Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Suspense, Spies, and High Speed Chases
Steel Trapp
Pearson, Ridley.
On a two-day train trip to enter his invention in the National Science Competition in Washington, D....
Stormbreaker
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to c...
Tunnels
Gordon, Roderick.
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father,...
Alibi Junior High
Logsted, Greg.
After thirteen-year-old Cody and his father, an undercover agent, are nearly killed, Cody moves in w...
The Boundless
Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada,...
Codename : Zero
Rylander, Chris.
"When a desperate man in a nondescript black suit asks thirteen-year-old Carson Fender to deliv...
The Infinity Code
Young, E. L.
In London, the teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world&...
The League of Unexceptional Children
Daneshvari, Gitty.
Evanston, Virginia, twelve-year-olds Jonathan Murray and Shelley Brown are completely average and fo...
The Maze of Bones
Riordan, Rick.
Rick Riordan's newest mystery centers around the Cahills - the most powerful family the world h...
Mission Unstoppable
Gutman, Dan.
On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off ...
Moving Target
Gonzalez, Christina Diaz, 1969- author.
Twelve-year-old Cassie Arroyo is a student in Rome, but her life changes when a secret organization,...
National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society
Buckley, Michael, 1969-
While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits combine their talen...
Nick of Time
Bell, Ted.
With the help of Lord Hawke, whose children have been taken by the evil pirate Captain Billy Blood, ...
Playing with Fire
Hale, Bruce.
Reluctant orphan-turned-spy Max Segredo discovers intrigue at the Merry Sunshine Orphanage and must ...
Rise of the Ninja
Higgins, Simon,
It's the dawn of an age of peace in medieval Japan. But a power-hungry warlord is plotting to p...
Science Fair
Barry, Dave.
The president of Kprshtskan is plotting to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School in Ma...
The Shadow Project
Brennan, Herbie.
A young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that ...
SilverFin
Higson, Charles,
This prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces us to the young James when he's j...
Spy School
Gibbs, Stuart, 1969-
Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive...