# The Year of Secret Assignments

**Author:** Jaclyn Moriarty
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 2010
**Page count:** 351
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781417731350`
**ISBN-10:** `1417731354`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-year-of-secret-assignments
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In this epistolary novel, three Aussie private school girls enter a pen pal program that leads to friendship, love, mischief, mystery, and revenge. The Ashbury-Brookfield pen pal program is designed to bring together the two rival schools in a spirit of harmony and "the Joy of the Envelope." But when Cassie, Lydia, and Emily send their first letters to Matthew, Charlie, and Sebastian, things don't go quite as planned.

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2005-2006 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2005-2006 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2005-2006 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2005-2006 winner (High)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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