"Rick Dial has the potential to be a hero. He just doesn't know it yet. Rick's high school football team couldn't be stopped when he was leading them as their quarterback. He was going to Syracuse on a scholarship. But then his dad abandoned them and a terrible accident left him crippled.Certain his old life is completely lost, Rick spends months hiding away in his room playing video games. He achieves the highest scores on so many games that he'sapproached by a government agency who claims to be trying to thwart a cyber attack on America that would destroy the technological infrastructure of the entire country. The agents say that the quick-thinking of a quarterback coupled with Nick's gaming experience make him perfect for this assignment. The problem is that there are no extra lives and this isn't just a game. but Rick doesn't have many other options at the moment. Entering The Realm gives Rick the one thing he thought he'd never have again: a body that's as fast and as strong as he ever was before the accident. But the more time he spends in The Realm, the more questions he has. What secrets are these agents keeping from him? What really happened to his father? How many others have gone into The Realm already. and failed? And perhaps most important, is he the hero they think he is?"--.
When Jake Lukin, eighteen, reveals his psychic ability, he is forced to become a government asset in order to keep his mother and sister safe, but Rachel, the girl he likes, tries to help him live his own life instead of tunneling through others.
In June 1941, Otto and Leni, two young refugees from the Nazis living in England, are sent on a secret mission to Bavaria, to extract a young girl attending a summer camp who may hold the key to the war.
Alison, Jake, and their undercover nanny are on the trail of an artist who is threatening the president and planning to destroy national treasures in Washington, D.C.
"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--Provided by publisher.
In a brutal empire modeled on ancient Rome, Elias, an unwilling solder-in-training, and Laia, who has embarked on a desperate ruse to save her condemned brother, must decide where their loyalties lie when fate brings them together.
At Desert Mountain Academy, sixteen-year-old Nadia Riley begins a punishing routine to become an undercover CIA agent, but when a double-agent is reported on campus, she is the top suspect.
Describes the world of an undercover agent, discussing the skills needed to work undercover, the technology that they use, and why there is a need to go undercover.
"When top fashion designer Belle La Lune goes missing, and Aunt Venetia becomes a prime suspect, teen-sleuth Axelle Andersen must go undercover as a model during Paris Fashion Week to uncover the truth behind Belle's disappearance and clear her aunt's name"--Provided by publisher.
