Christopher Cool facts for kids
Christopher Cool: TEEN Agent was a super cool series of spy novels for kids. These books were written between 1967 and 1969 by a group called the Stratemeyer Syndicate and published by Grosset & Dunlap. The author was listed as Jack Lancer, but that was actually a fake name! The real writer was a ghostwriter working for the Syndicate. Later, in 1989, a writer named Jim Lawrence said he was the one who wrote the series. Jim Lawrence also wrote the famous James Bond newspaper comic strips.
This series was created because spy stories were super popular back then. There were six books in total. In the stories, Christopher Cool and other agents from TEEN (which stands for Top-Secret Educational Espionage Network) fought against TOAD, a bad group of criminals who caused trouble all over the world.
Who are the TEEN Agents?
Christopher Cool wasn't alone! He had a team of awesome TEEN agents helping him.
- Geronimo Johnson was a Native American friend and Christopher's partner.
- Spice Carter was a smart student from Vassar College.
- Yummi Toyama was a Japanese-American student who went to a college called "Berkeley."
- Beauregard Tatum was an African-American student from Harvard.
These brave TEEN agents traveled to many different countries on their missions. Like all good spies, they had lots of cool spy gadgets to help them!
The Christopher Cool Book List
Here are the exciting books in the series:
- X Marks the Spy (1967)
- Mission: Moonfire (1967)
- Department of Danger (1967)
- Ace of Shadows (1967)
- Heads You Lose (1968)
- Trial by Fury (1969)
Christopher Cool Around the World
The Christopher Cool books were popular in other countries too! All six novels were published in France by Hachette between 1969 and 1973. In France, the series was called Chris Cool. The books were also translated into Swedish, but Christopher's name was changed to "Ronnie Clark" there.
