This is a terrific book for middle grade (5th grade and up) students who want a fast-paced, intelligent, current-events-based thriller. Young Q (short for Quest) and his new stepsister Angela are getting to know one another on a giant tour bus after their respective parents' (his mom, her dad) whirlwind courtship, record deal, concert tour, and marriage. While crossing the country, however, Angela realizes she is being followed, and the two new siblings are drawn into an international web of intrigue involving the Secret Service, the Israeli Mossad, a rogue band of former intelligence operatives, and US-based terrorism cell. The book is 8 years old, but could be set in 2016. It is smart, character-driven, and very twisty, touched by personal grief that is poignant but never overdone, and involves Angela's mother, thought to be killed by a terrorist group, but possibly alive after all. A one-sitting kind of book.
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