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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

BOOK REVIEW: ETIQUETTE & ESPIONAGE

ETIQUETTE & ESPIONAGE
Gail Cooper
Scholastic
2013

Available: Hard copy, paperback, Kindle

    Set in Victorian times, fourteen-year-old Sophronia does not behave like the other young ladies of her era. It's like she's been placed out of time. Instead of serving tea, embroidering, and having polite conversation, she'd rather climb a trees or dismantling a piece of machinery to see how it works. Her hoyden behavior is most embarrassing to her very proper mother. So it doesn't come as too much of a surprise when she is sent off to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality to learn proper deportment.  What is a surprise is the school. Instead