Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school-that is, if every school taught ...
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Dec 22, 2011
Jennifer
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Welcome to The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, an all-girls school located just outside of Roseville, Virginia. Anyone looking at this elite private boarding school would see just what The Gallagher Academy wants you to see--a preppy school for privileged girls, complete with a guardhouse and stone wall to keep the curious away from their precious charges. And they'd be right, of course, and yet they would be so very, very wrong!
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Welcome to The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, an all-girls school located just outside of Roseville, Virginia. Anyone looking at this elite private boarding school would see just what The Gallagher Academy wants you to see--a preppy school for privileged girls, complete with a guardhouse and stone wall to keep the curious away from their precious charges. And they'd be right, of course, and yet they would be so very, very wrong!
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Jun 19, 2008
Steph
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I picked this book up because of all the media hyper surrounding it—the Disney option and the New York Times bestseller status, not to mention the cute cover and interesting premise. Who hasn’t found themselves imagining what it would be like to be a secret government operative during an especially boring Physics lecture? Behold: the appeal of this book (to me, at least).
With all this in mind, why oh why was I so disappointed upon finishing it?
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With all this in mind, why oh why was I so disappointed upon finishing it?
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Dec 17, 2009
Leanna
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I am a daydreamer—I think most readers are. As a freshman in high school, I had a recurring fantasy about being a spy. At the time, I was taking Russian classes (back when the Cold War was a recent memory) and spent hours imagining what life would be like if I’d been bred for espionage. What if I were fluent in fourteen languages? What if I could kill a man (or woman) with a ketchup bottle?
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Apr 28, 2008
Crystal
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English 425 Submitter’s name: Crystal Alexander
Book Bank Book Bank subject: Romance
Reference information:
Title: I’d Tell you I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You
Author: Ally Carter
Publisher: First Hyperion Paperbacks Year: 2006
# of pages: 284 Genre: Romance
Reading level Interest level: 8th or 9th Grade
Potential hot lava: Has some references to violence but, not used as a weapon used as protection
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Book Bank Book Bank subject: Romance
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Title: I’d Tell you I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You
Author: Ally Carter
Publisher: First Hyperion Paperbacks Year: 2006
# of pages: 284 Genre: Romance
Reading level Interest level: 8th or 9th Grade
Potential hot lava: Has some references to violence but, not used as a weapon used as protection
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Jun 25, 2008
Caryn
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I liked this book in the same way that I like the Princess Diaries movies (1 and 2). It's cute. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I giggle when it's witty. And when the lights come up (or I reach the back cover), there's a smile on my face.
Cammie "The Chameleon" goes to a spy school. I mean, how cool is that! Yes, at times, the plot is cringe-worthy (I mean, the basic conflict is the fact that she can't tell the perfect boy that she can throw him to the pavement from six dif More...
Cammie "The Chameleon" goes to a spy school. I mean, how cool is that! Yes, at times, the plot is cringe-worthy (I mean, the basic conflict is the fact that she can't tell the perfect boy that she can throw him to the pavement from six dif More...
Jun 06, 2008
A(:
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This book was really good and I know I am going to read the second one!!! The main character's name is Cammie Morgan and the review says she goes to a "genius" school, which is actually a spy school, called Gallagher Academy. She learns/knows how to speak 14 different languages fluently, and she can kill a man in 7 different ways!!! But, the one thing Gallagher hasn't prepared her for is how to deal with an ordinary boy who thinks you're an ordinary girl that she falls for. Ugh!!!
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Jun 19, 2010
Courtney
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It is actually really good. Not Twilight good, but it has a good story to it.
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Jan 31, 2012
Morgan
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What an awesome concept for a book! Teenage girls who just happen to be spies. On that alone, I started reading. Right from the beginning, Cammie was a fabulous main character. Funny, relatable, hardworking, and loyal to both her friends and her mom. Ally Carter did a great job of making the life of a teenage spy seem both familiar and fun. For example, the classes. Countries of the World, Covert Operations, Ancient Languages, Culture and Assimilation, and Protection and Enforcement. Each and ev
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Dec 04, 2008
Ryan
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This book had a fun premise: An all-girl spy academy disguised as a private school for rich kids. The problem here was in the telling--not the author's, but the reader's.
When my wife and I travel on longer car trips, we tend to listen to audio books checked out from the library--mostly YA chick lit, for some reason. Our friend Andrea enjoyed this one, and we figured we'd like it, too. By the end of the sixth CD, we realized that we'd have liked it more if we had read it quietly to ou More...
