Butcher, A.J.
Spy High

As students at a special high school that trains them to be secret agents, six teenagers struggle to complete the training exercises as a team before being sent out into the field to sink or swim.

Clancy, Tom
Net Force

From the creators of Op-Center comes a different kind of law enforcement—an elite security agency to enforce laws that govern computer control in the year 2010. The operatives must hunt a hacker who has unleashed a virus that throws the federal financial systems into chaos.

Colfer, Eoin
Artemis Fowl

When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Higson, Charles
Silverfin (Young Bond Series)

Young James Bond, while attending boarding school at Eton in the 1930s, must battle against an insane arms dealer who, by using killer eels, is attempting to create a race of indestructible soldiers on the eve of World War II.

Marsden, John
Tomorrow When the War Began

Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.

MacHale, D.J.
Merchant of Death (Pendragon Series)

There is something very special about Bobby Pendragon.  He is going to save the world. And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn’t quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron.  If Bobby wants to see his family again, he’s going to have to accept his role as savior, and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning….

McNamee, Graham
Acceleration

Stuck working in the lost and found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

McNab, Andy
Traitor (Watt’s Family Adventures series)

A boy who believes his grandfather to be a traitor, a spy who turned against England and then disappeared, tracks down his grandfather and finds out the truth.

Mikaelson, Ben
Red Midnight

After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.

Muchamore, Robert
Recruit (Cherub series)

When James is recently orphaned, he is recruited by a secret agency for his math skills and must undergo one hundred days of grueling training.

Myers, Walter Dean
Fallen Angels

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

Patterson, James
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride Series)

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the “birdkids,“ who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

Riordan, Rick
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series)

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

Shan, Darren
Cirque du Freak (series)

Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.

Simmons, Michael
Finding Lubchenko

When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.

Updale, Eleanor
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? (Montmorency series)

In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician’s case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.