George Washington's Spy
9 best books like George Washington's Spy (Elvira Woodruff): Broken Bone China, I Wanna Iguana, The Seventh Most Important Thing, A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights, One Dead Spy, The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman), An Elephant in the Garden, Hey, Little Ant, Alamo All-Stars
Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.
It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally....
| Author | Karen Kaufman Orloff |
| ISBN | 0399237178 |
Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home. Alex's reassurances:...
The Seventh Most Important Thing
| Author | Shelley Pearsall |
| ISBN | 0553497286 |
It was a bitterly cold day when Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, not the head. But none of that matters to the judge—he is ready to send Arthur to juvie for the foreseeable future. Amazingly, it’s the Junk...
A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights
| Author | Kate Hannigan |
| ISBN | 1629794538 |
Unafraid to take to the floor and speak her mind, lawyer, activist, and presidential candidate Belva Lockwood devoted her life to overcoming obstacles and demanding equality for women.
Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men?...
Alternate cover edition here.
Nathan Hale, the author’s historical namesake, was America’s first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419715364 |
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north...
An Elephant in the Garden
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 0312593694 |
With Lizzie’s father fighting in World War II, her mother takes on the job of a zoo keeper to provide for her family. Lizzie, her mother, and her eight-year-old brother Karli have become especially attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene. The bombing of Dresden is imminent and soon, so the zoo...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 1883672546 |
What would you do if the ant you were about to step on looked up and started talking? Would you stop and listen? What if your friends saw you hesitate? That’s what happens in this funny, thought-provoking book. Originally a song by a father-daughter team, this conversation between two creatures, large...
“Remember the Alamo!” That rallying cry has been a part of Texas lore for generations. But who were the ragtag group of adventurers behind the famous slogan, and how did they end up barricaded in a fort against a Mexican army? Who survived, who died, and how? This sixth book in the bestselling Hazardous...
