I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Gallagher Girls Series

Author: Ally Carter

Book 1 in the Gallagher Girls series

Pages: 284

Published: 2006

Age: 12+

The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women lives up to its name. Not only does this exclusive boarding school teach advanced language skills and correct deportment; its students also master the arts of tapping phones, hacking into computers, and spying in public places.

At school, second-generation Gallagher Girl Cammie Morgan has impeccable credentials: She is fluent in 14 languages and able to kill an assailant in seven different ways. But recently life has dealt Cammie a card that she never anticipated: She has fallen in love with an ordinary boy who knows nothing about her exotic double life... This may be her most dangerous mission yet.

Recognition:

Georgia Peach Honor Book Award (2007); Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee (2010)

About the Gallagher Girls Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You(2006)
  2. 2.Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy(2007)
  3. 3.Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover(2009)
  4. 4.Only the Good Spy Young(2010)
  5. 5.Out of Sight, Out of Time(2012)
  6. 6.United We Spy(2013)
  7. +Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story(2013)

Reading age: 12+ years

This series should be read in order.

Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school — that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class...

The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real "pavement artist" — but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her?