Watch Out For Spies!

If you like the Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz then you might like....

• The Squad : Perfect Cover (Series) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA BAR)

High school sophomore Toby Klein enjoys computer hacking and wearing combat boots, so she thinks it's a joke when she's invited to join the cheer leading squad. Soon she discovers that cheering is just a cover for an elite group of government operatives known as the squad.

• The Shadow Project by Herbie Brennan (YA BRE)

A young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that trains teenagers in remote viewing and astral projection techniques in order to engage in spying.

• Spy High (Series) by A.J. Butcher (YA BUT)

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.

• I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You (Series) by Ally Carter (YA CAR)

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.

• Thieves Like Us (Series) by Stephen Cole (YA COL)

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.

• The Artemis Fowl (Series) by Eoin Colfer (YA COL)

In the first Artemis Fowl book, a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his familys fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold. But the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

• Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney (YA COO)

New York City is Mitty’s playground, and he loves it, but good times take a deadly turn. When Mitty starts a research paper on bioterrorism, he stumbles across smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and has started spreading the deadly virus among the city.

• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (YA DOC)

After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

• Gone (Series) by Michael Grant (YA GRA)

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

• SilverFin : A James Bond Adventure (Series) by Charlie Higson (YA HIG)

Prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces the young James when he is just starting boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure.

· Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks (YA JIN)

Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

• Spy X (Series) by Peter Lerangis (J LER)

Andrew and Evie aren't initially sure what to make of the package that arrives at their door soon after they move to a new town. It's filled with random things--a key, something that looks like a kaleidoscope, a seed packet, and a cryptic note. But over time, each item takes on unique importance. The twins decide to fill the dull weeks before the start of school by spying on their neighbors. Their first target is their next-door-neighbor. At first she seems like a run-of-the-mill older lady, but she turns out to be a retired code specialist. She teaches them to create and break codes, skills that become important as twins' search for their mother intensifies.

• Conspiracy 365 (Series) by Gabrielle Lord (YA LOR)

On New Year's Eve, 15-year-old Callum Ormond is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning, "They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days". Hurled into a life on the run, with a price on his head, the fugitive is isolated and alone. Hunted by the law and ruthless criminals, Cal must somehow uncover the truth about his father's mysterious death and a history-changing secret.

• Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden (YA MAR)

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.

• Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (Series) by James Patterson (YA PAT)

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 must use their brains and their combat skills to get her back.

• Streams of Babel by Carol Plum (YA PLU)

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

• Higher-Institute-of-Villainous-Education by Mark Walden (YA WAL)

Four young evil geniuses plot to escape the prison known as H.I.V.E.

• The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (Series) by Rick Yancey (YA YAN)

Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.

Also by Anthony Horowitz

Gatekeepers Series:

Raven's Gate

Evil Star

Night Rise

Necropolis

Diamond Brothers Series:

The Falcon's Malteser

Public Enemy Number Two

South by South East

The French Confection

The Blurred Man

I Know What You Did Last Wednesday

Three of Diamonds

The Greek Who Stole Christmas

Horowitz Horror

More Horowitz Horror

Tie Ins To The Books:

Alex Rider: The Gadgets

Stormbreaker: the Graphic Novel