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Waste of Space by Stuart Gibbs, Gibson Frazier
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Tensions are running high when multibillionaire Lars Sjoburg is poisoned and demands to go home and everyone is looking to Dash Gibson to solve the case, in this third and final book in the New York Times bestselling Moon Base Alpha series.Moon Base Alpha was supposed to be an exciting place to live, but Dash didn't expect for it to be this exciting...

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Deadlock by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader...

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Zero Hour by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Overlord is reborn, and has developed the chilling ability to move from body to body, erasing the host's personality and ultimately killing them, forcing him to hop from victim to victim. He must find Otto, the only host designed to contain him, and for that he needs the location of H.I.V.E...

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Rogue by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The leaders of the world's villainous forces are being picked off one by one in a series of mysterious attacks and Dr Nero is forced to take temporary control of G.L.O.V.E. when Diabolus Darkdoom is seriously injured. He then discovers that Otto, who has now been missing for several months since Dreadnought, is leading the attacks...

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Dreadnought. Mark Walden by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
In this action-packed H.I.V.E. adventure, the world's most powerful villains have a problem: One of their own has gone rogue.It's up to Otto to save the world from a renegade faction of the world's most powerful villains, known as the Disciples. And when they kidnap two of Otto's friends, things get personal. Otto and a few of his fellow students from H.I.V.E...

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Masterminds by Gordon Korman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 32 ratings
The first book in the action-packed trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman is perfect for fans of Stranger Things and James Patterson. Eli Frieden has never left Serenity, New Mexico...why would he ever want to? Then one day, he bikes to the edge of the city limits and something so crazy and unexpected happens, it changes everything...

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The Villain Virus by Michael Buckley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The NERDS series combines the excitement of international espionage with the awkwardness of elementary school as it follows the adventures of a group of unpopular fifth graders who run a spy network from inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, they transform their nerdy qualities into incredible abilities, and the results are awesome, inspiring—and hilarious...

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Escape Velocity by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
· 29 ratings
Now in paperback, a riveting installment in an action-packed series.Students and staff at H.I.V.E.—the Higher Institute of Villainous Education—are horrified to discover that Dr. Nero has been captured by the forces of H.O.P.E.—the Hostile Operative Prosecution Executive—the world’s newest and most ruthlessly efficient security force...

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The Windy City by Roland Smith, Michael P. Spradlin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
After Q and Angela help foil a Ghost Cell plot in San Antonio, they head to Chicago, the next stop on the Match tour. Since they've been busy fighting international terrorism, they're behind on their school assignments. Their parents tell them if they don't get caught up, it's off to boarding school...

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The Cheerleaders of Doom by Michael Buckley
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The NERDS series combines the excitement of international espionage with the awkwardness of elementary school as it follows the adventures of a group of unpopular fifth graders who run a spy network from inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, they transform their nerdy qualities into incredible abilities, and the results are awesome, inspiringâ��and hilarious...

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The Overlord Protocol by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 32 ratings
HOW FAR WILL OTTO GO TO PROTECT HIS FRIENDS? Otto Malpense and his friends thought their first year at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education was the most adventurous and exciting that they would ever encounter. They were dead wrong...

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Attack of the BULLIES by Michael Buckley
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
The grand finale to the New York Times bestselling series, Attack of the BULLIES stars Ruby Peet, aka Agent Pufferfish, the team captain with super nanobyte-enhanced allergies. Pufferfish leads the team in their latest case: the kidnapping of the president’s daughter. But the NERDS discover she hasn’t been kidnapped—she’s been recruited. Their former librarian, Ms...

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Blackout by Peter Jay Black
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
The world's most lethal computer virus has been unleashed into cyberspace, and now the Urban Outlaws-five tough kids dedicated to justice-must destroy it. Leader Jack knows that they have to shut it down before it throws the world into chaos. But how can he find a virus that might be anywhere, and everywhere?Then the team meets Hector, an insanely talented hacker who even impresses Jack...

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Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle: A Mystery with Spy Cameras, Code Wheels, and Other Gadgets You Can Build Yourself by Bob Pflugfelder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
In this third installment of the series, 11-year-old whiz-kids Nick and Tesla discover that someone in the quiet town of Half Moon Bay has placed their beloved Uncle Newt under electronic surveillance—but who is spying on him, and why? To expose the secret agent, Nick and Tesla build all kinds of outrageous contraptions...

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Phantom Orbit: A Thriller by David Ignatius
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
A subtle and masterful novel from a prescient voice on the cutting edge of spy literature.David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as far-reaching as outer space...

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The Lost Relic by Joshua James
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Indiana Jones meets The X-Files in this thrilling, globe-spanning adventure about the greatest treasure hunt of all time—where ancient secrets collide with cutting-edge technology. "EVERY RELIC CAN CHANGE HISTORY... OR DESTROY IT...

