Anthony Horowitz
21) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain's top secret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle's killers . . ." --
22) Point blank
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British M16, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
23) Magpie murders
Author
Series
Magpie murders volume 1
Language
English
Description
A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"--
After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with his...
24) Scorpia rising
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
25) Crocodile tears
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organizer, who realizes that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall that claimed the lives of Sherlock Holmes and criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, must track down a sinister figure who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty's successor.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's third James Bond novel, after Forever and a Day. It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder - James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den - but whose...
30) Evil star
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After defeating the Old Ones at Raven's Gate, Matt Freeman thought he could get on with his life. But far away in Peru a second gate is about to open. Only Matt has the power to stop the forces of darkness breaking through, but now they know all about him, and this time they're going to destroy him first.
31) Necropolis
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 4
Power of Five
Horowitz Anthony volume 04
The Gatekeepers volume 4
Power of Five
Horowitz Anthony volume 04
The Gatekeepers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
32) Nightrise
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.
33) Oblivion
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Matt. Pedro. Scott. Jamie. Scar. Five Gatekeepers have finally found one another. And only the five of them can fight the evil force that is on the rise, threatening the destruction of the world.
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Nick is framed for a jewel robbery, he and his brother, the bumbling detective Tim Diamond, attempt to clear his name by capturing the master criminal known as the Fence. Framed for a jewel robbery, quick-thinking thirteen-year-old Nick Diamond finds himself sharing a prison cell with Johnny Powers, juvenile delinquent and Public Enemy Number One.nbsp; Suddenly, Nick is Public Enemy Number Two!nbsp; His only chance at breaking...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound."
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll,...
37) Never say die
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Alex relocates to San Francisco as he slowly recovers from the tragic death of his best friend and caregiver, Jack Starbright, at the hands of terrorists working for Scorpia. Out of the blue he receives a cryptic email-- just three words long, but enough to make Alex believe that Jack may be alive. He boards a flight bound for Egypt and embarks on a dubious quest to track Jack down. But Scorpia is working on a new terrorist plot-- and Alex must traverse...
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 14
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nightshade kidnaps his best friend, teen spy Alex Rider must enter the world of virtual reality gaming where the lines between what's real and what's digital are deliberately being blurred by a ruthless enemy.
39) Nightshade
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
Author
Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
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.