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Spy Stories!

Your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to pick up one of these diabolically fun spy stories on your next visit to the library!

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  • Juniper Kai was born to be a spy. And while spies sometimes work alone, Juniper has always been able to count on her mom and dad to fill in as spy partners. Until now. So Juniper sets out on a new mission: to find out exactly what her parents are up…
    Book, 2019New York : Two Lions, 2019 — PIC Gehl
  • Charlie Palmer, super spy has been summoned for a top-secret mission: to find the prime minister's underpants! She gets herself geared up. Gadgets ready? Check! Sunglasses on? Check! Watch out, bad guys! Villains are no match for this AWESOME llama!
    Book, 021Wilton, CT : Tiger Tales, 021 — PIC Woolfe
  • Join Secret, Secret Agent Guy on his bedtime assignment, code name: Operation Lollipop. Will this 007-year-old complete his covert quest, or will he be outsmarted by an adversary he never saw coming?
    Book, 2021New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2021] — PIC Bigwood
  • A super-secret operative saves the world from a diabolical threat through her ability to brandish just the right book at just the right time in this delightfully silly superhero tale.
    Book, 2018Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 — PIC Sager
  • A little guy just wants to be a spy in this funny, rhythmic picture book about sneakiness and perseverance, featuring a sweet father-son bond.
    Book, 2015Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015] — PIC Young
  • When Koko Dodo's secret chocolate sauce is stolen just before an important cooking contest Didi Dodo, a dodo bird, devises a daring plan to help--whether he wants her to or not. (First volume of The Flytrap Files.)
    Book, 2019New York : Amulet Books, 2019 — EJF Angl
  • Ben Ripley is recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science-but he's entirely shocked to discover that the school is actually a front for a junior C.I.A. academy. Ben becomes an undercover agent and goes on his first assignment in this…
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022 — JGN Gibb
  • With their Very Exciting Spy Technology and their tried-and-true, toilet-based travel techniques, the InvestiGators are undercover and on the case! And on their first mission together, they have not one but two mysteries to solve! (Volume 8 of this…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : First Second, 2020 — JGN Gree
  • Agent Moose, the best (worst) secret agent in the Big Forest, and his slightly-more-intelligent sidekick Owlfred are on the case. Something fishy is going on at the South Shore. Folks just disappear and are never seen again. But when Agent Moose…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020 — JGN OHar
  • James Bond meets "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" in this groundbreaking new chapter book series. After the Crown Jewels are stolen, only one person can help the Queen of England: Mac B., her newest secret agent. With fascinating historical facts masterfully…
    Book, 2018New York : Orchard Novel/Scholastic Inc., 2018 — JF Barn
  • What is the League of Unexceptional Children? I'm glad you asked. It's a covert network that uses the nation's most average, normal, and utterly unexceptional children as spies. Why the average kids? Why not the brainiacs? Or the beauty queens? Or…
    Book, 2015New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2015 — JF Dane
  • NERDS

    National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society

    Buckley, Michael, 1969-
    Combining all the excitement of international espionage and all the awkwardness of elementary school, this is the story of a secret spy society made up of fifth-grade misfits who use their unique nerdiness to fight crime.
    Book, 2009New York : Amulet Books, 2009 — JF Buck
  • Harriet, would-be writer and avid observer of life, records everything she sees and hears. But what is she to do after her treasured notebook falls into the wrong hands? A classic!
    Book, 1964New York : Harper & Row, [1964] — JF Fitz
  • Two young adventure-loving and gadget-obsessed penguins dream of joining the FBI (Frosty Bureau of Investigation) in the launch of this hilarious illustrated chapter book series.
    Book, 2018New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2018 — JF Hay
  • Twelve-year-old Abigail's shocked to discover her elite boarding school is really a cover for a huge spy ring, and must undergo Spy Training 101 in order to save her mother--who happens to be the spy ring's top agent.
    Book, 2017New York : Aladdin, 2017 — JF McMu
  • Shadow on the Mountain

    [a Novel Inspired by the True Adventures of a Wartime Spy]

    Preus, Margi
    After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers, then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a spy, dodging…
    Book, 2012New York : Amulet Books, 2012 — JF Preu
  • Shadow Warrior

    Based on the True Story of a Fearless Ninja and Her Network of Female Spies

    Kyi, Tanya Lloyd, 1973-
    It's 1558, and this novel weaves the stories of three people: Mochizuki Chiyome, a young woman determined to become a ninja whose plans are thwarted by an arranged marriage; Takeda Shingen (The Tiger), a fierce warlord seeking a new weapon to…
    Book, 2017Toronto ; Berkeley : Annick Press, 2017 — JF Lloy
  • Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school. (The 12th book in this super-popular series 'Spy School Goes Wild' is out now!)
    Book, 2012New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012 — JF Gibb
  • Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on…
    Book, 2019New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019 — JM Gibb
  • Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group…
    Book, 2020New York : Aladdin, 2020 — JM Pont