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Age Group: Middle Grade Genre: Action/Thriller Publishing Date: October 25th, 2016 by HarperCollins Summary:   Ryan Quinn hopes his traveling days are over. The son of a United Nations worker, he’s grown up in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa—everywhere but home. He’s finally settled at a great school in New York and is making friends when, suddenly, his world is turned upside down. Ryan is blindsided when his father disappears and his mother is abducted. Left with nothing but questions, he soon discovers his parents have been leading a double life. They actually work with the Emergency Rescue Committee, an underground organization that has performed dangerous rescue missions since World War II, and they’ve been secretly training Ryan to follow in their footsteps. With his parents’ lives in the balance and more at stake than he knows, Ryan dives into a mission of international intrigue that sends him around the globe. To survive, he must trust his trainin...

So for you MMGM visitors, this is a YA book, yeah I know I'm supposed to be doing MG, but give me a break. I'm just letting you know to...prepare yourselves (I tried to keep my review PG, but this book is YA for a reason) Age Group: Middle Grade Genre: Action/Thriller Publishing Date: October 4th 2011 by Harper Teen Summary : Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive. Where breaking the rules equals death. But when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape—his only real hope for survival—may be impossible What I liked : I especially liked the part of how Benson is just in his own world...