The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill

Name: The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Megan Frazer Blakemore
ISBN: 9781490626994

Author: Megan Frazer Blakemore

Narrator: Meredith Orlow

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/04/2014

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Mystery & Detective, Children's Social Themes, Historical Stories

Synopsis

Hazel Kaplansky and new student Samuel Butler investigate rumors that a Russian spy has infiltrated their small Vermont town, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, but more is revealed than they could ever have imagined.

About Megan Frazer Blakemore

Megan Frazer Blakemoregrew up in a college town in New Hampshire much like the one in her book Very in Pieces. She attended Columbia University, where she earned a degree in English. After brief stints in the Peace Corps and the television industry, she pursued a master's in library science at Simmons School of Library and Information Science. She has over ten years' experience as a librarian and has taught writing to students in elementary through graduate school. She lives in Maine with her husband, two children, a cat, and two hives of bees. She is the author of books for teens and young readers, including Secrets of Truth & Beauty, an Indie Next Kids' Pick; The Water Castle, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill; and Good and Gone.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy on October 15, 2014

Really did not care for this book; I disliked Hazel as well as almost all the other characters. Numerous oddities seemed to spring out (yet ANOTHER reference to a librarian having a master's degree--enough with the Education, okay? sincerely doubt a ten-year-old girl would have noticed, known, or ca......more

Goodreads review by Barb on February 23, 2015

We went to Hawaii for a week and I read eight books and decided to write the reviews when I got back. Great plan except this book is a blank slate or blank plate. I'm hungry. I had to go back and reread other reviews to remind myself what it was about. Like butter on top of a pancake, the characters......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on May 08, 2014

Review first published on RedeemedReader I thoroughly enjoyed Blakemore's The Water Castle which just came out last year. So, when I had the chance to scoop up her next one as a pre-publication copy at ALA this January, I jumped at it. Spy Catchers is geared to a slightly younger audience than Water......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on February 17, 2014

Hazel Kaplansky is a growing up in scary times: the McCarthy era of secrets and spies. Hazel, a ten year old only child, is taking the circumstances very seriously, secretly converting a mausoleum into a bomb shelter and watching carefully for suspicious and traitorous acts within her hometown. Her......more

Goodreads review by Meredith on July 24, 2014

I was hoping for more of a mystery with more clues, but it came to a satisfying ending. My favorite parts were probably when Hazel was extolling the virtues of libraries and herself: p. 45: If her parents were ever to die in a horrible, tragic accident, she hoped that Miss Lerner would adopt her, and......more