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Being a 16-year-old safecracker and active-duty daughter of international spies has its moments, good and bad. Pros: Seeing the world one crime-solving adventure at a time. Having parents with super cool jobs. Cons: Never staying in one place long enough to have friends or a boyfriend. But for Maggie Silver, the biggest perk of all has been avoiding high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations.

Then Maggie and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, and all of that changes. She'll need to attend a private school, avoid the temptation to hack the school's security system, and befriend one aggravatingly cute Jesse Oliver to gain the essential information she needs to crack the case . . . all while trying not to blow her cover.

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Gr 7 Up-Maggie is the new girl at a fancy New York City prep school, fresh off a safecracking gig in Iceland. Her current assignment is to infiltrate the family of a magazine publisher. There's romance, swanky settings, and a brassy sidekick named Roux. Especially for fans of Meg Cabot's "Airhead" series (Scholastic). Audio version available from Brilliance Audio.α(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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*Starred Review* Maggie, 16, is the daughter of spies and a spy herself, and she is particularly genius at cracking safes. What she has never been is an average teenager. So when her assignment from the Collective—the first she is doing on her own—involves attending private school in Soho, she is all over it. Her job is to get friendly with rich boy Jesse Oliver, whose dad may publish findings that will blow the cover of the Collective and steal the dossier. She doesn’t count on finding a crazy best friend, Roux, and developing feelings for Jesse, which makes milking him for information between kisses particularly icky. The connection between the revealing information and the Olivers is only a MacGuffin, but the mystery element does lead to an exciting, energetic, running-around-NYC ending. What’s really great about this, though, are the voices. Maggie’s smart and mostly sure first-person narrative is extended by the insights of bad, sad girl Roux and Maggie’s elegant spy handler, the British forger Angelo. Even if you don’t think you like spy stories, this one is fresh and fun. Grades 7-10. --Ilene Cooper

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0802733905
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Walker Childrens; 1st edition (February 26, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780802733900
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802733900
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 3 - 13 years, from customers
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ HL640L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.96 x 1.27 x 8.58 inches
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Robin Benway is a National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of six novels for young adults, including Far From the Tree, Audrey, Wait!, the AKA series, and Emmy & Oliver. Her books have received numerous awards and recognition, including the PEN America Literary Award, the Blue Ribbon Award from the Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books, ALA’s Best Books for Young Adults, and ALA’s Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. In addition, her novels have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly, and have been published in more than 25 countries. Her most recent book, Far From the Tree, won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the PEN America Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, PBS, Entertainment Weekly, and the Boston Globe. In addition, her non-fiction work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Bustle, Elle, and more.

Robin grew up in Orange County, California, attended NYU, where she was a recipient of the Seth Barkas Prize for Creative Writing, and is a graduate of UCLA. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Hudson.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely delightful and laugh out loud funny
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2014
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Completed: March 25, 2013
Publishing Info: February 26th 2013 by Bloomsbury Juvenile
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ALSO KNOWN AS was my first Robin Benway book and SHAME ON ME for waiting so long! I know you guys are all raving over AUDREY, WAIT! (which I own now, but still haven’t read yet) and praised Robin’s wit and delightful characters. NOW I GET IT. This book was flat out hilarious — jokes, sarcasm, banter – ALSO KNOWN AS had it all. I was literally laughing out loud reading this book and now I can’t wait to go read more of Robin Benway’s books!

ALSO KNOWN AS, as you probably know, is about Maggie — a sixteen year-old-spy who gets her very first solo assignment. Maggie is clearly the highlight of this book. Her personality and sense of humor make the reader feel at ease and really invested in her story as well. I instantly wanted to be BFFs with Maggie and so I was right by her side as she went through wacky hijinks, flustering friendships, and her very first kiss.

We’re talking about spies here, so you know there are going to be some twists and turns! I actually did NOT see the twist coming. I had written it off as a cute but simple story. Turns out, ALSO KNOWN AS has a few more layers than I anticipated! The only complaint I can make about the plot is that I wish a few more twists had been introduced earlier on to gather just a little more excitement. I was totally invested in the story already, but that extra little twist would have added the “knock-me-off-my-feet” aspect to the book for me!

