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  • Published: 28 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760895495
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 25 min
  • Narrator: Jacqueline Harvey
  • RRP: $15.99

Kensy and Max 5: Freefall

The bestselling spy series




Where do you draw the line when your family and friends are in grave danger? Do you take action even though it means ignoring the rules?

Back at Alexandria, with their friend Curtis Pepper visiting, Kensy and Max are enjoying the school break. Especially when Granny Cordelia surprises them with a trip to New York! It's meant to be a family vacation, but the twins soon realise there's more to this holiday than meets the eye.

The chase to capture Dash Chalmers is on and when there’s another dangerous criminal on the loose, the twins find themselves embroiled in a most unusual case. They’ll need all their spy sensibilities, along with Curtis and his trusty spy backpack, to bring down the culprit.

  • Published: 28 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760895495
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 25 min
  • Narrator: Jacqueline Harvey
  • RRP: $15.99

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About the author

Jacqueline Harvey

Jacqueline Harvey worked in schools for many years but has had a passion for storytelling since she was a child.

She is the author of the popular Alice-Miranda, Clementine Rose, Kensy and Max and Willa and Woof series, which have sold almost two million copies in Australia alone. In 2022, she released a picture book, That Cat, illustrated by one of her former students, Kate Isobel Scott. Jacqueline's books have received numerous shortlistings and awards while her picture book, The Sound of the Sea, was a CBCA Honour Book.

Jacqueline speaks to thousands of young people at schools and festivals around the world, and says the characters in her books are often made up of the best bits of children she’s met over the years. While she is not a twin, like Kensy and Max she does have excellent powers of observation and has always thought she’d make a great spy.

Jacqueline lives between Sydney, Australia, and Queenstown, New Zealand, and is currently working on more Willa and Woof adventures, several picture book projects and an exciting new middle-grade story.

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Praise for Kensy and Max 5: Freefall

Hold onto your seats for another major adrenalin rush in this new top-notch adventure of twins Kensy and Max, young agents-in-training! Again Jacqueline Harvey has hit the right chord with her mix of high-octane adventure, a good sprinkling of humour and some pithy observations on human character. And as with previous books in this series readers are introduced to yet another cipher to add to their repertoire. All in all, who could want for more?

Just So Stories

This series is filled with fast-paced action, complex plots and interesting and intriguing characters. Kensy and Max are inspiring in their ability to achieve anything they put their mind to. With lots of travel, maps, a cast list, codes and extensive case notes there is certainly a lot of fuel for those with big imaginations. This is a series that we highly recommend for all 9+ readers.

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