When my wife and I travel on longer car trips, we tend to listen to audio books checked out from the library--mostly YA chick lit, for some reason. Our friend Andrea enjoyed this one, and we figured we'd like it, too. By the end of the sixth CD, we realized that we'd have liked it more if we had read it quietly to ou More...
Apr 27, 2008
Tuckerm
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I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You, is a great book that is not only for girls. In this novel, the main character Cammie Morgan is a normal young lady. But there is one little thing that is weird about her, she goes to all-girl spy school called The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. The reason why I said that this school was a spy school was because they teach fifteen different languages, the latest in chemical warfare, how to brake CIA codes, and advanced martia
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Jul 21, 2008
Snorkle
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You thought regular high school was tough, well Cammie is going to Gallagher Academy, an all girl school for spies. By sophomore year she is fluent in over ten languages, can kill a man seven different ways and hacks into the CIA for extra credit. So falling for a boy shouldn't be so stressful, not when you are a spy-in-training. Having a relationship with a boy may be the toughest mission Cammie may try to undertake.
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Apr 25, 2008
Katy
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Nov 06, 2007
Nian
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The main reason I picked up this book was because of the title; it's totally cute. And when I read the blurb, I liked the storyline. What's not to like about a girl genius who's currently a sophomore in SPY school? I've watched enough movies to know that there'll be cool gadgets and undercover cops involved.
The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is an all girls school--but unlike regular schools, it's a place for retired FBI agents working as teachers and teenagers who ar More...
The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is an all girls school--but unlike regular schools, it's a place for retired FBI agents working as teachers and teenagers who ar More...
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Nov 23, 2008
Holly
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I loved, loved, loved this book! It was so funny--like, laugh out loud funny--had some really good characters, and an interesting plot (though pretty simple). It was pretty original, too. At least, I've never read anything like it before. AND there was absolutely no questionable content. Nothing whatsoever. It was 100% clean, which is kind of shocking for the genre, which usually sneaks some stuff in. I can't wait to read the next one!
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Mar 18, 2011
Hannah
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Ahhh, the first book in the Gallagher Girls series! When I think of this book, I immediately think of the hottie, Josh. When Cammie goes out on "field trip," she falls in love with the only one who notices her when she is undercover as the Chameleon. As you would've guessed, relationships with secrets never work out well. But Cammie is good at keeping secrets. Can she keep hers or will Josh find out EVERYTHING? Read to find out how this love story ends!
Sep 19, 2011
Stephanie
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The first Gallagher Girls book was very quick and easy read. It's not complex and it's easy to follow, but the basis of a spy-school for girls is an interesting one. I liked all of the characters that were introduced and Cammie is a promising protagonist - It's nice to see girls being shown as strong characters in the YA genre. The romance between Cammie and Josh was sweet enough without being over the top. The book could be stepped up a level, but it's definitely good as an easy read and I don'
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Apr 20, 2010
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Jun 23, 2011
Adi (Reading in the Windowseat)
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Okay, so, this is not exactly for my age - this is something written for pre-young-adult readers, but still - the book was hilarious and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
I loved most of the characters and the plot, found the terms used very suitably, laughed out loud at the change of writing that made parts sound like quotes from a spy report but had ridiculous context.
I found the book light, funny and relaxing.
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I loved most of the characters and the plot, found the terms used very suitably, laughed out loud at the change of writing that made parts sound like quotes from a spy report but had ridiculous context.
I found the book light, funny and relaxing.
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Aug 20, 2007
Lea
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This is a very fun (I seem to say that a lot about books) YA novel about a girl who attends a boarding school for young spies-in-training. Cammie Morgan is the daughter of the school's headmistress, and she has life in her school figured out. Things get complicated when she meets a local boy in town, a boy who doesn't know that she goes to Gallagher Academy, a boy who thinks that Gallagher is a school for rich girl geniuses not a school for spies. Can Cammie keep her cover intact? This book is a
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Nov 19, 2008
Chelsey
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This book was a very slow book. I was half way through the book and was stuck wondering when it was ever going to get to the point. I was too bored with this book, so therefore it was taking me too long to read it, so I moved on.
Other people may like this book even though I did not enjoy it as much.
It is about a girl named Cammie who goes to an all girls school. But this school is not just some ordinary school, it is where they teach you how to break government codes. It is a school More...
Other people may like this book even though I did not enjoy it as much.
It is about a girl named Cammie who goes to an all girls school. But this school is not just some ordinary school, it is where they teach you how to break government codes. It is a school More...