All of the characters were pretty amazing and stood on their own two feet. Each one had a big personality and leapt off the page! Obviously we know I love Maggie (duh) but I also liked her friend Roux (okay, she was a tad much at times, but that was the whole point), her love interest/assignment Jesse Oliver, her clueless-on-how-to-raise-a-real-teenager parents, and her almost mentor/family friend Angelo. I adored Maggie’s relationship with Angelo. He’s a great person for her to turn to when she needs to step away from her parents, away from her friends/assignment/distractions and get an honest yet gentle answer. He’s always calm and very wise.

ALSO KNOWN AS was a very quick read, but in a good way. I didn’t want to put it down! It was filled with everything I love: humor, suspense, romance, awesome characters, and a twist to keep me guessing. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a fun read and I cannot wait to read AUDREY, WAIT! and more from Robin Benway!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Witty, Hilarious and So Much Fun
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2014
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4.5 Laugh Out Loud Stars

One thing that can really grab me in a book is the dialogue. If the dialogue is really good I will let some of the plot stuff slide since I’m having such a fun time reading through the characters conversations. I LOVED the hilarious dialogue in this book. Also, I want a teenager to sound like a teenager; I don’t need them to be sophisticated, there should be a general silliness to them as they are discovering language and how to communicate the abundance of new emotions and experiences. This book had that in spades and I giggled out right giggled at so many conversations and instances.

Maggie has lived an exotic life of intrigue and mystery in her sixteen years. Her parents are spies and she is a masterful safe cracker. She has had an unusual upbringing traveling all over the globe righting wrongs and getting the goods on the bad guys. But she has always been in the background, her parents do the intel work and then she comes in at the end to crack the safe and get the proof. That is until now. She had been given her first assignment as the front man and she is totally excited.

Holy crap!” I said. “Hallelujah, it’s a miracle! I finally get to do something besides watch everyone else have fun!” I raised my bagel in the air like an award, then pretended to wipe away tears. “This just means so much to me! I’d like to thank all the little people that I crushed on my way to the top.

Maggie has been home schooled her entire life but the assignment means that she will need to attend High School. I’m not sure that all her time as a spy has prepared her for this.

I have to say that I absolutely adored the characters and their relationships in this. First there is Maggie and her parents. They have always worked as a team and it has really been the three of them against the world. Maggie has been a remarkably easy teenager up until now, probably because she never had a relationship of any kind with anyone her own age, but it seems the game has changed and none of them are sure what to do.

“Look, I’m sorry, but what do you want?” I said. “You signed me up for this, so this is what I have to do. I have to go to Halloween parties and spend time with people! It’s my job!”
“It’s two thirty in the morning!” my mom cried. “In Manhattan! Do you know all the things that could have happened to you?”
I looked at my parents like they were speaking Korean. (And to be fair, my dad can speak Korean, so it wasn’t outside the realm of possibility.)

But it is always clear that they are trying and this is just new to all of them.

Maggie finally gets to make a friend her own age. Roux is absolutely positively fantastic and I want a friend just like her. She is a little bit of a mess but in the most fun way. Roux isn’t perfect she is lonely, drinks and had an unfortunate incident last year but I loved her all the more for it.

“Were you a Mean Girl?” I asked. “I saw the movie.”
Roux paused for a long time before finally saying, “Yes. I was a bitch to people. I talked about girls, made up rumors, all of that. Ever since fifth grade.”
“So now you’re persona non grata,” I said. “Wow. Social justice, like, never happens. I’m sorry!” I told her when she frowned and started to walk away. “I’m really sorry, it just slipped out.”
“Yes, please, enjoy my karmic retribution.

Who better to steer Maggie through the social jungle that is high school and also help her with Jesse Oliver her assignment that just happens to be a cute boy, the first cute boy who Maggie has had a non-imaginary conversation with. I loved the cute semi-innocent chemistry between them. They have a very natural playful banter that is perfect for that age.

I yelped and quickly moved to cover my hand. “It’s being resized at the jeweler’s!”
“I don’t want to make it weird or anything!” he said, even though we were both laughing by now. “I just couldn’t help but notice!”
“It was sending me into diabetic shock just by wearing it!” I cried. “I didn’t do it for me, I did it for us!”

