Nina Soni, Snow Spy

by Kashmira Sheth, Jenn Kocsmiersky (Illustrator)

Overview

Lovable, distractable Nina Soni and her friends and family return in another entertaining tale of big plans gone awry and amusing solutions with unexpected consequences.


A long weekend and lots of snow sounds like a recipe for super-special fun to Nina. Best friend Jay is going skiing with his cousins, which is a little disappointing, but some family friends are going to visit and they've got two kids right about the ages of Nina and little sister Kavita. When Nina notices a strange car stopping at the house of neighbors she knows are out of town, she decides that it's time to be a Snow Spy—complete with a Snow Spy Snow Fort, to be built by Nina, Kavita, and new friends Priya and Nayan. Maybe together they can keep an eye on the neighborhood and figure out what MP (Mystery Person) is up to.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682634998
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	10/25/2022
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Kashmira Sheth was born in India and came to the United States when she was seventeen to attend Iowa State University, where she received a BS in microbiology. She is the author of several picture books, chapter books, and middle grade and young adult novels. In her free time, Kashmira enjoys gardening, traveling, and spending time with her family. She also enjoys making lists—but not as much as Nina does!!


Jenn Kocsmiersky lives in upstate New York with her two children and a ginormous goldfish named Joey. She is the author and illustrator of children’s books and a watercolor artist. A Korean American adoptee, she loves to cook, read, and take walks atop old stone walls.

Editorial Reviews

"Nina, who enjoys making lists and sometimes has trouble focusing, is an earnest protagonist with classic worries about the sometimes-intricate levels of friendship. As in other Nina Soni titles, the text keeps to simple sentence structures without many clauses, making this book an optimal choice for emerging readers. . . . Snow good!"—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2022-08-31
Nina has a fun winter holiday with some new friends.

It’s Friday, and Nina and her younger sister, Kavita, are excited for the long weekend break from school. Everyone has exciting plans, like Nina’s best friend, Jay, who’s going skiing with his cousins. Nina’s family is getting the house ready to welcome some old friends of her parents, who have two children who are about Nina’s and Kavita’s ages. Nina comes up with the idea of building a snow fort and makes a list of all the fun things they could all do in it, like being snow spies! That night, Nina notices an unknown person visiting one of the houses on her street, but her neighbors are away on a monthslong vacation. Who could this Mystery Person (MP for short) be? Maybe Nina’s idea of snow spies came at just the right time. Nina, who enjoys making lists and sometimes has trouble focusing, is an earnest protagonist with classic worries about the sometimes-intricate levels of friendship. As in other Nina Soni titles, the text keeps to simple sentence structures without many clauses, making this book an optimal choice for emerging readers. Occasional grayscale illustrations, boxed-off definitions of some higher-level words, and Nina’s lists break up the text. Nina and Kavita are of Indian descent, Jay is of Indian and Norwegian descent, and the Sonis’ guests are Indian and Filipino American.

Snow good! (Fiction. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews