Anthony Horowitz
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Investigations into the "accidental" deaths of two of the world's most powerful men have revealed just one link: both had a son attending Point Blanc Academy, a school for rebellious rich kids run by the sinister Dr Grief and set high in the French Alps. Armed with a new collection of gadgets, Alex must infiltrate the academy as a pupil and establish the truth about what is really happening there.
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The hazy days of Wimbledon are the unlikely first link in a terrifying chain of events. Alex Rider, reluctant teenage spy, is forced into hiding after his recce mission as a ballboy makes him a target for a murderous Chinese gang. Sent to the island Skeleton Key, Alex is thrown into further danger as from there, General Sarov - an insane Russian - has plans to destroy the world. Alone, with just a handful of gadgets, Alex must outwit Sarov as the...
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 5
Publisher
Walker Books and Subsidiaries
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Teenage spy Alex travels to Venice looking for secrets long-buried in the past. Was his father really a ruthless assassin - and if so, what does that make Alex? The truth lies with the shadowy criminal organization known as Scorpia, and soon Alex will have to make a choice: will he continue to work for MI6, who have manipulated him? Or will Alex join Scorpia - and get his revenge?
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
In 1890, a year after Sherlock Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of Sherlockian detection that could tear apart the very fabric of society. The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West.
48) The switch
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
When wealthy, spoiled, thirteen-year-old Tad Spencer wishes he were someone else, he awakens as Bob Snarby, the uncouth, impoverished son of carnival workers, and as he is drawn into a life of crime he begins to discover truths about himself and his family.
Author
Series
Alex Rider (Graphic novels) volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"After learning a terrible secret about his father, teen spy Alex Rider travels to Venice to uncover the truth about his past. But the truth lies with a criminal organization known as Scorpia. When he agrees to train as an assassin and is given a target that he knows well, Alex must make a choice: work with MI6 once more or betray everything he believes in"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
p2004, c1986,1995
Language
English
Description
After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.
Author
Series
Alex Rider (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
�2009
Language
English
Description
On a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
A collection of five retellings of classic myths and legends featuring a banshee, a gorgon, a dragon, and other mythical creatures. In the cold, dead eyes of the banshee and the hissing, spiiting fangs of the gorgon; in the fiery breath of the dragon and the razor-sharp claws of the sphinx - there is a thirst for blood and a murderous hunger.
53) Bloody Horowitz
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Collects fourteen horror tales, including the story of a teen gang leader taken for a ride by a deadly car with a mind of its own, a boy haunted by a phantom cobra, and a reality television show pitting teenagers against adults.
Author
Series
Alex Rider (Graphic novels) volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
�2007
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider, teenage superspy, infiltrates the mysterious Point Blanc Academy, armed with only a false ID and a set of disguised gadgets. Can he alert the world to what he finds out before it's too late?
55) Granny
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In London, England, twelve-year-old Joe discovers that his grandmother is not just physically repulsive and horribly mean, she is also involved in an evil plot against him, but the adults around them fail to see behind her mask.
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nick and his brother, an ineffectual private detective, try to prevent the threatened murder of an international pop star in London at Christmas time.
58) Groosham Grange
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Language
English
Description
After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right.
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
�2005
Language
English
Description
A collection of three Diamond Brothers mysteries in which Tim and Nick bungle their way through a search for a missing philanthropist, find themselves in a Parisian prison, and are stranded on a Scottish island with a murderer.
Author
Series
Groosham Grange series volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2010, �1999
Language
English
Description
To save Groosham Grange, the strange boarding school he attends where ghosts and ghouls rule the academy and students study witchcraft, David Eliot must win the Unholy Grail, a magical cup awarded to the star pupil.