Blog Post Number Three - Identifying Theme

In the book 'Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy' by Ally Carter,

Cammie and her three best friends - Lex, Bex and Macey, are back from winter break and ready to start the new semester at The Gallagher Academy for Acceptional Young Women. But Cammie has come back to the school with a lot of weight still hanging on her shoulders, from last semester. With her breaking up with Josh and all. But she has to let that go. But when they get back, Cammie's mom - also known as the headmistress of the school - and Mr. Solomon - the HOT Cove-Ops teacher - are whispering about a Black Thorn or Blackthorne. The girls are extremely suspicious about it. Especially since it could mean that THERE COULD BE A SECERET SPY SCHOOL... FOR BOYS!!! But that's a one-in-a-million chance.

But of course, the girls try to crack the code and find out all of the information they can about Black Thorn or Blackthorn. They NEED to find out what the seceret is. And they know that it has to be important because Cammie's mom won't even tell her own daughter.

So the girls devise a plan - Cammie is going to spy on her mom, during their traditional Sunday dinner in HER OFFICE. When Cammie got into her mother's office, she wanted to back out of the plan because, her mother is/was a spy too!!! And Cammie obviously doesn't want to get caught. Especially by her own mother!

But boy does she find evidence! Not only did she find snot filled tissues in her moms trash, but she also found a picture of her dad and Mr. Solomon (when they were a bit younger), and Mr. Solomon's shirt said Blackthorn on it!!! And Mr. Solomon DID say that he went to a school just like The Gallagher Academy but it was for boys! So, THAT concludes what Blackthorne is - A SECERET SPY SCHOOL FOR BOYS!

I think that the theme for this part of the book is, snoopy and excided because the girls NEED and want to know everything and all they can about the Blackthorn Institute. So badly, that they make Cammie spy on her own mother. But I thoguht that it was good practice for them just in case they actually had to do something like that in the future.