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School Library Journal - 07/01/2015 Gr 4–6—Twelve-year-old Shelley and Jonathan are average kids: forgettable, normal, and looked over. In fact, many of their classmates have been going to school with them for years and would not be able to recognize them if they were stuck in an elevator together. However, their ordinariness is the qualifying trait that the League of Unexceptional Children is looking for. The League is a covert network of spies that are, well, unexceptional. The unexceptionals are the forgotten ones, the spies that can slip in and out of a room without anyone bothering to notice. After an inept security guard allowed the White House to be breached, several monumental things have happened: the vice president is missing, the nation's greatest spies are deactivated, and several confidential documents and data are compromised. Thankfully, Shelley and Jonathan are average, forgettable, but perfect additions to the League of Unexceptional Children. They have vowed to risk their lives for their country's liberties, all the while answering to the wrong name. From the best-selling author of School of Fear (2010) and the "Ghoulfriends Forever" series (both Little, Brown), comes a humorous middle grade novel that keeps readers giggling. The story flows easily through short chapters with interwoven art that further captures the humor of Jonathan and Shelley's case. VERDICT With humor that both girls and boys will enjoy, this likable book is a good fit for most collections.—Brittney Kosev, Dave Blair Elementary School, Farmers Branch, TX - Copyright 2015 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

Booklist - 10/01/2015 After someone breaks into the White House, kidnaps the vice president, and steals a vital computer code, the country’s most secretive spy agency recruits two undistinguished middle-school kids to solve the case and save the world. Growing up in a town full of overachievers, 12-year-olds Shelley and Jonathan are used to people forgetting their names and their faces, but that’s what qualifies them for the League of Unexceptional Children. They bumble through their training and, though they’re prepared to fail big, they succeed in the end. While the initial premise and some plot elements may be hard to swallow, everything else in this amusing chapter book goes down easy. Even with the fate of the world resting on their “slightly hunched” shoulders, the main characters are so disarmingly upfront about their inadequacies that they’ll definitely have readers on their side. Recommended for fans of Daneshvari’s School of Fear series as well as kids growing up in communities where “all the children are above average.” - Copyright 2015 Booklist.

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