BOOK REVIEW – London Calling: City Spies #6

by James Ponti (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) An audiobook. LONDON CALLING, the sixth City Spies adventure by James Ponti, is another amazing story about the young Special MI-6 spies whom the Second-in-Command of British espionage, calls “those magnificent children.” Each of these kids, aged from 9 to 14, was once orphaned and then found in…

BOOK REVIEW – City of the Dead: City Spies, Book 4

by James Ponti (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) James Ponti delivers another great City Spies mystery, set in Cairo this time. The team gets a 6th member, but is he good… or evil? Only time (and the next book) will tell. (The reader is pulled either way as the story progresses.) Meanwhile, the youngest team member,…

BOOK REVIEW – Framed! – Framed series #1

by James Ponti (Author), Brian Holden (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook      I loved Framed. It’s perfect reading for middle schoolers or older. It has adventure, danger, good thinking, friendship, and a few wild mysteries. Author James Ponti writes one of my other favorite series and he knows how to tell stories that kids love.  Can a 12-year-old…

BOOK REVIEW – Forbidden City – #3 in the City Spies series

by James Ponti (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) An audiobook. This is the third in the fantastic City Spies series that I have read, and it is absolutely not put-downable! I listened to this fast-paced book late at night in bed, while cooking dinner, walking, gardening… completely immersed in the world of these 12-15-year-old MI-6 spies,…

BOOK REVIEW – Golden Gate, Book 2 of City Spies

by James Ponti (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review “This mission is hot! It’s a go!”    GOLDEN GATE is the second of the City Spies books I’ve read, and I love them!  Smart kids (I mean VERY smart kids), super-special skills (but natural, no hocus-pocus), wild adventure, world travel, secrets, villains, danger,   complex…