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 Books in the Alex Rider series:

Stormbreaker
Point Blank
Skeleton Key
Eagle Strike
Scorpia
Ark Angel

Also:
Alex Rider: The Gadgets
Stormbreaker The Graphic Novel

 

Other Series You Might Enjoy:

Spy High series by A.J. Butcher

            Spy High Mission One
                Spy High Mission Two: Chaos Rising
                Spy High Mission Three: The Serpent Scenario
                Spy High Mission Four: The Paranoia Plot
                Spy High Mission Five: Blood Relations

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 begin sent out into the field to sink or swim.

Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer

            Artemis Fowl
                The Arctic Incident
                The Eternity Code
                The Opal Deception
                The Lost Colony
                The Artemis Fowl Files

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a most ingenious criminal mastermind, and heir to the Fowl family empire, a centuries-old clan of underworld figures and famous con artists. When Artemis kidnaps Holly Short, one of the Fairy People, to help him on his quest for gold, he takes on a Fairy world determined to rescue Holly.

Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale

            The Merchant of Death
                The Lost City of Faar
                The Never War
                The Reality Bug
                Black Water
                The Rivers of Zadaa
                The Quillan Game
               
The Pilgrims of Rayne
                The Guide to the Territories of Halla 

Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. But there is something very special about Bobby-- he is going to save the world. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought. Before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.

Tomorrow series by John Marsden

Tomorrow, When the War Began
                The Dead of the Night
                The Third Day, The Frost
                Darkness, Be My Friend
                Burning for Revenge
                The Night is for Hunting
                The Other Side of Dawn 

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.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan

The Lightning Thief
                The Sea of Monsters

                The Titan's Curse 

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

Traces series by Malcolm Rose

            Lost Bullet
                Roll Call
                Framed!
                Double Check
                Final Lap

Recently qualified as a forensic investigator, Luke Harding is assigned to the slums of London, where he and Malc investigate a doctor's murder. They find a bullet wound to her head, but rain has washed away the bullet and all other clues. As more innocent doctors die, Luke's sleuthing leads him to a mysterious cult called The Visionaries. With no time to lose, Luke must infiltrate the sect and find the culprit before the bizarre shooting spree becomes an all-out massacre.

Spy Goddess series by Michael P. Spradlin

            Live and Let Shop
                To Hawaii, With Love
 

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.

Fiction:

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut-young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world.

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
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.
Sequel: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.

Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.

Snatched by Pete Hautman and Mary Logue
Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.

Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Sequels: The Shadow in the North
                           The Tiger in the Well

The Gadget- Paul Zindel
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.

 

Non-Fiction:

Fortune, Emil- Stormbreaker: Behind the Scenes
Explore the thrilling world of espionage in this gripping behind-the-scenes book of the movie Stormbreaker and discover the who, the why and the how behind the big-screen blockbuster.

McCormick, Donald- The Master Book of Spies; the world of espionage, master spies, tortures, interrogations, spy equipment, escapes, codes & how you can become a spy

Wolfgang, Lotz- A Handbook for Spies