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The spy wore shades
By Freeman, Martha E.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06029-270-6
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins, 2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2001
Gr 4-7 Dougie Minners, 11, spends a lot of time in the hills and woods near his home. One day, he finds a girl named Varloo, oddly dressed, pale and plump, and very wet and bedraggled, curled up on the rocks next to the creek. After he helps her to safety, he learns that she is a spy sent from Hek, an underground civilization that has inhabited the caves below Calaveras County for several hundred years. Every 50 years they send up a spy to learn what changes in the civilization above might be important to them. Now ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
