Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
My Grandparents are Secret Agents
Scott Christian Sava · 2009
74/100
👍 Worth It
The premise — your seemingly boring grandparents are actually elite spies — is the kind of concept that makes a reluctant reader pick up a graphic novel without being asked, and School Library Journal's Good Comics for Kids endorsement confirms it delivers. At 104 full-color pages it is a complete graphic novel experience rather than a sampler, and the humor works for both kids and the adults reading alongside them. The plot is thin and the art is workmanlike, but those are reasonable trade-offs for a book that genuinely gets middle-graders reading.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety97
substance62
craft65
originality72
accuracy80
hype72
age-fit88
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict74
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