The Squad: Perfect Cover

The Squad: Perfect Cover
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Laurel-Leaf Books, 2008. 275 pgs. Young Adult

Toby Klein is somewhat of an outcast at her high school and she is fine with that. She loves her combat boots and hacking into important websites. But she never imagined that she would be recruited for the cheerleading team. What Toby quickly discovers, though, is that the squad is actually a cover for a group of underage operatives for the United States government (if the girls serve for two years in the squad, at the age of eighteen they become CIA operatives). Toby is unsure of this whole set-up, but discovers the cheerleading squad might not be so evil after all.

You might be tempted to think this is a rip-off of the Gallagher Girls series, but it has enough differences that it doesn’t feel like it. This was a quick and fun read about a girl discovering that outer appearances don’t always tell the whole story about someone or something.

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