Though the young adult genre is somewhat defined by romance, Carters real focus is on other things making her books perfect for the younger teen looking for a read with an older teen vibe. With several plot twists and unexpected developments, 'See How They Run' takes readers into the political history and dangerous world of Embassy Row. See How They Run takes that story to the next level, deepening the plot and introducing a whole new set of high stakes and a thrilling mystery for Grace and her Embassy Row friends. Grace Blakely, the granddaughter of the U.S ambassador living on Embassy Row in the country of Adria, has just discovered the details surrounding her mothers murder. Carters latest book, See How They Run (Scholastic, $17.99, ages 12 and up), the second book in the Embassy Row series, picks up immediately after All Fall Down left off. Your heist movies, your Mission Impossible, things like that, thats not what it really is to be a covert operative, but that is what our pop cultural perception of that is. There is nothing that happens in my books that technically couldnt happen in real life, Carter said, explaining what unrealistic realistic fiction means for her stories. Carter, who writes what she calls unrealistic realistic fiction such as The Heist Society, Gallagher Girls and, most recently, Embassy Row series, says she can't explain exactly why she loves writing about spies and espionage she's just always been drawn to stories like that.

I write spy books because I do things like that. I dont do things like that because I write spy books, Carter said in an interview. After hearing once that taking different routes to and from frequented locations makes it harder for kidnappers to nab their victims, thats exactly what Carter started doing. Anyone planning on kidnapping author Ally Carter can bet she won't make it easy for him or her.

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