Stuart Gibbs

Stuart Gibbs (born June 11, 1969) is an American children's author. He has written five series: the FunJungle series, the Moon Base Alpha series, the Spy School series, the Charlie Thorne series, and the Last Musketeer series. He was a screenwriter for many years before becoming an author; among the movies he wrote the screenplay for are Showdown (1993), See Spot Run (2001), and Repli-Kate (2002).

For the table tennis player, see Stuart Gibbs (table tennis).

Stuart Gibbs
Gibbs at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1969-06-11) June 11, 1969 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Children's author
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Years active	1993–present
Website
stuartgibbs.com

Gibbs' books have been described as "fun, fast-paced."[1] and "entertaining".[2] He mainly writes mystery books.

Personal life

He was born in 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and moved to San Antonio, Texas when he was seven.

Gibbs lives in Los Angeles with his children Dashiell and Violet. His wife, Suzanne Patmore Gibbs, whom he married in 2005, was a successful TV executive who headed drama at ABC and then Sony's Tristar Television. He has a son and a daughter. His wife passed away during the writing of the sixth Spy School book in 2018. He stated in the acknowledgements of the book that many authors and others helped him and his children get through the difficult time.

Books

FunJungle series

The FunJungle series is about a boy named Theodore (Teddy) Fitzroy who lives with his family in the largest zoo in America, the (fictional) titular FunJungle. Teddy and his friends solve various mysteries that occur around the zoo, trying to watch out for people that will make his life harder, such as Marge "Large Marge" O'Malley and the ever dubious billionaire owner of FunJungle, J.J. McCracken. As the series progresses, Teddy becomes friends with and later starts dating J.J.'s daughter Summer McCracken. Currently, Teddy has solved six mysteries that revolve around a main zoo animal who is in danger.[3]

1. Belly Up (2010)
2. Poached (2014)
3. Big Game (2015)
4. Panda-monium (2017)
5. Lion Down (2019)
6. Tyrannosaurus Wrecks (2020)

7. Untitled (2021)

Spy School series

In the Spy School Series, twelve year old Benjamin Ripley gets recruited to the top secret CIA academy of espionage. He has several successful missions against the evil spy organization SPYDER with fellow spy Erica Hale.

Books:

1. Spy School (2012) Benjamin Ripley is originally recruited as "bait" to a catch a "mole" but ends up becoming a real spy due to his satisfactory achievement in his mission, where he stopped a bomb from exploding and killing several top espionage leaders.
2. Spy Camp (2013) In the second book in the series, Ben attends the CIA's 'summer camp' version of spy school. He meets Erica's grandfather, Cyrus Hale, who was a successful spy in his early days, and is still a top spy. SPYDER tries to recruit him, but he turns them down and foils their evil plans again.
3. Evil Spy School (2015) After being expelled from the CIA's top secret spy school, Ben is forced into SPYDER's espionage academy in their headquarters. SPYDER tricks him into doing complex mathematical problems to plan a missile strike on New York City. Later, he is saved from SPYDER by Erica and Cyrus, and prevents the missiles from launching.
4. Spy Ski School (2016) In the fourth book in the series, Ben, Erica, Cyrus, and several other students at the academy are sent to Vail, Colorado to keep tabs on Leo Shang, a Chinese billionaire who is at the resort. Ben befriends Shang's daughter Jessica, revealing the compassion Erica has for him that she has hidden under her icy personality. Ben finds out Shang's plan, and stops a nuclear bomb from destroying a good part of Colorado.
5. Spy School Secret Service (2017)
6. Spy School Goes South (2018) In this book, Ben and Erica are sent to Aquarius, a prestigious beach resort on the Yucatan Peninsula to follow SPYDER agent Murray Hill as he leads them to SPYDER's new headquarters. They find SPYDER is nuking Antarctica, causing a rapid speed-up of Global Warming. Together Ben and Erica foil their plans, as well as imprisoning some of their operatives.
7. Spy School British Invasion (2019) Taking place right after Spy School Goes South, Ben and Erica, with Erica's mom Catherine Hale (Who is in the MI6), follow a lead taking them to Mrs. E, the supreme leader of SPYDER, in Paris, France. They figure out SPYDER's final plan, and prevent it from taking place, as well as capturing Mrs. E, defeating SPYDER for good.
8. Spy School Revolution (2020)

9. Untitled (2021)

Moon Base Alpha series

The MBA series takes place in 2041 where Dashiell Gibson and his family are recruited to go to Moon Base Alpha, the first human galactic colony. Dashiell has to solve mysteries in each book.[4]

1. Space Case (2014)
2. Spaced Out (2016)
3. Waste of Space (2018)

The Last Musketeer series

The Last Musketeer series is about a boy named Greg who goes back in time to the time of the Three Musketeers to save his parents.

1. The Last Musketeer (2011)
2. Traitor's Chase (2012)
3. Double Cross (2013)

Charlie Thorne series

The Charlie Thorne series centers around a 12 year old genius named Charlie Thorne, who is trying to recover a deadly equation referred to as Pandora, which was written by Albert Einstein. And if Pandora gets in the wrong hands, deadly things could happen.

1. Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (2019)
2. Charlie Throne and the Lost City (2021)

References

1. Tracy Moore. "Spy School". www.commonsensemedia.org. Common Sense Media Inc. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
2. "Spy Camp". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. February 27, 2013. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
3. "Funjungle". Simon & Schuster, Inc. October 2, 2018.
4. "'Space Case' and 'The Twin Powers'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-10-02.