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Double Vision

F.T. Bradley

"After a routine school field trip goes awry, Linc Baker is thrust into a world of intrigue and espionage, where a kid agent who looks exactly like him threatens to use powerful artifacts to control the world"--

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistFast-PacedSeries Starter
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SilverFin

Charlie Higson · 416 pages

Prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces the young James when he is just starting boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure.

Teen ProtagonistMiddle GradeFast-PacedThriller
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The Boundless

Kenneth Oppel · 332 pages

Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.

TrainsMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistFast-Paced
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Independence Hall

Roland Smith

Middle GradeFast-PacedTeen ProtagonistThriller
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Red Notice

Andy McNab · 438 pages

Deep beneath the English Channel, a small army of vicious terrorists has seized control of the Eurostar to Paris, taken 400 hostages at gunpoint and declared war on a government that has more than its own fair share of secrets to keep. One man stands in their way. An off-duty SAS soldier is hiding somewhere inside the train. Alone and injured, he's the only chance the passengers and crew have of g

TrainsFast-PacedThrillerSeries Starter
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Itch: The Explosive Adventures of an Element Hunter

Simon Mayo · 428 pages

When fourteen-year-old Itchingham "Itch" Lofte discovers a new radioactive element, he must use all of his wits and scientific knowledge to stop a top-secret government agency, his greedy teacher, and an evil corporation from getting hold of it.

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistFast-PacedThriller
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Dragon Head, Volume 1

Minetaro Mochizuki · 192 pages

TrainsTeen ProtagonistSeries StarterThriller
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Murder on the Canadian

Eric Wilson · 95 pages

Tom Austen, an aspiring detective, unravels a murder mystery while on a three-day transcontinental journey aboard "The Canadian."

TrainsMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
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Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz · 237 pages

They told him his uncle died in a car accident. Fourteen-year-old Alex knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing prepares him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for MI6—Britain's top secret intelligence agency. Recruited to find his uncle's killers and complete his final mission, Alex suddenly finds hi

Teen ProtagonistMiddle GradeFast-PacedThriller
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The Hypnotists

Gordon Korman · 143 pages

Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.

Teen ProtagonistMiddle GradeFast-PacedSeries Starter
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The Chase

Clive Cussler · 416 pages

For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years.April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the e

TrainsFast-PacedThrillerSeries Starter
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Middle GradeFast-PacedTeen ProtagonistThriller
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The Wrecker

Clive Cussler, Justin Scott · 696 pages

In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse.It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Casca

TrainsFast-PacedThrillerMale Lead
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The Escape

Robert Muchamore · 298 pages

As two British children are being hunted by German agents, British spy Charles Henderson is trying to reach them first, but to do it he must depend on the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan.

Teen ProtagonistMiddle GradeFast-PacedSeries Starter
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The Mark of the Dragonfly

Jaleigh Johnson · 400 pages

Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant lands. (From LOC data.)

TrainsMiddle GradeFast-PacedSeries Starter
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The Shadow Club

Neal Shusterman · 199 pages

When a junior high school boy and his friends decide to form a club of "second bests" and play anonymous tricks on each other's arch rivals, the harmless pranks escalate until they become life-threatening.

Teen ProtagonistMiddle GradeThrillerSeries Starter
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Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

Suzanne Collins · 312 pages

In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld.

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistFast-PacedSeries Starter
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The Vampire's Assistant

Darren Shan · 256 pages

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistFast-PacedSeries Starter
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When the Whistle Blows

Fran Cannon Slayton · 162 pages

Jimmy lives in Rowlesburg, West Virginia, during the 1940s. He does all the things boys do in the small mountain town: plays a mean game of football, pulls the unforgettable Halloween prank with his friends in the Platoon, and promises to head off into the woods on the first day of hunting season no matter what. He also knows his father belongs to a secret society, and is determined to uncover the

TrainsMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistMale Lead
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Codename Zero

Chris Rylander · 368 pages

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistSeries StarterThriller
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Traitor

Andy McNab, Robert Rigby · 288 pages

Teen ProtagonistFast-PacedSeries StarterThriller
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Rick Riordan · 1,032 pages

Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistFast-PacedSeries Starter
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The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West

Kristiana Gregory · 203 pages

As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.

TrainsMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistSeries
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Middle GradeTeen ProtagonistFast-PacedSeries Starter

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