18 books like Riverside
Secret Agents Four
Several boys chase a suspicious man who turns out to be a spy, so the boys form society VACUUM which will aid a national organization of secret agents in apprehending other spies.
Shares: Spies, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction
Choose Your Own Adventure - Beyond Escape!
In the year 2041 you, the reader, are Chief of Operations for a peaceful country. Your two best agents are missing and an enemy spy has stolen your topsecret files. You decide what to do next.
Shares: Spies, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction
Sly Spy
E.J. the spy tries to uncover a secret that Olivia is keeping for a client.
Shares: Spies, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction
Keeper
An extraordinary novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize.Paul Faustino, South America's top sports writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato – the Cat – the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup... In the hours that follow, El Gato tells his incredible story – how he, a poor logger's son, learns to become a…
Shares: Soccer, Children's fiction
War Game
Based on a true account of a soccer game played between the German and English troops in no-man's land on Christmas Day in 1914 during World War I, this book tells the story of four young men who have recently enlisted and have found that war is not as glamorous as they had once thought. The young men get to realize their dream of playing soccer for England when the English and German sides hold…
Shares: Soccer, Children's fiction
Maura's Angel
Just when her home life and the circumstances in violence-plagued Belfast seem more than she can bear, eleven-year-old Maura encounters an unusual person whose name, Angela, gives a clue to her real identity.
Shares: Ireland, Children's fiction
Rabbit and Robot
“This provocative jaunt…dissects society, technology, othering, and what makes humanity human.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An unpredictable, gross, and prescient rumination on modernity, media consumption, and machine-aided communication.” —Booklist (starred review)Told with Andrew Smith’s signature dark humor, Rabbit & Robot tells the story of Cager Messer, a boy who’s stranded on the…
Shares: Humorous stories, Friendship, Children's fiction
Deadtime Stories
Another creepy tale for beside the campfire or beneath the covers from "Twisted Sisters" Annette and Gina Cascone's Deadtime Stories—now a hit show on Nickelodeon!
Peter Newman really wants a twenty-one-speed mountain bike. That's the grand prize for his school's talent competition. All he needs is a talent. So when Peter sees an ad for the Little Magic Shop of Horrors, he and his best friend Bo…
Shares: Motion Pictures, Humorous stories, Friendship, Children's fiction
Almost Starring Skinnybones
Irrepressible, twelve-year-old Alex is convinced that he will be a star and impress his schoolmates when, as the winner of a cat food essay contest, he is asked to make a commercial for national television.
Shares: Motion Pictures, Humorous stories, Children's fiction
Tic-Tac-Terror
The two young detectives solve a mystery involving a top secret government agency and a world-famous spy who wishes to defect to America.
Shares: Spies, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction
Alfred Hitchcock's Sinister Spies
A collection of short stories involving the daring of spies and counterspies.
Shares: Spies, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction
The House on the Borderland
The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house…
Shares: Ireland, Children's fiction
Scorpia Rising
This is the ninth (and possibly the concluding) installment to the Alex Rider series. The book was released in March, 2011. Notably, it portrays the ultimate destruction of the terrorist organization SCORPIA, the presence of which, as a main group of antagonists, was felt from the fourth through ninth installment of the series.
Shares: Spies, London, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction
Fathom five
A teenage boy and his friends spend the spring of 1943 trying to discover who in Garmouth, a sleepy English seaport, is passing information to the Germans.
Shares: Spies, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction
99 Fear Street
Kody Frasier has come back to Fear Street to be in the film about the house where Kody's sister and brother were killed by an evil spirit. But all her dead sister wants is revenge.
Shares: Motion Pictures, Children's fiction
The lighthouse war
Jamie and Ramsay figure out how to recharge the Salmon, the extraterrestrial device that allows them to travel through wormholes in space. Heading back to the planet Altair, Jamie discovers that the Witch Queen will do anything to get her hands on Jamie and the Salmon.
Shares: Ireland, Children's fiction
A Wizard Abroad
Sent on vacation to her aunt's home in Ireland, teenage wizard Nita becomes entangled in a magic battle to save the country from the ghosts of its past.
Shares: Ireland, Children's fiction
Maura's angel
Just when her home life and the circumstances in violence-plagued Belfast seem more than she can bear, eleven-year-old Maura encounters an unusual person whose name, Angela, gives a clue to her real identity.
Shares: Ireland, Children's fiction