{"id":4950,"date":"2025-07-19T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4950\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:32:09","slug":"top-5-spy-books-for-kids-chosen-by-cecily-sawyer-author-iona-rangeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/4950\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 spy books for kids, chosen by Cecily Sawyer author Iona Rangeley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author of Einstein the Penguin and Cecily Sawyer: How To Be A Spy, Iona Rangeley is a former winner of the Spark! Book Award for fiction ages 7-plus, voted for by readers \u2013 so she knows what young espionage enthusiasts are looking for.<\/p>\n

Here she gives us her tips for spy books for children<\/a> whose imaginations are fired up by stories of undercover intrigue<\/p>\n

Ruby Redfort<\/a> by Lauren Child\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ruby is the ultimate fantasy for wannabe spies. She\u2019s smart, sarcastic, loaded with cool gadgets and even has a spy butler \u2013 not to mention a toaster that receives secret messages. I loved the Clarice Bean books as a child and Ruby was Clarice\u2019s hero: she would probably be Cecily Sawyer\u2019s, too.<\/p>\n

The Mysterious Benedict Society<\/a> by Trenton Lee Stewart\u00a0<\/p>\n

I came across this via the Disney show (wrong way round, I know). It\u2019s a fun, funny series about a ragtag quartet of kids with extraordinary talents who must infiltrate an evil boarding school to put a stop to its headmaster\u2019s plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gallagher Girls<\/a> by Ally Carter\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another spy boarding school, but not an evil one this time. My friends and I loved these books when we were 14 and even used Cammie and her gang\u2019s \u201cagent nicknames\u201d for each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author of Einstein the Penguin and Cecily Sawyer: How To Be A Spy, Iona Rangeley is a former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134,6679,6680,6681],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-espionage","tag-from-the-magazine","tag-top-5-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}