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YA Espionage and Spies

Unassuming, talented and highly trained spies are everywhere in these books. Some are set during World War II, some are romantic and all of them are action packed!

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  • What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher's alien technology, bizarre powers and...tentacles?! Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"? What would it take to justify such…
    Comic Book, 2012–San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, LLC, 2012- — GRAPHIC NOVEL ASS
  • Gifted college student Jennifer Kaijwara is approached by a secret government organization to become a field agent, and must face the grueling training process as well as the disapproval from her family.
    Comic Book, 2011–[Los Angeles, CA] : Seven Seas Entertainment, 2011- — GRAPHIC NOVEL AMA
  • Meet the orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time--from #1 New York Times bestselling author! 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…
    Paperback, 2006Speak, 2006. — H
  • Home is where the hurt is! And the Black Widow has plenty of that. She may be an Avenger and an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. but the Widow has her own mission: to atone for her past as a KGB assassin. Her methods are dirty. Her heart is cold. But her work…
    Comic Book, 2014New York : Marvel Worldwide Inc., 2014. — GRAPHIC NOVEL BLA
  • In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the…
    Book, 2022New York : Philomel Books, 2022. — FIC SEP
  • In a secret organization that cultivates teenage spies, the stakes are high for two agents, Caden and Dylan, whose mission to compete for a girl destined for great power becomes complicated when Caden finds himself falling in love with his…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Feiwel and Friends, 2017. — FIC DIE
  • Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she…
    Book, 2010Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010. — FIC LEE
  • Josie Black can infiltrate any building, speak a dozen languages, and fight like a martial arts master. But no one told her that. After J.B. detects gaps in her memory, her mom reveals the truth: she works for a covert agency, and she's give J.B.…
    Comic Book, 2021Minneapolis, MN : Graphic Universe, c2021. — GRAPHIC NOVEL AND
  • Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment--get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his…
    Comic Book, 2019–San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, LLC, 2019- — GRAPHIC NOVEL SPY
  • Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they…
    Book, 2012Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2012. — FIC WEI
  • Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II. This dramatic yet little-known saga, replete with telephone taps,…
    Book, 2015London : Constable, 2015. — 940.54874 KEN WIL
  • Sixteen-year-old Kari juggles saving her spy parents while impressing the guy she has been in love with forever.
    Book, 2013New York : Simon & Shuster BFYR, 2013. — FIC CAR
  • James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 which consists of teenage spies. He successfully completes his training and goes on his first mission.
    Book, 2010New York : Simon Pulse, 2010, c2004. — FIC MUC
  • In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and…
    Book, 2013New York : Little, Brown, 2013. — FIC CAR
  • When Cammie Morgan arrives at her friend Macey's five-star hotel for the Democratic National Convention, where Macey's father is about to receive the vice presidential nomination, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. But if…
    Book, 2009New York, NY : Disney/Hyperion Books, [2009] — FIC CAR
  • Tales of Espionage: My Mountain follows Millie Blake, a young operative who reluctantly takes on a covert mission in remote British Columbia. Enlisting the help of her friends, who are initially unaware of the true purpose of their departure, she…
    Book, 2024[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2024] — FIC SOM