Ridley Pearson — Steel Trapp: The Academy

Hyperion Books 2010 Hardback, 416pp. Steven â€oeSteel” Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there’s a clubby element of the faculty and upper classmen that is very secretive and protective. To his surprise, his friend Kaileigh arrives at the school, and it isn’t long before the two realize that this is not your normal boarding school. It seems a select few students are recruited, while still minors, to serve as special â€oetranslators” for the US Government. People—including diplomats and dignitaries—will say things around kids that they wouldn’t otherwise dare speak outside of embassies. The willing student â€oeagent” takes a semester abroad and ends up spying for his country. But there are dark forces at play at the school. Foreign agents may have penetrated the school’s secrecy and have sleepers in place: kids spying on future kid spies. DJ. Dust jacket worn along the edges;. (ISBN: 9781423115328). Good.