James Ponti
1) City spies
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2023 Bluestem Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
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2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 Rebecca Caudill Award
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Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City juvenile justice system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, she finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets Sara released from jail but also offers her a chance to make a home for herself within a secret team of MI6 agents....
2) Vanished!
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Aladdin
Publication Date
2017.
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English
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In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret must uncover the truth behind a series of private middle school pranks that may or may not involve the daughter of the President of the United States.
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Siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock take their last name as inspiration when choosing a summer job. After all, starting a detective agency has to be better than babysitting (boring), lawn mowing (sweaty), or cleaning out the attic (boring and sweaty). Their friends Lina, an avid bookworm, and Yadi, an aspiring cinematographer, join the enterprise, and Alex and Zoe's retired reporter grandfather offers up his sweet aquamarine Cadillac convertible and storage...
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"After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission -- once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Meanwhile, Sydney's embedded...
5) Framed!
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In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret help thwart the biggest art heist in United States history.
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"Codename Kathmandu, better known as Kat, loves logic and order, has a favorite eight-digit number, and can spot a pattern from a mile away. So when a series of cyberattacks hits key locations in London while the spies are testing security for the British Museum, it's clear that Kat's skill for finding reason in what seems like randomness makes her the perfect candidate to lead the job. And while the team follows the deciphered messages to Egypt and...
7) Golden Gate
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Rebel surfer-turned-field ops specialist Sydney finds herself in hot water while undercover on a marine research vessel, while her City Spies teammates investigate a suspected mole.
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The City Spies head to the Big Apple when a credible threat is made to a young climate activist who is scheduled to speak in front of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly. With Rio acting as alpha and a new member in their ranks, the team's mission to protect a fellow teen takes them on an exciting adventure in, around, and even under the greatest city in the world as they follow leads to the outer boroughs, the UN Headquarters, and even the...
10) Hurricane heist
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A hurricane unearths a decades-old mystery when a bell captain's body is discovered at a historic Miami Beach hotel, leading twelve-year-old Alex and the other members of the Sherlock Society to uncover the truth behind a long-lost million-dollar jewel heist.
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Aladdin
Publication Date
2018.
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English
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Middle schoolers Florian and Margaret are determined to catch a spy who is implicating their FBI supervisor, Marcus Rivers, in a variety of crimes--even if they have to break into, and out of, the Library of Congress to do it.-- Provided by Publisher.
12) Europa
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Aladdin
Publication Date
2026.
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English
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"When Umbra threatens to attack multiple high-level targets across Europe unless Le Fantôme is released from prison, the City Spies have to split up and race across the continent solving codes and chasing clues in hopes that they can thwart the attacks and keep Le Fantôme from going free"-- Provided by publisher.
13) Dead City
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Aladdin
Publication Date
2012.
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English
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Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider, even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology, but that changes when she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group that polices and protects zombies.
15) Dark days
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Dead City volume 3
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Aladdin
Publication Date
2015.
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English
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"Molly Bigelow and her Omega team have been banned from investigating Marek Blackwell and his plans for New York City. But when they discover that Blackwell is raising money for a zombie army they have to act. But will they be in time?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Disney Press
Publication Date
[2006]
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English
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"Lucy Miller is a very lucky girl. Her Uncle Scott is Santa Claus, and this Christmas he's invited her to the North Pole! But sneaky Jack Frost wants to destroy Santa's workshop. Can Lucy find a way to save her uncle's workshop... and Christmas?"--p. 4 of cover.
17) Psyched
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That's so Raven (Series) volume 10
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Disney Press
Publication Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Raven tries to use her paranormal talents to attract a boy to her.
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Sherlock Society (Series) (Spanish) volume 1
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Duomo ediciones
Publication Date
2025.
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Español
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Twelve-year-old Alex Sherlock, his thirteen-year-old sister Zoe, and their friends Lina and Yadi decide to spend their summer in Miami investigating the many "cold cases" their grandfather accumulated during his years as a reporter--first up, Al Capone and a buried treasure.
Llega el verano y, para todos, eso significa sol y diversión, salvo para los hermanos Alex y Zoe Sherlock. Si se hubieran llamado «los hermanos Pringles» quizá se hubiesen...