There is also Angelo who I just adored. He is like your grandfather if your grandfather was a world renowned forger, with great taste in clothes, who draws picture clues for where you are supposed to meet. Maybe he isn’t even old enough to be your grandfather perhaps a super cool uncle or something. He always has Maggie’s back and I loved the time they spent together.

I had soooo much fun with this book. It isn’t all spying and espionage, but I never cared. It was a lot of time trying to get to the information wanted and discovering that it is hard to be a fake friend and have fake emotions when you really like the people you are spending time with and it is easy to get distracted from the mission when the cute boy who is your target is so much fun to spend time with.

“Are you insane?” my mother said to him. “What were you thinking!”
My dad closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. “Maggie,” he said, “explain to me again how you have a date.”
“Um, he asked?” No one said a word. “And I said yes?”

Plus Jesse Oliver was cute and sincere and a little bit dorkie but in the best way possibly. How could she possibly say no? He was like the cutest wounded puppy in the litter.

The only downfall to the entire book was possibly the lack of super spying. She is a wiz safecracker that means she doesn’t chase the bad guys. They have other people to do that. I really appreciate that they didn’t try to make her a self-defense expert or something like that. She is a teenage safe cracker with a few other spy related skills and she sticks to what she is good at.

I recommend this to anyone who wants a super fun, hilarious read that will have you giggling out loud. This is one of the better YA books I’ve read recently perfect for 12-18 age range, or the young at heart.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Also Known As- An amazing surprise read!
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2013
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I picked up this book because I'm a fan of spy books with a twist of romance, plus this book was only 3 dollars for the kindle addition.

Don't be fooled by the low price! This is one of the best books I've read in a long time.

A fan of the Gallagher Girls and Heist Society books, this was the perfect addition to suspenseful yet funny and romantic book. I constantly found myself laughing and smiling at myself. The lives of spy Maggie and her family were funny and intense, and the lives of Roux and Jesse were turned upsidown and hilarious. I've never even written a review before and I wanted to just because this book was so good. I'm very excited for Going Rogue, the next novel in this (hopefully ongoing) series!

A definite buy!! It's well worth your time!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Humorous, silly, and light-hearted read
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2013
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This is a humorous, light-hearted, and entertaining YA story that is worth reading. Never mind the ridiculous premise, it is fun to allow yourself to believe as the story unfolds and the characters come to life. It does it's job in keeping you engaged so long as you don't let your brain squelch it with reminders of how completely ridiculous the idea of a teenage spy is. Regardless, I was entertained and still feel it was worth reading.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sympa
Reviewed in France on December 24, 2014
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Un livre qui se lit vite mais dont je garderai pas un souvenir longtemps. Les relations sont mignonnes mais je m'attendais à des comportements plus réfléchis que des ados lambda. L'espionnage est seulement prétexte à l'émancipation de Maggy ! Une lecture sans prise de tête qui peut plaire a des ados.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Funny spy book for YA but the teenagers are too spoiled for my taste
Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2016
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Maggie Silver is a 16-year-old safecracker and daughter of international spies who work for the group called the Collective.
When she gets her 1st solo assignment as a spy at a private high school in New York, she's very excited. After she befriends with Roux & becomes smitten with her target, Jesse Oliver, it's becoming harder for Maggie to keep her cover while trying to collect the evidence from Jesse's father's safe.
While Maggie is a fun teenager girl, I don't like her new friends much, not about the binge drinking and devil-may-care attitude of spoiled rich kids.
I guess this series is written for YA, but the way these kids are drinking and skipping schools are not a good examples at all.
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Scotty68
1.0 out of 5 stars Same book, different title :-(
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2015
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BEWARE if you are buying this book from Amazon. One star is not for the book itself, but for Amazon. I bought this book for my daughter, who had read Spy Society by the author and loved it. Only when she started to read it did we realise that this is THE SAME BOOK under a different title. Amazon should really make it clear that this book has been published with two different titles (presumably one in the UK and one in the US?)
Very disappointing from Amazon not to be clear.
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