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Spy Ski School

Spy School Series

Author: Stuart Gibbs

Book 4 in the Spy School series

Pages: 384

Published: 2016

Age: 9+

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 seen—he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive. His enemies have kidnapped him, shot at him, locked him in a room with a ticking time bomb, and even tried to blow him up with missiles. And he’s survived every time. After all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real.

The Mission: Become friends with Jessica Shang, the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss, and find out all of her father’s secrets.

Ben might not be able to handle a weapon (or a pair of skis), but he can make friends easy-peasy. That is, until his best friend from home drops in on the trip and jeopardizes the entire mission…

About the Spy School Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Spy School(2012)
  2. 2.Spy Camp(2013)
  3. 3.Evil Spy School(2015)
  4. 4.Spy Ski School(2016)
  5. 5.Spy School Secret Service(2017)
  6. 6.Spy School Goes South(2018)
  7. 7.Spy School British Invasion(2019)
  8. 8.Spy School Revolution(2020)
  9. 9.Spy School at Sea(2021)
  10. 10.Spy School Project X(2022)
  11. 11.Spy School Goes North(2023)
  12. 12.Spy School Goes Wild(2024)
  13. 13.Blackout(2025)

Reading age: 8+ years

This series should be read in order.

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Can an undercover nerd become a superstar agent? Ben Ripley sure hopes so—and his life may depend on it!

Ben Ripley may only be in middle school, but he’s already pegged his dream job: CIA or bust. Unfortunately for him, his personality doesn’t exactly scream “secret agent.” In fact, Ben is so awkward, he can barely get to school and back without a mishap. Because of his innate nerdiness, Ben is not surprised when he is recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science—but he’s entirely shocked to discover that the school is actually a front for a junior CIA academy. Could the CIA really want him?

“Combines Alex Rider’s espionage skills with a huge dose of the sarcasm of Artemis Fowl.” —School Library Journal