About this item
Meet Eliza Boom - assistant inventor, junior spy, and full-on fantastic - as she tells all in this first book of a chapter book series packed with jokes, doodles, and dear-diary secrets!Eliza Boom is having a blast. Her father is an inventor who makes gadgets for spies, and Eliza is his unofficial assistant ... very unofficial. Eliza knows if she can just build that one indispensable thing that every secret agent needs, she can be a full-fledged spy herself, but somehow her inventions keep going wrong. Still, with her best friend (well, dog) , Einstein, shes not going to give up. When Elizas father loses a top-secret roll of film, Eliza realizes that she might have accidentally given it to class bully Zoe Wakefield, the Queen of Mean. Elizas got to retrieve the film, which Zoe is using as a hair bow, before enemy spies get to it. Luckily shes got Einstein as well as her own brand-new assistant (and friend) , Amy, to help her. Can these three would-be 007s get the film, stop the spies, and get revenge on the class bully? Theres only one way to find out - and thats to read Elizas diary!
About the Author
Emily Gale has been involved in the children's book industry for twenty years: the first decade in London as an editor and freelance writer, and the latter in Melbourne as a reader for a literary agent and a children's book buyer. She spent several happy years at Melbourne's award-winning bookstore, Readings, during which time she was instrumental in establishing their Children's Book Prize. Emily's writing includes Eliza Boom's Diary (2014) , a duology for younger readers which has been published in several languages, as well as four novels for teenagers: Girl, Aloud (2009) , Steal My Sunshine (2013) , The Other Side of Summer (2016) and its companion novel I Am Out With Lanterns (2018) . Find out more on her websites: http://emilygalebooks.com and http://theothersideofsummer.com
