Spy Ski School (Spy School)

Product Description

Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this bestselling follow-up to the Edgar Award–nominated Spy School, Spy Camp, and Evil Spy School.

Thirteen-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 missiles. And he’s survived every time.

After all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real.

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.

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…

Top Reviews

Best Book Of The Series So Far
by Amazon Reviewer (5 out of 5 stars)
October 29, 2016

How can I start?

I have to note that in all of the Spy School books so far, the plot can be divided in three main themes: the action, the humor and the relationships.

I'll start from the action.

This time the movement of the story was simply EPIC. The beginning seemed a little too "normal", and the return of the Pirncipal (intentional mistake) was kind of annoying but funny.

However, there's a different feel to this book respect to the others; far from SPYDER, an actual sanctioned operation, Mike's return.

All three of the themes have "elevated" in this fourth book.

For once, the mission is a real mission, which gives it a sort of "professional feel" to it: no more escaping SPYDER, no more weird job offerings or such.

The action starts right away, with investigation, infiltrations and very funny undercover conversations.
*SPOILER* And when I mean the action elevated, it elevated: nuclear bombs, helicopters and machine guns.

A lot more action scenes compared to the other books, I think- and with the combination of snow, skis and menacing bodyguards makes it an exciting and enjoyable read.

The "villains's big scheme" is well thought of too; one of the hardest things of writing a spy book, to me, is to create a believable scheme. Not something too silly nor ridiculous (like world domination), but a plan acceptable and carefully crafted.

Now let's move on to the humor.

Not a single one of Stuart Gibbs's books lacks humour; in the worst situations or in a tense moment, there are always funny side remarks or comments (when Warren clocked his head and was like "I want a pony")

Most of the humour, this time, was directed toward Erica- *SPOILER* from her personality flipping like a coin whenever she went undercover, or actual her mistakes, or even when Zoe tried to spark a conversation about "girl talk" and Erica was like what the heck are you talking about??

It's kind of too bad though, as Erica's one of my favorite characters and seeing her act as the craziest teenager ever (even if just a cover) was both hilarious and unsettling.

Then, finally, the relationships.

I was betting a million dollars that Ben would get yet another crush on the enemy agent.

And it did, as everyone predicted.

Jessica is an interesting character- as always, not much of a description except that she has hair and is comparable to Erica, but that's even more vague because there wasn't much description of Erica either.

She seems very...real. Not that the others seem fake; she's a well crafted character who will probably appear in the future.

It's revealed that Zoe absolutely dislikes Warren, poor him, but I take that back because he was being a jerk the whole time.

As for Mike, his presence definitely turned the tables; the part where he was calculating which girl was better was pretty funny.

He's a smart kid, probably worthy of joining the Spy Academy, which will be interesting to see how Ben will react to that.

And of course, I can't skip the big Stuart-Gibbs-trademark cliffhanging ending and the jump of Ben&Erica's relationship, can I?

I had accidentally read a comment and spoiled the discovery, but that part was still unexpected and epic.

To finish up, this was, in my opinion, the best book of the series so far.

Things have really elevated, more characters have risen up in importance, more questions remain unanswered.

But if anyone can continue the series and keep up the awesomeness, I'm sure Stuart Gibbs won't disappoint us.
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Favorite series for 8-10 year old boys
by smiley (5 out of 5 stars)
October 21, 2016

My 10 year old was drawn into the spy school series a couple of years ago (and he has also drawn me in!) So when he somehow learned that spy ski school was coming out, he because obsessed with getting a copy as soon as possible. There was a countdown for the release date in my household. This book exceeded expectations. Although i've only read it once, my son read it three times within the first week!
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Spy ski school
by Kindle Customer (5 out of 5 stars)
October 16, 2016

Spy Ski School was another amazing book by Stuart Gibbs.I liked the book because of all the excitement. There is kissing, defusing bombs and a whole lot more. But if I told you it would give away the story. I recommend this book to middle schoolers. I hope you choose to read it.
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... of the series to see if my son would like them, and I thought he would
by C. L. Ruckman! (5 out of 5 stars)
November 1, 2016

I read the first book of the series to see if my son would like them, and I thought he would. He did, and hence I pre-ordered this one. He loves this series, and is very excited to read them. He is 11, and reads at a 8th grade level. Some great humor. They are slightly on the long side, so if you have a slower reader at home might be a little intimidating for them seeing wow that is long, but it is one of those book that is worth it, and I'd still suggest introducing it to your kid, because might not be ready now to finish it, but one that they'll remember and pick back up when they are ready.
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Series worth buying!
by senorads (5 out of 5 stars)
December 30, 2018

My students love these books! They talk about the stories all the time and ask me to buy them constantly. Great for students 2nd-5th!
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My 10 year old son LOVES these. He loves ...
by Tmom (5 out of 5 stars)
April 16, 2017

My 10 year old son LOVES these. He loves spy anything and also loves to read. It can be hard to find books that meet his expectation and are appropriate for his age. But he is loving these.
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Another good book
by Rangerkern (4 out of 5 stars)
October 12, 2016

This is another good spy book. This is really good book. It is a little different from some of the other series. I think people of all ages would enjoy this book.
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Good read (subjective to the readers point of view)
by seb str (5 out of 5 stars)
December 27, 2016

Indeed I can confirm this is a book. All the intended words the author wanted on the pages seemed to be there. The cover and pages were in good form, not torn and nowhere did I notice the ink run. As for the content and story, well you will just have to read it.
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Another Great Spy School Book
by Best Aunt Ever (5 out of 5 stars)
August 18, 2017

Read this book with my niece; we both enjoyed it. Highly recommend reading the other books in the series (especially Spy School) first. We are eagerly awaiting the next book in the series--scheduled to be released in a couple months. Book contains lots of action and social interaction. Eleven year old read this very easily. Would be suitable for younger readers.
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Awesome book
by Liam (5 out of 5 stars)
June 13, 2017

Awesome book that kept me entertained for hours. I got it for my son, but after he said he liked it so much, I decided to read it, and I got attached quickly. Great book.

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