Spy School Books in Order

Spy School (2012)⁠^[19-20] introduces twelve-year-old Ben Ripley as he enters the CIA’s secret Academy of Espionage and discovers that his recruitment hides a dangerous purpose. His early training combines classes, rivalries, and an investigation into an enemy presence on campus.⁠^[16]

The novel establishes Ben, the academy, the Hale family, and the conflict continued in later main books.⁠^[16]

Spy Camp (2013)⁠^[21-22] sends Ben to the academy’s wilderness-training facility as SPYDER renews its interest in him. Erica, Alexander, Cyrus, and Ben’s classmates join a mission involving hostages and an enemy threat.⁠^[3]

This book expands the SPYDER conflict and develops the Hale family storyline from the opening novel.⁠^[3]

Evil Spy School (2015)⁠^[23-24] begins with Ben apparently expelled from the Academy before SPYDER recruits him into its training operation. Working undercover, he must uncover the organization’s plans while surrounded by dangerous new classmates.⁠^[4]

This novel turns the established SPYDER conflict into an infiltration mission that depends on the first two books.⁠^[4]

Spy Ski School (2016)⁠^[25-26] sends Ben, Erica, and several classmates to Vail to investigate billionaire Leo Shang through his daughter Jessica. The winter-break assignment develops into a broader operation involving a threat in Colorado.⁠^[5]

This book advances Ben and Erica’s field partnership while continuing the consequences of the earlier SPYDER missions.⁠^[5]

Spy School Secret Service (2017)⁠^[27-28] places Ben undercover at the White House after intelligence indicates that the president may be in danger. The assignment draws on allies, enemies, and consequences from his earlier missions.⁠^[6]

This novel carries the ongoing conflict into a national-security assignment and assumes familiarity with Ben’s established allies and adversaries.⁠^[6]

Spy School Goes South (2018)⁠^[29-30] begins when Murray offers information that could lead Ben and Erica toward SPYDER’s leadership. The mission takes the team to Mexico, where previous enemies and allies return.⁠^[7]

This novel advances the long-running SPYDER investigation and sets up the pursuit continued in Spy School British Invasion.⁠^[7]

Spy School British Invasion (2019)⁠^[31-32] opens after the Mexico mission, when a silver key offers a possible route toward SPYDER’s leadership. Ben and his allies travel through Britain and France while enemies and authorities pursue them.⁠^[8]

This book carries the SPYDER investigation across Europe and develops consequences from the Mexico mission.⁠^[8]

Spy School Revolution (2020)⁠^[33-34] forces Ben to investigate a crisis involving Erica and the CIA. The mission introduces the Croatoan and uncovers secrets connected with the Hale family.⁠^[9]

This novel shifts the continuing conflict toward a new organization while expanding the Hale family storyline.⁠^[9]

Spy School at Sea (2021)⁠^[35-36] sends Ben, Erica, Mike, Catherine, and Alexander aboard a cruise ship while they search for Murray. Their investigation uncovers a threat involving the vessel and the Panama Canal.⁠^[10]

This novel returns Murray to the central plot and continues the relationships and consequences developed in earlier missions.⁠^[10]

Spy School Project X (2022)⁠^[37-38] begins when an attack on the academy leaves Ben facing a campaign organized against him. The students try to locate Murray and stop the threat while assassins and conspiracy theorists pursue them.⁠^[11]

This novel changes the academy’s circumstances and creates the conditions for the series’ Alaska phase.⁠^[11]

Spy School Goes North (2023)⁠^[39-40] follows Ben, Erica, Zoe, and Mike after they relocate to a secret training facility in Alaska. Cyrus’s abduction draws them into a Russian operation connected with the history of the Alaska Purchase.⁠^[12]

This book develops the new training setting and carries the principal storyline into the team’s Alaska period.⁠^[12]

Spy School Goes Wild (2024)⁠^[41-42] begins during the team’s Alaska training before Ben is removed for what appears to be another CIA assignment. His ordeal in southern Africa becomes a mission involving diamonds and the Okavango Delta.⁠^[13]

This novel builds on the Alaska period while continuing the danger associated with Murray.⁠^[13]

Spy School Blackout (2025)⁠^[43-44] follows the team from Africa to Java, where a cyberattack shuts down electrical grids worldwide. Their search for the person responsible brings them into conflict with the hacker Orion and his operation.⁠^[14]

This novel expands the series’ scope to a global cyber crisis and establishes the problem continued in Spy School Goes East.⁠^[14]

Spy School Goes East, which will be published on October 6, 2026,⁠^[45-46] sends Ben and his fellow spies-in-training to China after the adult members of the Hale family disappear. The mission ranges from Shanghai and the Great Wall to the Gobi Desert.⁠^[15]

This book continues the unresolved disappearance from the end of Spy School Blackout.⁠^[15]

Untitled Spy School book is an announced main installment that will be published in fall 2027.⁠^[47]