# Spying on Miss Müller

**Author:** Eve Bunting
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1995
**Page count:** 179
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780395691724`
**ISBN-10:** `0395691729`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/spying-on-miss-m-ller
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem.

## Themes

- world war, 1939-1945
- fathers and daughters
- boarding schools
- schools

## Where this book is assigned

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 1997-1998 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 1997-1998 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 1997-1998 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

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