town from villains (occasionally destroying half of Vortville in the process). To assist his father's business, Nort invents C.H.I.P., a tiny microchip that attaches to a tooth, sending signals to the wearer's brain and controlling their actions. Nort tests the new device on his best friend, the ever-agreeable Chip. Chip, now wearing C.H.I.P., becomes famous throughout Vortville for his heroic behavior, to Nort's jealousy. The duo, later accompanied by Nort's younger sister Stella, are able to save Vortville from an evil genius and his army of mind-controlling stuffed animals. Problematic behavior abounds throughout, such as Nort's blatant disregard for Chip's safety. Similarly, Nort's father, a poorly developed character reliant upon tropes and stereotypes, does nothing but ignore his son's accomplishments and intelligence while attempting to bully him into a military career. Both Nort and his father are cued as white. VERDICT The fast-paced nature of the story may appeal to some, but this first installment otherwise lacks substance and character development. Fans of spy thrillers and secret agents are better served by Mac Barnett's, "Mac B., Kid Spy" series.—Olivia Gorecke, Cape May Cty. Lib., Ocean View, NJ

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