🌉 GOLDEN GATE

Genre: Middle Grade • Spy Fiction • Mystery • Adventure
Recommended Age: 8–12 • Grades 3–7
Themes: Teamwork • Courage • Espionage • Friendship • Environmental Conservation

by James Ponti

The City Spies are back—and this mission is going undercover.

After stopping a dangerous villain at an eco-summit in Paris, the City Spies return for another high-stakes mission. Based at a secret headquarters in Scotland, this team of young MI6 agents uses skills adults can't match to infiltrate places no ordinary spy could reach.

Fourteen-year-old Sydney, a surfer and rebel from Bondi Beach, is the team's field operations specialist. Her next assignment takes her undercover aboard the marine research vessel Sylvia Earle.

But when the mission doesn't go according to plan, Sydney and the rest of the City Spies find themselves facing a new threat—and they'll need every skill, trick, and