Spy Schoolbooks are a series of young adult novels by the American author Stuart Gibbs. The series centers on Benjamin Ripley, the least ordinary twelve-year-old boy you can imagine. While his peers are outside playing, Benjamin attends a secret CIA school for young spies and saves the world on a regular basis.
Who is the author of Spy School books?
Stuart Gibbs is one of the most popular children’s and young adult authors, most known for hisSpy SchoolandFunJunglebook series. Gibbs was born in 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he spent his early childhood and discovered his passion for storytelling, which led him to become a screenwriter for movies and TV shows for ABC, Fox, and Nickelodeon.
Gibbs started his career as a novelist in 2010, when his debut novel,Belly Up, came out. The book met a lot of success, inspiring Gibbs to continue working on new stories that would later be known as theFunJungleseries and include seven books in total.
Gibbs is an outdoorsman, enjoying real-life adventures with his children, whom he regularly takes on hiking and ski trips. His biggest literary inspirations are Roald Dahl and Douglas Adams, whose humor often shines through on Gibbs’s own pages.
An intro to Stuart Gibbs’s writings
Since his career took off in 2010, Gibbs has written numerous children’s and young adult books across several long-running series, such as the Spy School, Fun Jungle, Moon Base Alpha, Charlie Thorne, and The Last Musketeer series. In addition, Gibbs has also written several graphic novels, including aBatmanstory. In 2023, he is set to release eight new books.
The Spy School series
TheSpy Schoolnovels are Gibbs’s most widely read series. It features ten novels released in the past decade, with new installments planned for 2023.
The story follows the exploits of Ben Ripley, a twelve-year-old middle school student recruited by the CIA for their secret agent program for young children. While seemingly leading a normal life, Ben is constantly on his way to save the world, accompanied by his extraordinary schoolmates, who help him take down one villain after another.
The books are meant for ages 8 to 12.
Publication order of Spy School series
If you want to read theSpy Schoolseries in order and join Ben, Erica, and other superspies on their junior CIA academy top-secret training program, you can read the novels as they were published:
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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“Combines Alex Rider’s espionage skills with a huge dose of the sarcasm of Artemis Fowl.” —School Library Journal Can an undercover nerd become a superstar agent? In the first book in the New York Times bestselling Spy... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
4.44
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4.44
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In the second book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, top-secret training continues into summer for aspiring spy Ben Ripley–and so does the danger.Ben Ripley is a middle schooler whose school is not exactly... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
4.53
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4.53
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In the third book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben gets kicked out of the CIA’s spy school and enrolls with the enemy.During a spy school game of Capture the Flag, twelve-year-old Ben Ripley accidentally shoots a live... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
4.58
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4.58
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In the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep.Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
4.57
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In the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the president.Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley has had a lot of field success despite... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
4.56
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4.56
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In the sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben is taken to Mexico by his nemesis in the hopes that he’ll finally be able to take down SPYDER.Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley has been caught in the snares of SPYDER more... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
4.58
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In the seventh book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley is finally going to take SPYDER down, once and for all.Stranded in Mexico after nearly capturing the leaders of SPYDER, thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley desperately... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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In the eighth book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley faces the Croatoan–a new evil organization that’s so mysterious, the only proof it exists is from the American Revolution.With SPYDER defeated, Ben Ripley... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
4.6
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4.6
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In the ninth addition to the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley faces his nemesis, Murray Hill, on the high seas.Thanks to the evidence Ben uncovered in his investigation of the Croatoan, the CIA has tracked his nemesis, Murray... Read more
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- By: Stuart Gibbs
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
4.5
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In the tenth book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley races against time and across state lines–by car, train, boat, and plane–to avoid his new cyber enemies and track down Murray Hill.Ben Ripley’s... Read more
