Ally Carter in Dallas!

Good news for fans of Ally Carter, author of the Gallagher Girls seriesand Heist Society. She will make a trip to the Dallas/Fort Worth area on May 22nd. Follow this link to her website for more info.


If you haven't read any of Ally's books, just click on these links to see which branch of the library has it, or to place a request for one:

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You	Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy
Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover	Heist Society

Teen Review by Hannah... I'd Tell You I'd Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

I just finished reading I'd Tell You I'd Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, the 1st book in a series by Ally Carter. It's a really girly book about a girl and her problems at school. But this is not just another school - it's the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Woman. To the surrounding citizens of Roseville, it's just a school for rich delinquents. But only those who learn and work there know it's actually a school for spies. Yes, you heard me correctly. Instead of normally history and math classes, they have Covert Operations and Countries of the World classes.

Cammie 'The Chameleon' is a sophomore at the Academy, and the headmistress is her mother. After she meets a cute guy named Josh at a surprise spy mission in Covert Operations, she decides that she must see him again. She sneaks out several times using many different secret corridors and super-sneaky abilities to meet him. Josh and Cammie become close - almost too close, considering Cammie is a spy. All she tells him is lies about her life, and he believes her.

But when Josh discovers her secrets after another spy mission, and she finds out that her mom and the Covert Operations teacher already knew about her relationship with Josh, she's worried about what the outcome and punishment will be. Will they erase Josh's memory of all this? Will she never see Josh again? You'll just have to read it to find out.

The Ninja Reviews. . .Heist Society by Ally Carter

If you saw my blog about the books I’m most looking forward to in 2010, then you will remember that Heist Society by Ally Carter was right up there at the top of my list. I LOVE Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girl series so I was curious to see what else she had up her writer’s sleeve. Well, my little peeps, I was not disappointed.

Katarina Bishop is a normal fifteen-year-old girl (if you consider being a cat burglar of the first order normal). You see she is part of an elite crime family who has been responsible for some of the most infamous art thefts in history. But she has decided to leave her life of crime behind and run away to an exclusive boarding school on the East coast. Just when she believes her life has become the boring and staid existence she longs for, events beyond her control yank her security out from under her and thrust her head-first back into the life she swore to leave behind.

Kat’s father is accused of stealing four paintings from a private collector, the notoriously evil mob boss, Arturo Taccone. Taccone locates Kat and insists that he will harm her father if she does not find his missing paintings. The problem is his paintings were last seen 60 years ago in Nazi Germany. How is Kat going to steal back stolen paintings? Well, she is going to have to gather her family and friend, Hale (the hunky boy who might or might not be her boyfriend), and plan the scam of the century. Throw in a little betrayal , the Louvre, and Interpol agents and you have the perfect recipe for a brainteasing thriller of a story. Think: a teenage version of Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen!

This is a very fast paced and jet setting novel. I love that the action in the novel takes place during the two-week deadline set by Taccone. Ally has even grouped the chapters in such a way as to show what each day of the countdown to the deadline brings. I also love that Kat and her gang are running all over Europe and the United States trying to put together the perfect operation. I truly appreciate stories with historical significance and Ally does a great job bringing to light the continuous search for family treasures stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Oh, and FYI, the movie rights for Heist Society have already been purchased so read it before you see it.

Review written by Angela

The Ninja Reviews. . .The Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter

The ivy covered walls of the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women looks like any other girl’s school. But looks can be deceiving as those walls house a school for spies. At Gallagher Academy, the students are taught chemical warfare, advanced martial arts, and code breaking.

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You
Cameron Morgan is a legacy—her parents were CIA operatives and her mother is the current headmistress of Gallagher Academy. Cammie, aka “Chameleon”, is a “pavement artist” and is an expert at hiding in plain sight. She speaks fourteen languages and can kill a man in seven different ways, but she has no idea how to talk to a boy. It takes all of Cammie’s friends and their exceptional skills as Gallagher Girls to navigate the relationship with her first boyfriend, Josh.


Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Cammie Morgan is back with all of her girl friends for another year at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. Along with their descent into the secret sub-level two, the girls are thrown together with their biggest rivals—the boys of the Blackthorne Academy.




Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Cammie, Bex, and Liz thought their summer was going to be fun and relaxing, but that was before they were assigned to guard Macey on the campaign trail. A kidnapping attempt and run in with the boys of Blackthorne Academy raises more questions as to who is really in danger and from whom.



This series is smart and funny and feeds the inner “Gallagher Girl” in all of us!

Review written by Angela!