Alias Dragonfly
Book 1 of the Alias Series
by Jane Singer
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Pub Date Nov 01 2011 | Archive Date Jul 07 2017
Description
Fifteen years old. Wanted: Dead or Alive.
"Don't love a spy," warns fifteen-year-old Pinkerton agent Maddie Bradford, a lonely, rebellious outsider with a mind on fire and a photographic memory. It is 1861, the Civil War has just started and this motherless teen must move with her soldier-father from New Hampshire to Washington, DC-a city at war, packed cheek by jowl with soldiers, Rebel spies, slave catchers and traitors of all stripes bent on waging a war of destruction against the Union, and President Lincoln himself.
Maddie's journal, written in secret, of course, begins with her arrival at her aunt's DC boardinghouse through the first year of the Civil War, a time, as Maddie puts it, full of "dips and dangers," when she becomes a fearless Union spy. And then there is the mysterious, maddening Jake Whitestone, a young man who awakens something equally dangerous in Maddie: Love in a time of terror.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781611940411 |
| PRICE | $9.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Elizabeth W, Reviewer
Maddie Bradford has never been one to sit idle, and she’s worried to death about her father, a soldier in the Union army. After being sent to live in D.C. with her only other living relative, a Confederate-sympathizing aunt, she’s desperate to help bring the war to close. This is when she meets Timothy Webster, a man posing as a Rebel, who recognizes her flawless recall skills and photographic memory as excellent attributes for a spy. He invites her to become part of Allan Pinkerton’s spy ring, a real-life historical organization that first hired women to work as spies. Singer uses an interesting, little-known bit of factual history as the basis for her material. The first half of the novel is slow going, but once the action starts teens will be turning pages till the end. Recommended for teens Ages 13-15.
Trisha P, Librarian
This was a awesome book I was sorry I was so late in finding it.
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