Books like Virtual War by Gloria Skurzynski

Jason, Piper and Leo awaken at a school for misfits, only to discover they are demigods with forgotten pasts, leading them to Camp Half-Blood where monsters and a missing camper await.

Annabeth, daughter of Athena, must overcome her fears and protect her Greek friends from the Roman camp during the quest to find the Mark of Athena.

Carter and Sadie Kane must stop the god Set after their father’s experiment at the British Museum unleashes danger, embarking on a globe‑spanning quest that uncovers family secrets and the ancient secret society of Egyptian gods.

Carter and Sadie Kane must destroy the chaos snake Apophis, but their quest is threatened by a powerful magician who might guide them to their deaths instead.

Artemis Fowl uses stolen fairy tech to build a microcomputer that falls into an American businessman’s hands—Artemis, his sister Juliet, friend Mulch, and the fairies must team up to recover it.

In the final instalment of the Bartimaeus trilogy, magician Nathaniel, fellow magician Kitty, and the weary djinni Bartimaeus confront war, rebellion, and a dangerous conspiracy that threatens London and the fragile peace between humans and djinn.

Alianne, daughter of the legendary knight Alanna, becomes a master spy whose skills keep her alive amid political intrigue, conspiracy, and divine conflict in the Russo‑Tortall world.

When rookie Beka Cooper, a Provost's Guard with a gift for hearing the dead, is assigned to the Lower City, she must use her unique talent to track two murderers while the rest of the Guard battles the fire opal killer.

In the immersive virtual‑reality game “Heir Apparent,” teen heroine Giannine must navigate hazards, collect a magic ring and stolen treasure, solve riddles, and battle monsters to survive the deadly quest.

Cassia and Ky chase the elusive Rising after leaving Society, displaying undercover and aerial adventure, while Xander hides a vital secret that threatens to disrupt their fragile unity.

After a nuclear war, teenage girl Ann believes she is alone on Earth—until she encounters another survivor, forcing her to confront survival, hope, and human connection in a bleak, post‑apocalyptic world.

Downsiders follows 14‑year‑old Lindsay as she discovers the hidden community of Downsiders living in New York’s subway tunnels, navigating friendship and cultural differences in a coming‑of‑age adventure.

Lawrence Freedman examines how military futurists misread the nature of war, arguing that long‑term conflicts, civil wars and blurred lines between peace and conflict shape today’s strategic thinking.

This latest work (portions of which have appeared in the New Yorker and elsewhere) completes an unplanned trilogy that took shape around current events. Like the trilogy's previous two titles (Blood and Belonging and The Warrior's Honor), this book critiques the West's selective use of military power to protect human rights and the failure of Western governments to "back principle with decisive military force"--But here Ignatieff pushes this critique a step further, attempting to explain the paradox of the West's moral activism around human rights and its unwillingness to use force or put its own soldiers at risk: war, he suggests, has ceased to be real to those with technological mastery. Whereas Kosovo "looked and sounded like a war" to those on the ground, it was a virtual event for citizens of NATO countries--it was "a spectacle: it aroused emotions in the intense but shallow way that sports do." In other words, the basic equality of moral risk (kill or be killed) in traditional war was replaced by something akin to "a turkey shoot." In a series of profiles of major players in the Kosovo crisis (including American negotiator Richard Holbrook and war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour and Aleksa Djilas, a Yugoslav opposed to the bombing), as well as in other writings--including a fine, concluding essay--the author presents a strong argument on the need to avoid wars that let the West off easily and don't have clear-cut results.

A juvenile science‑fiction adventure that explores individuality, self‑reliance, and self‑control in a futuristic setting.

After two years in a prison school, thirteen‑year‑old Sloe embarks across Siberia’s frozen tundra to care for the secret “seeds” of endangered animals left by her mother, seeking a new life for them all.