Sekret (Sekret, #1)
Category: Fiction
Author: Lindsay Smith
Genres: 1960s, Communist Russia, Fiction, Psychic Abilities, Spies, Teens & Young Adult
Series: Sekret
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's
An empty mind is a safe mind. Yulia knows she must hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive in Communist Russia. But if she sometimes manipulates the black market traders by reading their thoughts when she touches their skin, so what? Anything to help her survive. Russia's powerful spy agency, the KGB, is recruiting young people with mind-reading capabilities for their psychic espionage program. Their mission: protect the Soviet space program from American…
368 Pages
Publisher: Square Fish
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book is set in the 1960s. A group of teenagers with psychic abilities are taken from the families and create a team of spies. They are tasks with trying to undermine the United States space program so Sputnik can be the first to land on the moon. Yulia tries to escape but is caught and had to see another spy murdered to protect their secret.
The book is written in first person point of view. The story is very detailed, and the characters are developed. The author does a good job making the reader feel as if they were back in the 1960s. If you like spy stories, you will enjoy this book.
