Page 1 of 4 If you liked the Alex Rider series (by Anthony Horowitz), try one of the following:
Butcher, A. J.. Spy High : Mission One. 2003. (YA Fiction Butch.A)
Six teenagers, attending a special high school that trains them to be secret agents, struggle to complete their training exercises as a team before being sent out into the field to sink or swim. (Book One of Spy High series)
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. 1985. (YA Science Fiction Card.O)
An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction (Book One of a series).
Carter, Ally. I'd Tell You I Love You but Then I'd Have to Kill You. 2006. (YA Fiction Carte.A & YA CD Fiction Carte.A & eAudiobook)
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
Cole, Stephen. Thieves Like Us. 2006. (YA Fiction Cole.S)
A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed (Book One of a series).
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. 2003. (YA Fiction Colfe.E & JUV CD Fiction Colfe.E)
When a 12-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. (Book One of the Artemis Fowl series)
Deuker, Carl. Runner. 2005. (YA Fiction Deuke.C)
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
Feinstein, John. Last Shot : A Final Four Mystery. 2005. (YA Mystery Feins.J)
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Steve and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
Ferguson, Alane. The Christopher Killer : A Forensic Mystery. 2006. (YA Mystery Fergu.A)
On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, 17-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger (Book One of a series).
Gilman, David. The Devil's Breath. 2008. (YA Fiction Gilma.D & YA CD Fiction Gilma.D)
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.
Hautman, Pete & Mary Loque. Snatched. 2006. (YA Mystery Hautm.P)
Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate (Book One of a series).
Heath, Jack. The Lab. 2008. (YA Fiction Heath.J)
This exciting new adventure series introduces 16-year-old superhuman Six of Hearts, an extremely capable agent in The Deck, a team of special agents fighting to uphold justice in a terribly corrupt world.
Hiaasen, Carl. Flush. 2005. (YA Fiction Hiaas.C)
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of the floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
Higgins, Jack. Sure Fire. 2007. (YA Fiction Higgi.J)
Resentful of having to go live with their estranged father after the death of their mother, 15-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, soon find they have more complicated problems when their father is kidnapped and their attempts to rescue him involve them in a dangerous international plot to control the world's oil.
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