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ⓘ About Y.S. Lee
Y.S. Lee is a published author. She was born in Singapore and grew up in Vancouver and Toronto. She even lived for a brief time in England. As she finished her PhD in Victorian literature and culture, she started researching a story about a girl detective in London in the nineteenth century. The end result would be her debut novel, The Agency: A Spy in the House. It would win the Canadian Children’s Book Center’s John Spray Mystery Award in 2011. Her Agency quartet is published by Candlewick Press in the U.S. and Canada and Walker Books in the U.K. and Australia. Her books have also been translated into different languages, and these include Spanish, German, French, Italian, Turkish and Korean. In her other life as an academic, Ying penned Masculinity and the English Working Class.
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? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Y.S. Lee?
Y.S. Lee is a published author. She was born in Singapore and grew up in Vancouver and Toronto. She even lived for a brief time in England.
Which Y.S. Lee series should I start with?
The best place to start is The Agency series, the earliest of Y.S. Lee's multi-book series: it opens with A Spy in the House (2009) and runs to 4 books across 2009–2014, ending with Rivals in the City (2014).
How many books has Y.S. Lee written?
Y.S. Lee has 7 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2009 and 2019. 4 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being The Agency series with 4 books — and 3 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Y.S. Lee's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Y.S. Lee's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Agency (2009–2014, 4 books).
How are Y.S. Lee's books organised into series?
This guide splits Y.S. Lee's 7 books into 1 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Agency (4 books, 2009–2014).