Mission: In Search of the Time and Space Machine

by Deborah Abela

Book Overview

Max Remy is eleven and bored with her life. Her father went off to Hollywood and ends up married to a movie star and Max is left with her mother who works, works, works all the time. So Max invents Alex Crane, a super spy, and begins to fantasize about the life of a spy. Then horrors: Max's mother sends her off to live with her aunt and uncle on a farm for the entire summer. Dull, you think. But then she stumbles into a real spy ring, and uses her wits to outsmart the evil Mr. Blue. Max Remy is now a card-carrying member of the international organization Spy Force and the adventure has just begun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442430850
• ISBN13: 9781442430853
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A special kind of agent

If you thought all agents were cool and smart like James Bond or stupid and idiotic like Johnny English, think again!This new book is about the life of a sarcastic and modern agent: Max Remy.Max Remy is a rich kid and lives in her mother's posh city apartment.Her mother is a lot to do with famous personalities in Australia and Max's house is rather beautiful and modern.Max Remy's workoholic mum will be busy during the school holidays so Max Remy is sent to her uncle and aunt's farmhhouse in the Mindawarra.She meets up with her country relatives who she dislikes from first sight and wild boy Linden, until she finds out that her uncle and aunt are famous scientists and are working on a famous space and time machine!Max soon grows attached to her uncle and aunt and soon finds out that her uncle is still sad due to a argument he had 10 years ago with his elder brother, who was also a scientist.Max is determined to find her uncles's brother in London and bring him to Australia to see how sad he is without him using her uncle's time and space machine.Max and Linden go on a search to find her uncle's brother, but during the way they meet a beautiful university colleague who had been drawn down to become a lab assistant by an evil and unstoppable man, Mr Blue.Mr Blue wants to take over the world with the space and time machine and kidnap the two children, knowing that they have it.The two children wake up finding themselves in Blue's Industry.But when they meet Mr Blue they find themselves being lowered into a pit of jelly.Will they survive? A great read for any children for a little bit of quirky adventure