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M Is for Mama's Boy by Michael Buckley, Johnny Heller
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The excitement of international espionage combined with the awkwardness of elementary makes for non-stop laughs in NERDS, the hilarious series from New York Times bestselling author Michael Buckley! The last time we met the NERDS, a team of superspies operating out of their school basement, they were using their high-tech abilities to stop an evil genius from destroying the world...

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Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
A gripping thriller from the Richard and Judy award-winning author of Girl, Missing, Sophie McKenzie. When Theo discovers the father he thought died when he was a baby is still alive, he's determined to find him. The clues lead him to the lonely Rachel, who has problems of her own, including parents who compare her unfavourably to her long-dead sister...

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Improbable by Adam Fawer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
From a brilliant new talent comes a riveting novel of chance, fate, and numbers, and one man's strange journey past the boundaries of the possible.David Caine inhabits a world of obsession, rich rewards, and rapid, destructive downfalls...

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The Alamo by Roland Smith, Michael P. Spradlin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Fresh off a "too close" encounter with the terrorist group, the Ghost Cell, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Q and Angela head to San Antonio, Texas. As their parents' band, Match, prepares for a concert at the Alamo, the two discover that the Ghost Cell has its tentacles everywhere, including the Lone Star State. With each passing hour, Q and Angela uncover more clues and discover more leads...

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Double Cross by Beth McMullen, Kelsey Navarro
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy meets Stu Gibbs’s Spy School series in the third book in the Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls series.Abby and her classmates have all been invited to Briar Academy to participate in The Challenge, a prep school competition where teams compete for prizes and the glory of being the best of the best...

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The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur by Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
In The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur, Jack zooms to the city that never sleeps to try to solve the mystery of the missing Allosaurus toe. Starting at the Natural History Museum, Jack's detection takes him to a competitive grade-schooler determined to win the science fair with his experiment crossing his own dog with the DNA from the bone of a dangerous, carnivorous dinosaur...

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Nightshade Revenge by Anthony Horowitz
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!From internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes the fourteenth thrilling installment of the Alex Rider series! Follow the world's greatest teen spy as he sets off to California to battle Nightshade once again--this time, for good...

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The Rescue by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The third title in a thrilling new series about four teenagers with psychic abilities, from Red House Book Award-winning author, Sophie McKenzie...

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Kitty Hawk by Roland Smith
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The president's daughter has been kidnapped by the elusive and lethal Ghost Cell. Quest (Q) and Angela are in hot pursuit with vicious winds and blinding rain thwarting them at every turn. It's a desperate high stakes chase...

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H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 36 ratings
HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATIONOtto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country. He is the perfect candidate to become the world's next supervillain.That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E., handpicked to become a member of the incoming class...

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Judgment at Proteus by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 13 ratings
The Quadrail train connects our galaxy, and takes secret warriors Frank Compton, from Earth, and lovely Bayta, to the horse-like alien Fillies' Proteus Station. The Mohdri, a coral group intelligence, controls minds after a scratch...

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Missing by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Nobody knows where I am. Nobody knows how to find me. Nobody knows my real identity.Including me...

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Zero Kill by M.K. Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
A ex-secret agent must come out of retirement to save her family in the new action-packed thriller from M.K. Hill.Meet Elsa Zero: Bad neighbour. Single mother. Ex-deep cover agent.And right now, the most dangerous person on Earth.When Elsa's dull but dedicated boyfriend proposes in a packed restaurant, she doesn't think her evening can get any worse...

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Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray by Jess Keating, Lissy Marlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
"Let the official record show that, I, Nikki Tesla, did not intend to destroy the world."There are only so many times a kid can invent an instrument of global destruction without getting grounded. So when Nikki's death ray accidentally blows up her bedroom (if you can call a pet ferret with an itchy trigger finger an accident), she's sent to the only place that can handle her...

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Money Run by Jack Heath
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Take two child geniuses (thieves in their spare time), one obsessed assassin, and the richest man in the world to create a compelling, completely unpredictable young adult thriller. Fifteen-year-olds Ashley and Benjamin have concocted a daring master plan: to steal billionaire Hammond Buckland's most precious belonging, hidden in the depths of his conspicuous corporate building...

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Gone by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
With Gaia's graduation from high school, Pascal's best-selling series comes to an end...only to be reborn again. Can you feel the fear?Gaia learned what it's like to feel fear -- and it wasn't pretty. Now, just in time for her last few weeks of high school, she's back to her normal, fearless self.Unfortunately, everything else is far from normal...

