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Spy on History: Mary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring

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Mary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring introduces an exciting interactive series for middle grade readers—Spy on History, where the reader gets to experience history in a whole new way.

Meet Mary Bowser, an African American spy who used to be in a position to infiltrate the Confederate leadership on the highest level. Enigma Alberti dramatizes Mary Bowser’s suspenseful story—how she pretended to be illiterate, how she masterfully avoided detection, how she used her photographic memory to “copy” vital documents.

The usage of spycraft materials included in a sealed envelope within the book, a canny reader will be capable to discover and get to the bottom of clues embedded within the text and illustrations, and solve the book’s ultimate mystery: Where did Mary hide her secret diary?

 


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