Bad Girls Academy: A Teenage Spy Academy Series

Bad Girls Academy: A Teenage Spy Academy Series
Author: Bailey Cruz
Publisher: Secret Agent Girl
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2019-02-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781797715339

A Broken Girl. A Deadly Secret. And A Mission That Will Change Her Forever.Henley Greene used to have the sort of life you see in the movies. A loving father, a stable homelife, and a future she was looking forward to. One horrible, tragedy-filled night changed all of that forever. Now, after having bounced around foster care for years, Henley is fending for herself on the streets. That is, until she's recruited to a very prestigious, and very unique, academy. Empire Academy breeds the best spies the world has ever known, and they see something in Henley that is worth nurturing. But things won't be easy. After years on the streets, Henley doesn't like rules, and Empire is nothing if not structured. They'll bend her until she breaks and push her past the point of no return all in the hopes of turning her into a world class spy.But, when her first mission involves a man Henley believes might have something to do with the death of her father, she'll put everything aside to get to the bottom of things.That quest will send the girl down a rabbit hole of danger, espionage, betrayals and government secrets that threatens to swallow her whole. Friends will become enemies, enemies will become lovers, and by the end, the truth about her father will change both Henley and her place in the world forever.

Spy Ski School

Spy Ski School
Author: Stuart Gibbs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481445634

Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this bestselling follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated Spy School, Spy Camp, and Evil Spy School. Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen--he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive. His enemies have kidnapped him, shot at him, locked him in a room with a ticking time bomb, and even tried to blow him up with missiles. And he's survived every time. After all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real. The Mission: Become friends with Jessica Shang, the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss, and find out all of her father's secrets. Jessica wants to go to ski school in the Rocky Mountains, so a select few spy school students are going skiing too--under cover, of course. Ben might not be able to handle a weapon (or a pair of skis), but he can make friends easy peasy. That is, until his best friend from home drops in on the trip and jeopardizes the entire mission...

Beyond the Black Door

Beyond the Black Door
Author: A.M. Strickland
Publisher: Imprint
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250198755

Beyond the Black Door is a young adult dark fantasy about unlocking the mysteries around and within us—no matter the cost... Everyone has a soul. Some are beautiful gardens, others are frightening dungeons. Soulwalkers—like Kamai and her mother—can journey into other people's souls while they sleep. But no matter where Kamai visits, she sees the black door. It follows her into every soul, and her mother has told her to never, ever open it. When Kamai touches the door, it is warm and beating, like it has a pulse. When she puts her ear to it, she hears her own name whispered from the other side. And when tragedy strikes, Kamai does the unthinkable: she opens the door. A.M. Strickland's imaginative dark fantasy features court intrigue and romance, a main character coming to terms with her asexuality, and twists and turns as a seductive mystery unfolds that endangers not just Kamai's own soul, but the entire kingdom ... An Imprint Book “I couldn’t put down this deliciously dark dream of a fantasy.” —New York Times bestselling author Lisa Maxwell “A dark delight, gorgeously written and as twisty and enigmatic as a labyrinth at twilight. I wanted to stay lost in its pages forever, wandering ever deeper into the maze of Strickland’s beguiling, intricately imagined world.” —Margaret Rogerson, New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens

City Spies

City Spies
Author: James Ponti
Publisher: Aladdin
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534414924

A New York Times bestseller! A GMA3 Summer Reading Squad Selection! “Ingeniously plotted, and a grin-inducing delight.” —People “Will keep young readers glued to the page…So when do I get the sequel?” —Beth McMullen, author of Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls In this thrilling new series that Stuart Gibbs called “a must-read,” Edgar Award winner James Ponti brings together five kids from all over the world and transforms them into real-life spies—perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls. Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, Sara finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers for the same stretch of time. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets Sara released from jail but also offers her a chance to make a home for herself within a secret MI6 agency. Operating out of a base in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from various parts of the world. When they’re not attending the local boarding school, they’re honing their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can’t. Before she knows what she’s doing, Sara is heading to Paris for an international youth summit, hacking into a rival school’s computer to prevent them from winning a million euros, dangling thirty feet off the side of a building, and trying to stop a villain…all while navigating the complex dynamics of her new team. No one said saving the world was easy…

Geek Love

Geek Love
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307794482

National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.

Every Hidden Thing

Every Hidden Thing
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 3
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481464183

The hunt for a dinosaur skeleton buried in the Badlands, bitter rivalries, and a forbidden romance come together in this “fantastic” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that’s Romeo and Juliet meets Indiana Jones. Somewhere in the Badlands, embedded deep in centuries-buried rock and sand, lies the skeleton of a massive dinosaur, larger than anything the late nineteenth century world has ever seen. Some legends call it the Black Beauty, with its bones as black as ebony, but to seventeen-year-old Samuel Bolt it’s the “rex,” the king dinosaur that could put him and his struggling, temperamental archaeologist father in the history books (and conveniently make his father forget he’s been kicked out of school), if they can just quarry it out. But Samuel and his father aren’t the only ones after the rex. For Rachel Cartland this find could be her ticket to a different life, one where her loves of science and adventure aren’t just relegated to books and sitting rooms. Because if she can’t prove herself on this expedition with her professor father, the only adventures she may have to look forward to are marriage or spinsterhood. As their paths cross and the rivalry between their fathers becomes more intense, Samuel and Rachel are pushed closer together. And with both eyeing the same prize, their budding romance seems destined to fail. But as danger looms on the other side of the hills, causing everyone’s secrets to come to light, Samuel and Rachel are forced to make a decision. Can they join forces to find their quarry—and with it a new life together—or will old enmities and prejudices keep them from both the rex and each other?

Rival Magic

Rival Magic
Author: Deva Fagan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534439064

Apprentice wizards Antonia and Moppe must set aside their rivalry and unite their opposing skill sets to save Master Betrys, their island nation, and themselves.

Greetings from Witness Protection!

Greetings from Witness Protection!
Author: Jake Burt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250107113

A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.

The Frankenstein Factory

The Frankenstein Factory
Author: A. J. Butcher
Publisher: Spy High 1
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9781904233138

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.

Secrets from the Sleeping Bag: A Blogtastic! Novel

Secrets from the Sleeping Bag: A Blogtastic! Novel
Author: Rose Cooper
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-03-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307975223

School is out for the summer in this final book in the BLOGTASTIC! series! And Sofia Becker, Middlebrooke Middle School blogger extraordinaire, is back to let you know everything that goes down at camp. Sofia is spending the summer at Camp Krakatow! S'mores, crafts, bug juice, water sports, boys(!) . . . Sofia doesn't want to forget one second of sleepaway camp!