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The Ghost Machine by E.L. Young
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Get swept into the second, even more explosive STORM Will, Andrew, and Gaia are a trio of teen geniuses, and they're taking Venice by STORM. All over Italy, mysterious burglaries are making headlines-news footage shows a strange, spectral form at the crime scenes. The thefts are dubbed the work of Il Fantasma: the Ghost...

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A Jewel in the Crown by David Lewis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
James Bond meets Maisie Dobbs in this riveting new historical caper series featuring a gifted young socialist-turned-counterespionage spy on a World War II mission orchestrated by Winston Churchill himself…1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain...

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The Hostage by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The second gripping book in the series about four teenagers with psychic abilities, from Red House award-winning author Sophie McKenzie...

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Trex by Christyne Morrell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
This middle-grade mystery follows the adventures of a boy with an experimental brain implant, and a reclusive girl training to be a spy, as they′re pitted against school bullies, their own parents, and an evil, brain-hacking corporation. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things.Trex’s experimental brain implant saved his life—but it also made his life a lot harder. Now he shocks everything he touches...

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Payback by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Prey on the old and you’re a coward. Prey on the young and you’re pathetic. Prey on the weak and you’re even weaker.Prey on my friends…and you’re history...

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Lawless by Jeffrey Salane
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
The Lawless School provides the right education for kids on the wrong side of the law.M Freeman has been homeschooled her entire life. So M has no idea just how unusual her education has been - not until she leaves home to attend the prestigious (and mysterious) Lawless School.Suddenly, it's very clear to M that her tutors have been preparing her all along for a life of crime...

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Silver Eyes by Nicole Luiken
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Angel had no memory of the secret message, but the writing was hers. It read, "Violet eyes lie." SILVER EYESIn a world where humans work on Mars and loyalty is controlled by a brain chip, eighteen-year-old Angel Eastland can't retrieve her memory. Violet-eyed from the effects of a genetic experiment, she is hired as an investigator by the SilverDollar Mining Company...

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Edie Investigates by Nick Harkaway
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
From the author of "The Gone-Away World" and the forthcoming "Angelmaker"--an exhilarating espionage murder-mystery eShort. There has been a strange death in the quiet village of Shrewton: old Donny Caspian has lost his head. In the Copper Kettle tea rooms, Tom Rice, a junior nobody from the Treasury, puzzles over the details of the case...

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The Thief (Medusa Project #2.5) / Walking the Walls by Sophie McKenzie, Chris Higgins
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The events in this special story take place between The Hostage and The Rescue, but The Thief can be read as a stand-alone story.The Thief stars the four Medusa teens, Nico, Ketty, Ed and Dylan. Following the explosion that ended The Hostage, the teens are sent to a boot camp in Spain - to learn some discipline, but also for their own protection...

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Blood by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
· 17 ratings
Gaia Moore is genetically incapable of feeling fear. Following the death of a friend, for which she holds herself responsible, Gaia is in the grip of depression. She spends her days looking for fear, and it's becoming a death wish...

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The Persona Protocol by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
The latest thriller from bestselling author, Andy McDermott. For fans of Tom Clancy and Matthew Reilly.Adam Gray is the ultimate spy.As the lead agent of the US government's top-secret Persona project, he is its most valuable weapon in the War on Terror...

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Fugitive by Christine Harris
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
If you make the wrong choice, you die.Jesse is on assignment again, to track down and bring into C2 headquarters a man called Ari...

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Trust by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Gaia is a girl born withour fear and her world is becoming a painful mess. The beautiful, perfect Sam has fallen for Ella. Ella's hate for Gaia is growing and she's out to get rid her. Gaia's friend Ed is no help, he's lost his heart to her arch-enemy, Heather...

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Heat by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Now Gaia has told her secret to a true friend she begins to soften a little. There is a even a hint of happiness as she, Mary and Ed become inseparable. But heartache and danger are just around the corner...

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Starbounders by Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Zachary Night has been waiting his whole life for this moment. Like his family before him, he's finally headed to Indigo 8, a top secret training center where future Starbounders learn the skills to protect the galaxy. But being a Starbounder is no walk on the moon...

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Hammer of Angels by G.T. Almasi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
In G. T. Almasi’s thrilling alternate reality, the United States, the USSR, and the Republic of China share a fragile balance of power with Greater Germany, which emerged from World War II in control of Europe and half of the Middle East...

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Medusa Project The Set-Up by Sophie McKenzie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Fourteen years ago, scientist William Fox implanted four babies with the Medusa gene - a gene for psychic abilities. But Fox died and the babies were hidden away for years.Now they're teenagers - and unaware that their psychic powers are about to kick in.Cocky, charismatic Nico thinks his emerging telekinetic abilities will bring him money, power and the girl of his dreams...

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Rebel by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
· 21 ratings
What's the point of being fearless..

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