Great Books for Teens

 

Guy Books

Sports  Action  Spies  War

Barry, Dave. Science Fair.

The president of Kprshtskan is plotting to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School in Maryland in order to take over the United States government, but when Toby Harbinger, an ordinary student, makes up his mind finally to win the fair, the terrorists' plans go awry.


Brittney, L. Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times.

Fourteen-year-old Nathan Fox is an actor in the same company as a young Will Shakespeare. But nothing can prepare him for the shadowy world he's about to enter at the request of Sir Francis Walsingham, England's spymaster general.


Heath, Jack.  The Lab.

Meet a sixteen-year-old superhuman: Agent Six of Hearts. He's the strongest, most effective agent in the Deck, a team of special agents fighting to uphold justice in a completely corrupt world.


Higson Charles.  Young Bond series.

This prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces us to the young James when he's just started boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure.

Silverfin (#1)
Blood Fever (#2)
Double or Die (#3)
Hurricane Gold (#4)
By Royal Command (#5)


Horowitz, Anthony.  Alex Rider series.

After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

Stormbreaker (#1)
Point Blank (#2)
Skeleton Key (#3)
Eagle Strike (#4)
Scorpia (#5)
Ark Angel (#6)
Snakehead (#7)


McNab, Andy. Traitor.

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

Payback (#2)
Avenger (#3)
Meltdown (#4)


Mowll, Joshua.  Operation Red Jericho.

Rebecca and Doug MacKenzie are sent to live aboard their uncle's ship in 1920s China, where they become involved in the dangerous activities of a mysterious secret society called the Honourable Guild of Specialists.

Operation Typhoon Shore (#2)
Opeartion Storm City (#3)


Muchamore, Robert. The Recruit.
(CHERUB series)

CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They hack into computers, bug entire houses, and download crucial documents. It is a highly dangerous job. For their safety, these agents DO NOT EXIST.


Plum-Ucci, Carol.  Streams of Babel.

Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.


Smith, Roland. I.Q.: Independence Hall.

Step-siblings Q and Angela are thrust into the world of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Q learns the secret about Angela's real mother - a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist group.


Wild, K. Fight Game.

Fifteen-year-old Freedom Smith has inherited the "Hercules gene," which leads him to a choice between being jailed for attempted murder or working with a covert law enforcement agency to break up a mysterious, illegal fight ring.

Fire Fight (#2)


Young, E. L. Storm.

The teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery, head to the Swiss Alps seeking the last of six scientists whose Project FIREball is of interest to MI6, the CIA, and an unknown assasin.

Ghost Machine (#2)
Black Sphere (#3)