Anthony Horowitz
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Series
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's...
3) Skeleton Key
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
4) Snakehead
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
5) Scorpia
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Series
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.
6) Point blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 2
Publisher
Speak/Penguin
Pub. Date
2004, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British M16, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
7) Ark angel
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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
9) Eagle Strike
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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2004, 2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
10) Evil star
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"This thriller has all the hallmarks of an original Ian Fleming adventure and features welcome familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny. Horowitz delivers a smooth and seductive narrative of fast cars and beautiful women, ruthless villains and breathtaking plot that will leave readers hanging until the very end."--Publisher website.
12) Nightshade
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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
13) Never say die
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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.
Alex relocates to San Francisco as he slowly recovers from the tragic death of his best friend and caregiver, Jack Starbright, at the hands of terrorists working for SCORPIA. Out of the blue he receives a cryptic email-- just three words long, but enough to make Alex believe that Jack may be...
14) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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.
15) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventure volume 10
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
It is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of Sherlockian detection that could tear apart the very fabric of society. The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon.