Spies Like Us: spy fiction for feens
compiled 8-1-06

For Freedom : the story of a French spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
YA FIC BRAD
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.

Virtual Vandals by Tom Clancy
YA FIC CLAN
At a holographic baseball game, Matt Hunter and several other Net Force Explorers are thrilled to see Babe Ruth swing for the fences. But when Ruth does his famous routine of pointing to the stands, four people dressed in 30's style outfits stand up and open fire with Tommy guns! Even virtual bullets can kill you. Matt and his friends know that these "virtual vandals" must be stopped. First in the Net Force Explorers series.

Midnight Rider by Joan Hiatt Harlow
YA FIC HARL
In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise.

SilverFin : a James Bond adventure by Charlie Higson
YA FIC HIGS
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. First in the Young Bond series.

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
YA FIC HORO
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. First in the Alex Rider series.

Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society by Adeline Yen Mah
YA FIC MAH
During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is thrown out of her father's and stepmother's home, joins a martial arts group, and tries to help her aunt and the Americans in their struggle against the Japanese invaders.

Traitor by Andy McNab and Robert Rigby
YA FIC MCNA
A boy who believes his grandfather to be a traitor, a spy who turned against England and then disappeared, tracks down his grandfather and finds out the truth.

Peter Raven, Under Fire by Michael Molloy
YA FIC MOLL
Peter Raven is a midshipman in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and must help Commodore Beaumont, a spy, foil a French plot to take over the Americas.

The Recruit by Robert Muchamore
YA FIC MUCH
James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 which consists of teenage spies. He successfully completes his training and goes on his first mission. First in the CHERUB, a division of MI5 series.

Kill Game by Francine Pascal
YA FIC PASC
Gaia Moore, from Pascal's Fearless series, is out of college and training for the FBI. But the FBI has strict codes and Gaia's not a team player. So when it comes to hunting a serial killer, cracking the case may mean breaking the rules.

Spy vs. Spy by Antonio Prohias
YA GRAPHIC NOVEL PR
As seen in "Mad Magazine", the spies--one in black, one in white--are forever upping each other on a diabolical dance of deceit and double-crossing.

Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
YA FIC RINA
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

The Secret of Sarah Revere by Ann Rinaldi
YA FIC RINA
Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution.

Live and Let Shop by Michael P. Spradlin
YA FIC SPRA
Beverly Hills teenager Rachel Buchanan gets in trouble with the law and winds up at mysterious Blackthorn Academy in Pennsylvania, where she uncovers secrets about the school and becomes entangled in a case of international espionage. First in the Spy Goddess series.

The Counterfeit Princess by Jane Resh Thomas
YA FIC THOM
Vowing revenge when her parents are executed in 1553 by the Duke of Northumberland, teenaged Iris becomes a messenger, spy, and stand-in for Princess Elizabeth during the volatile political times surrounding Edward VI's death.

A Winter of Spies by Gerard Whelan
YA FIC WHEL
In 1920 Dublin, eleven-year-old Sarah Conway learns that Ireland's struggle for independence, led by Michael Collins, is waged not only with guns but also with spies, lies, and secrets.

The Gadget by Paul Zindel
YA FIC ZIND
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.