Spy Ski School

Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated <i>Spy School</i>, <i>Spy Camp</i>, and <i>Evil Spy School</i>.<br><br>Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen - he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive. His enemies have kidnapped him, shot at him, locked him in a room with a ticking time bomb, and even tried to blow him up with <i>missiles</i>. And he's survived every time.<br> <br>After all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real.<br> <br>The Mission: Become friends with Jessica Shang, the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss, and find out all of her father's secrets. Jessica wants to go to ski school in the Rocky Mountains, so a select few spy school students are going skiing too - under cover, of course.<br> <br>Ben might not be able to handle a weapon (or a pair of skis) , but he can make friends easy peasy. That is, until his best friend from home drops in on the trip and jeopardizes the entire mission ...