In November, I read the book City Spies by James Ponti. City Spies is a adventure fiction book about a young girl named Sara Martinez and how she is a hacker that broke into the New York City foster care system to reveal to everyone that her foster parents were lawbreakers, for her actions would make her face many years juvenile detention. Mother, a British spy who helps her get out of jail and into M16, British Secret Intelligence. The City Spies are five kids from different parts of world. Sara finds herself hacking into a rival’s computer preventing them from winning a million euros, climbing thirty feet off a side of a building and trying to defeat a villain. While trying to navigate her new family’s dynamics.

I really enjoyed the book because I was so entertained throughout the whole story from all information about Sara and the City Spies. I loved how Sara is the newest member of the City Spies, she is one of the smartest people in the group and starting to feel more comfortable with the rest of the group. I liked at the end of the story Sara gave Mother her old snow globe of the Brooklyn lighthouse, to put it by the window so it can guide his children back to him.

Sara was my favorite character, because she was adventurous and intelligent. Sara knew she had to prove herself to the group so they would take her seriously. Sara was given a task to find the meeting point in Edinburgh, the other members of the group decided to spy on her to get their first impressions of Sara. They were watching her making her way through the city, she heads to a Jewelry store. They were watching her try on watches and when the saleswoman turned away, she put it in her backpack. They didn’t take any other information about her and just thought she’s a thief. Later when they’re at dinner they blurted out that she’s a thief, Mother and Sydney thought it wasn’t possible but Sara told them about why she was late. She gave mother the box because he lost his watch. When he opened it there was nothing. So she fooled the whole group, she explained how she fooled everyone. Sara was an intelligent character, and I can prove this quote “I’m sorry to have done this, but I had to prove to the others that I was up to the challenge. No matter what you and Sydney told them, they would’ve had their doubts about me.” (pg.111)

My favorite quote from the book is when Sara went to see mother and he was staring out the window. And Sara is figuring out how he found everyone while searching for his kids. Sara decided to give him a present. It was her old snow globe of the Brooklyn bridge, to put it by the window so it can guide his children back to him. He didn’t want to take it from her, since it helped her guide her family back to her. She tells him, “I don’t need it anymore, I found my family.” This is my favorite quote because this was very meaningful to Sara, and she always thought it would help her family find her, and her family did find her.