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Dec 12, 2011
Chaveliz
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I’d Tell You I love You But Then I’d Have To Kill You
Ally Carter
Book Report By: Chaveliz Nieves
If you are looking for an action book with a spice of romance in it then there is a book I can recommend you. The book is called “I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You”. Ally Carter, the author of this book, is the author to about eight books. Six of the books she wrote are sequence books and “I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You” is part More...
Ally Carter
Book Report By: Chaveliz Nieves
If you are looking for an action book with a spice of romance in it then there is a book I can recommend you. The book is called “I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You”. Ally Carter, the author of this book, is the author to about eight books. Six of the books she wrote are sequence books and “I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You” is part More...
Nov 14, 2011
Roxy
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I think this is such a great book for young girls, Cammie Morgan, the main character goes to an all girls academy for “exceptional young women,” really the school is for spies. Cammie is extremely talented and incredibly smart but doesn’t have a clue in the world when she meets a boy who has an interest in her. Carter pulls off the emotions and feelings that young teenage girls experience when they have a first crush, the uneasiness and the queasy feelings when boys are talking to you. It took m
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Oct 25, 2011
"Cammie se siente invisible. Para la mayoría de chicas esto sería una tragedia; para ella, es su virtud más preciada. Y es que Cammie no va al típico “high school” americano, sino a la Academia Gallager, donde se entrena a futuras espías y pasar desapercibido es una cualidad. El curso se presenta especialmente emocionante: es el primer año que van a salir del colegio en misiones de práctica y Joe Solomon, su nuevo profesor de Operaciones Encubiertas, es más guapo que cualquier James Bond. P
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Feb 25, 2009
Trish
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Apparently, this is the most popular book at my daughter's middle school. She said that it was one of the top ten on the school library's website at the beginning of the year and she was in line for a long time and she finally got it last week. She is now in line for the second book which she really wants to read. She asked me if I badly wanted to read the second book, too, after I finished the first, but my response was less than what she expected. I can wait.
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Feb 23, 2009
Rachel
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Cameron "Cammie" Morgan attends a very special school, one where the townspeople think they're a bunch of spoiled rich girls, but no one knows the feats they're capable of, because it's a school for spies. They take classes like Covert Operations and their school is full of hidden passageways that would make Harry Potter do a double take.
Cammie's used to this life, since her mother is the headmaster and her father died while spying, but she still has a lot to learn (she's onl More...
Cammie's used to this life, since her mother is the headmaster and her father died while spying, but she still has a lot to learn (she's onl More...
Nov 29, 2008
Elizabeth
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The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school teaches advanced martial arts in PE, chemistry always consists of the latest in chemical warfare, and everyone breaks CIA codes for extra credit in computer class. So in truth, while the Gallagher Academy might say it's a school for geniuses what they really mean is spies. But what happens when a Gallagher Girl falls for a boy who doesn't have a code name?
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Nov 28, 2008
Debbie
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This book is a YA romance, spy-style. Pretty much everything about this book--the spy gadgets, spy stories, numerous hidden passageways, and so on--are all wildly implausible, but the story is nonetheless extremely funny (if you enjoy this type of humor). The overall tone of the book is very light and funny, but it ends on a serious note.
The pacing was excellent, the world-building was good, and the characters were engaging.
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The pacing was excellent, the world-building was good, and the characters were engaging.
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Jan 05, 2012
Kelsy
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My thoughts: OHMYHECKGOOUTANDBUYTHISBOOKRIGHTNOW!!!!
This is a short, sweet, and HILARIOUS read about Cammie Morgan, a teen spy-in-training who can speak 14 languages, blend in with any environment, and kill you seven different ways, but has yet to crack what she and her contemporaries call “the boy code”.
The characters in this novel are simply delightful, and even though the concept of a boarding school for teenage spies is a little farfetched, Carter makes the secret wor More...
This is a short, sweet, and HILARIOUS read about Cammie Morgan, a teen spy-in-training who can speak 14 languages, blend in with any environment, and kill you seven different ways, but has yet to crack what she and her contemporaries call “the boy code”.
The characters in this novel are simply delightful, and even though the concept of a boarding school for teenage spies is a little farfetched, Carter makes the secret wor More...
Dec 24, 2011
Suzanne
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I guess I was judging a book by its cover, as I couldn’t understand why this series is such a hit with the middle school girls. Reluctantly, I started to read…and promptly became engrossed. Yes, it is a light read but it is FUN. Cammie Morgan is a 15 year old sophomore at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. Unbeknownst to the town and everyone else, this school is really training spies. The girls take martial arts, speak 14 languages, hack computers and have fun with a lot of inte
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