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Framed! series.
Covert consultants for the FBI, twelve-year-old best friends Florian and Margaret (Framed!; Vanished!), return for a third caper. Here they must save their supervisor, Marcus, from taking the fall for a deep-cover Russian spy who has been using the Library of Congress to send secrets to the Russian embassy. This enthralling mystery about spies, libraries, and codes is cleverly spun with high stakes and amusing characters.
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4-6
Framed! series.
As consulting detectives for the FBI, twelve-year-old Florian Bates (Framed!) and his best friend, Margaret, go undercover at a private school to determine who's behind a series of pranks that might involve the Chinese government, the U.S. president's daughter, and a centuries-old secret society. This compelling mystery is one layer of many in a complex detective story that also explores middle-school social dynamics.