The master spy handbook : help our intrepid hero use gadgets, codes & top-secret tactics to save the world from evildoers

The master spy handbook Help our intrepid hero use gadgets, codes & top-secret tactics to save the world from evildoers

Rain Newcomb

Book - 2005

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Subjects
Espionage > Juvenile literature.
Spies > Juvenile literature.
Handicraft > Juvenile literature.
Published
New York : Lark Books/Sterling [2005]
Language
English
Main Author
Rain Newcomb (-)
Other Authors
Jason Chin, 1978- (illustrator)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
96 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781579906269
  • Foreword
  • How to Use This Book
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Vanished Video Game
  • Rubber Band Message
  • The Fine Art of Tailing
  • The Riddles of Recon Revealed
  • Disguised Camera
  • Invisible Ink
  • Leaf Disguise
  • Dead Drop
  • Signposts
  • The Perfect Periscope
  • Wet Pencil Writing
  • CD Case Holder
  • Soda Can Cover-Up
  • Chapter 2. The Missing Megabytes
  • Crossword Clues
  • Essential Spy Wear: Trench Coat
  • Spy Writing Kit
  • Morse Code
  • Light Signals
  • Seeing Through Walls
  • Listening Through Walls
  • Spyglasses
  • How to Shake a Tail
  • The Multiple-Agent Tail
  • Back-Up Disguises
  • Signal Bracelet
  • Wax Pencil Message
  • Chemist's Invisible Ink
  • Making a Decoy
  • Toothpick Alarm
  • The Rules of Rendezvous
  • Sticky Situations
  • Intruder-Proof Your Room
  • Picture Frame Message Holder
  • Chapter 3. The Cow Caper
  • Letter Code
  • Fake Wall
  • Book Safe
  • The Perfect Disguise
  • Change Your Size
  • Instant Telescope
  • False-Bottom Box
  • Night-Stalking Outfit
  • Crawling
  • Old Eyes
  • Old Mouth
  • Agent O's Super Secret Spy Notebook
  • Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Spy?
  • Rules to Spy By
  • Alert Yourself Alarms
  • The Hair Alarm
  • The Drawer Trap
  • The Book Trap
  • Cunning Codes
  • Inventing Codes
  • Disposing of Secret Messages and Ciphers
  • The Pocket Protector Code
  • Instant Messages
  • Invisible Invisible Ink
  • Punch Code
  • Devious Disguises
  • Successful Disguises
  • The Telephone
  • Checking for Fake Disguises
  • Dead Drops
  • Twiggy Message Disguise
  • Disgusting Disguises for Messages
  • Picture-Perfect Hiding Place: Part I
  • Picture-Perfect Hiding Place: Part II
  • Cool Spy Words
  • Ciphers
  • The Codes: Decoded
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

Gr. 4-7. To foil a supercrook and her burly henchmen, a kid makes use of more than 50 tried-and-true spy techniques, including elaborately coded messages, devious disguises, and concocted gadgets. The fictionalized first-person narrative is really just a vehicle for the real excitement: the espionage facts. With dramatic watercolor illustrations, each double-page spread conveys a wealth of information. Insets resembling case files fill readers in on what you need and what you do to write and read code (including Morse code), write in and read invisible ink, make a false wall, check if someone has searched a room, and much more. The codes start off simply but become very complicated, and more than half the book is back matter that includes more explanations and suggestions for top-secret ciphers and devices. Great fun for amateur sleuths, the book will also appeal to older ones who enjoy puzzles and sinister secrets. For more about codes, suggest Paul Janeczko's Top Secret (2004). --Hazel Rochman Copyright 2006 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Horn Book Review

Trading on the popularity of the Spy Kids films, this graphics-overloaded book offers a hokey story about Agent O, a student at the Spy Academy, who tries to thwart shadowy villain Felicia's plan to take over the world. Embedded in the strained story line are intriguing codes and code-breaking hints (solutions provided), disguise suggestions, and instructions for making gadgets. Glos., ind. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

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