Today, I have the honor of sharing this awesome book! The Agent's Daughter is a thrilling and mysterious read with a lot of action and characters that won a place in my heart! This is definitely a book that you are going to want to pick up as soon as possible!
Title: The Agent's Daughter
Series: N/A
Author: Ron Corriveau
Published: March 18, 2013 by Geek Parade Books
Melina has been preparing for a future career as a spy.
She just doesn’t know it.
Legendary spy Evan Roberts always knew that his fifteen-year-old daughter Melina also possessed the absolute lack of fear required of an agent. Without telling her his real profession or his intention, he began to guide her toward an eventual career as a spy. However, Melina’s world is shattered after her mom is involved in an accident that leaves her mysteriously unhurt but unresponsive. Her father’s plans on hold, Melina settles into life at a suburban high school, immersing herself in a world of schoolwork, her friends and a budding romance with Alex, the cute new guy in her class.
When Melina and her father uncover shocking new information about her mother’s accident, Melina is pulled deep into her father’s shadowy world. With Alex desperately trying to find her and only hours to go before it will be too late to save her mother, Melina and her father work together using their combined skills to find a way to reach her.
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Excerpt from The Agent's Daughter
Melina
spent a few moments fidgeting in her seat while she monitored the door. Then
she remembered she had a few pages left in her book, so she took it out and
began to read. After a few minutes, out of the corner of her eye, Melina saw
the stool next to her move.
“Is
anyone sitting here?”
Melina
looked up to see Alex standing next to her, holding the stool.
“No,
please. Sit down,” Melina said, motioning toward the chair with an open hand.
Alex
sat down and reached into his backpack for his notebook. “Did you get an answer
to the extra credit question on last night’s homework?”
Melina
sat there without saying a word. Hundreds of thoughts raced through her mind.
The thought at the top of the list was that he wanted to sit by her. That meant
that he did not think she was nuts. Next, his first topic of conversation was
routine talk about homework. That meant that the incident yesterday was not
worth talking about. It was behind them.
Alex
looked up from his notebook. “Melina? Did you get an answer to the extra credit
question?”
Melina
finally stopped staring into space, and looked over at Alex. “Oh… yes. If you
subtracted out the force due to friction of the tires on the pavement, the
answer came out correct.”
“Oh,
man,” Alex sighed as he put his head down on the workstation. “I can’t believe
that I did not think of that.”
“Don’t
worry,” Melina said, putting her hand on Alex’s shoulder. “I don’t always get
the extra credit problem. Mr. Clary tries to make that problem extra hard. Most
of the time you have to go back to one of the previous chapters for an equation
or piece of information to solve the problem.”
“Okay.
Everybody take out your textbooks and turn to page fifty-two.”
It was Mr. Clary. He was speaking from behind his desk at
the front of the room. Melina had not noticed him come in. She also just
noticed that she still had her hand on Alex’s shoulder. She withdrew it
quickly, although she did not know why.
“Chapter
three. Magnetism,” Mr. Clary said as he wrote the word magnetism on the board. “Today is the first day of a new unit. The
unit on magnetism will last two weeks. As in the previous units, each of you
will be paired with a classmate for the lab portion of the unit.”
There
was a noticeable rumbling in the classroom. In other classes, if there was a
two-person project, then the teacher let the students work out with whom they
were paired. Mr. Clary insisted on a random assignment of the students that
were to work together. He said that it forced the students to be exposed to
work habits that they may not have seen before. He was right, but Melina still
thought of it as a school version of Mystery Date. Her last lab partner was one
of the legendary ‘slacker boys’. They were so called because they spent more
time playing with their portable game players than helping with the assignment.
Mr.
Clary sat back down at his desk and consulted his list of students. “All right.
When I call your name, I want you to move to the workstation where your partner
is located. I’ll leave it to you which of the two of you have to move.”
More
rumbling. The tension was building.
“Martinez
and Bass.”
Maria
Martinez gave Derek Bass a look that said she was not going anywhere. Derek
moved to her workstation.
“Barrett
and Green.”
Jeff
Barrett and Mitch Green both jumped up, moved toward each other and high-fived
when they met at the middle of the room. This made sense. They were in the
computer club together.
“Roberts
and Winfield.”
Melina
froze. Her partner was Alex. It was what she wanted, of course, but then she
began to panic. She remembered that lab partners end up spending a considerable
amount of time together. At each other’s houses. Was she ready for that level
of exposure?
“Okay, where do you want to sit?” Alex said toward
Melina.
Melina
almost didn’t get the joke. “Well… I guess we could sit at this table.”
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