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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him. And if he succeeds, who will save Pete from his massive crush on Callie Midwood?"--
Author
Series
Spy school volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben's unexpected success outside the classroom causes the CIA to activate him for a mission to become friends with Jessica Shang, daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War-and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious:...
Author
Series
Spy toys volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fresh from the success of their first mission, our heroes the Spy Toys - Dan the Snugaliffic Cuddlestar Bear, Arabella the Loadsasmiles Sunshine Doll and Flax the custom-made police robot rabbit - are ready for their next task. This time, the secret code that controls every Snaztacular Ultrafun toy has been stolen and all over the world toys are revolting and turning against the children who own them. Can Arabella disguise herself as a super-sweet...
Author
Series
Beatrice Bly's rules for spies volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Beatrice Bly isn't just a spy. She's a super spy. She knows all the rules. She sneaks. She observes. She follows the clues to find the culprit. But when the class hamster, Edgar, goes missing, will Beatrice's spy training be enough to find out what happened?"--Inside front dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Against a backdrop of Harlem Renaissance and Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, a young man tails Hubert Julian -- a pilot, inventor, adventurer, charlatan, and possible threat to America. Facing an attempted murder charge, seventeen-year-old Arthur Tormes is in no position to refuse when a federal agent named Riley Triggs offers him a deal: All charges get dropped and Arthur goes free if he agrees to help the bureau with a problem. The problem is Hubert...
Author
Language
English
Description
Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him.
Author
Series
Tom Locke novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this pulse-pounding third action thriller for fans of Brad Thor and David Baldacci, a man must stop traitors-and former colleagues-who are determined to overthrow a U.S. president"--
50) Ark angel
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
51) The assassins
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After noticing a man dressed in his clothes being killed in a hit-and-run accident, former military spy Judd Ryder must determine if he or the imposter was the intended victim. By the author of The Book of Spies.
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
53) Summerland
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"How do you catch a spy who's already dead?"
Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. Yet Britain isn't the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build...
Author
Series
Gallagher girls volume 3
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Cammie Morgan arrives at her friend Macey's five-star hotel for the Democratic National Convention, where Macey's father is about to receive the vice presidential nomination, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. But if you're a Gallagher Girl, 'exciting' and 'deadly' are never far apart.
56) The spy: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A novel of Mata Hari's final days, as written by the woman herself while accused of espionage" --
57) Hostile intent
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the espionage community, Vienna is known as the City of Spies, and Matt Drake is about to learn why in the latest electrifying thriller from the New York Times Bestselling author of Tom Clancy Target Acquired and The Outside Man. When a mysterious walk-in to the US embassy in Vienna claims to have critical information about a Russian intelligence operation, he raises eyebrows. But when he asks for Matt Drake by name and calls himself the Irishman,...
58) Dark state
Author
Series
Empire Games volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verse Dark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire Games, the start to Stross' new story-line, and perfect entry point for new readers, in The Merchant Princes series . In the near-future,...
Author
Series
Orphan monster spy series volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1939. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah, finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see her, along with every other Jew, dead. Then she meets a mysterious man who needs Sarah to pull off a spy mission he can't attempt on his own: infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of Nazi top brass, befriend the girl whose father is a high-ranking scientist, and find the blueprints to a bomb...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne/Treadstone novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The final days of the American presence in Afghanistan bring Adam Hayes a summons he can't ignore in the latest electrifying thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. Adam Hayes has stepped away from the field for the last time. He's promised his wife that he won't put his life on the line any more, and there's nothing that will make him break a promise to his wife. Well...almost nothing. With America withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Taliban...
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