007, PIRATES, & MORE...ADVENTURE FICTION

Spies | Survival | New World Order

SPIES

• Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz--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. (Book One of the Alex Rider Adventures)
• Spy High by A.J. Butcher--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 being sent out into the field to sink or swim. (Book One of the Spy High Series)
• Virtual Vandals by Steve R. Pieczenik--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. (Book One of Tom Clancy’s Net Force Series)
• Fearless by Francine Pascal--Gaia has no fear, she was born without the fear gene. Trained in all types of martial arts, she uses her anger towards her parents in honorable ways. (Book One of the Fearless Series)
• The Book of the Sword by Carrie Asai--Despite being the only survivor of a tragic plane crash at a mere six months of age, this young girl was lovingly raised by a Tokyo couple for the next nineteen years, but all that she has known her entire life is about to change. (Book One of the Samurai Girl Series)

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SURVIVAL

• Downriver by Will Hobbs--Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor --When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a teenage white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
• Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen--Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. (Book One in the Brian Series; and alternate to Hatchet)
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Alden Carter--Although neither fifteen-year-old Mark Severson nor his diabetic cousin Randy are looking forward to the canoe trip that is a family rite of passage, they begin to enjoy themselves as they make their way through Minnesota's lake country, until the trip becomes a fight for survival.
• Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden--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.

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NEW WORLD ORDER

• Abarat by Clive Barker--Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.
• Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy by L.A. Meyer--Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
• The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence--According to the law, for a ship to be considered a wreck and free for salvage, no living thing has survived. Unless John finds his father and stops the wreckers, it is only a matter of time before he joins those survivors of past wrecks who are now buried on the Moor.
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi--As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. Includes ship illustrations in an appendix.
• The Boy Who Spoke Dog by Clay Morgan--After being marooned on an island near New Zealand, Jack, an orphaned cabin boy from San Francisco, becomes allied with a group of dogs who protect the local sheep from wild dogs.
• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel--Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

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