The Summer Reading Program theme for 2007 is “You Never Know,” and it features mysteries. This week’s reading suggestion list focuses on books in which the main character is either a spy or a detective. The Horizontal Man: A Finnegan Zwake Mystery by Michael Dahl
Finnegan Zwake is a 13-year-old with a nose for mystery and adventure. His parents, archaeologists believed to be lost in Iceland, have left a storeroom full of Mexican treasure and their son in the care of his quirky uncle, mystery-author Stoppard Sterling. The treasures begin to disappear, two people are murdered, and mayhem abounds. Finnegan's mind is soon working overtime concocting likely scenarios as he becomes entangled in the complex, tightly woven plot.
The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
When aspiring forensic pathologist Cameryn Mahoney convinces her father, the county coroner of Silverton, CO, to hire her as his assistant, she has no idea she will have to investigate the death of her friend, Rachel Geller. Rachel is the 4th victim of a serial killer. Cameryn must put her emotions aside in order to evaluate information clinically, but she also puts herself in danger of becoming the 5th victim of the Christopher Killer.
Spy High by A.J. Butcher
Some decades in the future, six teenagers from various walks of life are recruited to attend the prestigious Deveraux Academy. They soon find out why the institution is known by its students as "Spy High," as they are assigned to be teammates on Bond Team. A typical day of the teens' rigorous academic schedule involves learning about laser weapons, disarming bombs and maneuvering a SkyBike.
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls by Bennett Madison
Lulu loses her purse–the one with gorgeous Alfy Romero's phone number in it–and she wants it back. Along with her friends Charlie and Daisy, she sets out to find it and becomes enmeshed in a wild and crazy case of identity theft and homicide.
Silverfin by Charlie Higson (Young James Bond series)
Read about James Bond’s teen years at an English boarding school and his adventures at his aunt and uncle’s estate in Scotland. 13 year old James is already making dangerous enemies, building up his athlete skills, and narrowly escaping death at every turn.
Snatched by Pete Hautman and Mary Logue
Pushy high school reporter, Roni Delicata, teams up with science geek Brian Bain, to investigate the kidnapping of Alicia Camden, the snooty new kid who lives in a mansion with her cold mother and bland stepfather. Could the culprit be Alicia's stepfather? Driftwood Doug? Or Alicia's unpleasant ex-boyfriend? There are several mysteries and some unusual twists.
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider's world is turned upside down when he discovers that his uncle and guardian has been murdered. He soon learns that the Special Operations Division of M16 was his uncle's real employer, and MI6 blackmails the teen into serving England. After two short weeks of training, Alex is sent on a mission is to complete his uncle's last assignment: discover the secret that Herod Sayle is hiding behind his generous donation of one supercomputer for every school in the country. (Graffiti book review)
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
An avid reader of Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid Levin-Hill, 13, is also a soccer player with an interest in stage acting. An eccentric member of the local theater troupe is murdered, and Ingrid becomes involved since she’s been cast in their latest play, Alice in Wonderland. Ingrid secretly undertakes a series of suspenseful adventures to track down the killer. IN the process, she befriends the police chief's son, Joey Strade.
I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
15-year-old Cammie attends an all girls spy school. Cammie and her friends speak 14 languages, take classes in Covert Operations, and can rappel down buildings and plant tracking devices. But when Cammie meets a cute boy in the middle of the town fair, she begins a new mission: learning to be an ordinary girlfriend. ("All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part"). Cammie soon leads a double life, and must decide which one is right for her. (Graffiti book review)
Danger.com series by Jordan Cray (Mysteries featuring the internet)
CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore (featuring a super secret division of MI5)
What it is about a secret that makes you want to share it?
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.) New secrets are posted there every Sunday. Read the Postsecret website each week. Several books have been made from the postcards that author Frank Warren has received as part of this project. Check out PostSecret : Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives and My secret : a PostSecret book from our library. 
Saint Iggy
fingerprints from crime scenes, and how those fingerprints are identified. Presented by Kelly Woodward and Jaci Durr from the KBI.
M or F? 
Stacey Fox, technical director for film studies at The University of Kansas, is the instructor at the boot camp that runs the week of June 11-15. Jackson Hermann describes his experience, “You can fly around and build things, you can have a superhero costume and things like that.” Jean Gardner, young adult librarian, created the boot camp so the students could create virtual dioramas of their favorite books. 
have anticipated for weeks the “coming live” of OZ Island. For next few weeks Oz Island will be a closed society while the pilot group of students from Hope Street Academy have the first lessons in building and creating a virtual world. The instructors are Dr Marcus Childress, Chair, Instructional Design and Technology at Emporia State University and his graduate assistant, Howard West. David Antonacci from KU Med Center will join the students virtually. 
make all the plans that will make your first year in college a success.