Mission: In Search of the Time and Space Machine (Spy Force, 1)

By Deborah Abela

Book Overview

Make room, James Bond -- Max Remy is an eleven-year-old superspy ready for action. Max may look like your typical kid, but she isn't. In truth she's a world-class superspy involved in a dangerous mission with the international agency Spy Force. When Max's mother sends her off to visit Aunt Eleanor and Uncle Ben for summer vacation, Max and her friend Linden encounter a Time and Space Machine that can carry them anywhere in the world. Dare they test their fate?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689873573
• ISBN13: 9780689873577
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A special kind of agent

If you thought all agents were cool and smart like James Bond or stupid and idiotic like Johnny English, think again!This new book is about the life of a sarcastic and modern agent: Max Remy.Max Remy is a rich kid and lives in her mother's posh city apartment.Her mother is a lot to do with famous personalities in Australia and Max's house is rather beautiful and modern.Max Remy's workoholic mum will be busy during the school holidays so Max Remy is sent to her uncle and aunt's farmhhouse in the Mindawarra.She meets up with her country relatives who she dislikes from first sight and wild boy Linden, until she finds out that her uncle and aunt are famous scientists and are working on a famous space and time machine!Max soon grows attached to her uncle and aunt and soon finds out that her uncle is still sad due to a argument he had 10 years ago with his elder brother, who was also a scientist.Max is determined to find her uncles's brother in London and bring him to Australia to see how sad he is without him using her uncle's time and space machine.Max and Linden go on a search to find her uncle's brother, but during the way they meet a beautiful university colleague who had been drawn down to become a lab assistant by an evil and unstoppable man, Mr Blue.Mr Blue wants to take over the world with the space and time machine and kidnap the two children, knowing that they have it.The two children wake up finding themselves in Blue's Industry.But when they meet Mr Blue they find themselves being lowered into a pit of jelly.Will they survive? A great read for any children for a little bit of quirky adventure