I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU by Ally Carter
    Category:  Action-Adventure
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 6+
    Release Date:  5/1/06
    Publisher:  Hyperion
    Reviewed by:  Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Welcome to The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, an all-girls school located just outside of
    Roseville, Virginia.  Anyone looking at this elite private boarding school would see just what The Gallagher Academy
    wants you to see--a preppy school for privileged girls, complete with a guardhouse and stone wall to keep the
    curious away from their precious charges.  And they'd be right, of course, and yet they would be so very, very
    wrong!

    Because The Gallagher Academy isn't exactly what it appears to be.  It's an elite school, that's for sure, and the only
    boys who grace its grounds are the male teachers.  After that, though, the similarities between The Gallagher
    Academy and every other elite boarding school in the world ends.  Instead of math and reading, English and
    horseback-riding, the girls who attend this school take courses in Covert Operations, Ancient Languages, Countries
    of the World, Culture and Assimilation, and Protection and Enforcement.  The Gallagher Academy is, in a word, a
    school for spies.

    Cammie Morgan is a second-generation Gallagher girl--her mother, who also attended the school, is now the
    headmistress.  Her two best friends, Liz and Bex, are both super-smart, and the best spies-in-training she knows
    (except for Liz's lack of coordination, but that's another story).  Cammie has spent most of her life inside the walls of
    The Gallagher Academy, and now that another semester is starting, complete with new CoveOps teacher, hunky Joe
    Solomon, she's really looking forward to the new school year.

    But then things start to get a little out of control.  Mr. Solomon seems to know all about Cammie's missing-and-
    presumed- dead father.  She meets a boy in town, Josh, who finally sees her, really sees her, like no one else ever
    has.  After all, she didn't get her nickname, "the chameleon," for nothing.  But now Cammie is balancing on a
    dangerous ledge--knowing that no one outside of the gates of The Gallagher Academy can ever know who she truly
    is, and wanting nothing more than to spill all of her secrets to Josh.

    As lies tangle with truths, as first love duels with obligation, Cammie will need to learn exactly what it means to be a
    spy, her mother's daughter, and a young girl falling in love.

    I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU is a wonderful, laugh-out-loud, action-
    adventure extravaganza.  Filled with plenty of cool gadgets, intriguing teachers, and heart-pounding first-love
    moments to keep the reader interested, you won't be able to put this book down once you start.  A true winner, and
    I definitely can't wait for a sequel!
I'd Tell You I Love You,
But Then I'd Have To Kill You
by Ally Carter