Desert dark
By: Sonja Stone
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780823435623
Subjects: Schools; Boarding schools; Undercover operations; Spies; Fiction
Description: Sixteen-year-old Nadia Riley is delighted to earn a spot at an elite, government-funded boarding school.Nothing sounds better than leaving behind her fraught relationship with her ex-boyfriend and moving to faraway Arizona for a spot at Desert Mountain Academy. But the Academy is more than Nadia bargained for: it's a covert CIA program training high-achieving students for the Black-Ops. Nadia struggles to keep up in her new classes while gaining the trust of her assigned teammates. Things get worse when news leaks that there is a double agent on campus, and someone is framing Nadia. Nadia discovers dark secrets about her fellow teammates and learns one of them is the deserter.With a setting that is Hogwarts meets The Bourne Identity, this debut YA thriller will make readers mad with suspense.
Notes: 789Y Childrens Plus, Inc.