Record Number |
849553 |
ISBN |
9780399557095 (paperback) |
Author |
Hopkinson, Deborah author. |
Title |
How I became a spy : a mystery of WWII London / Deborah Hopkinson. |
Publisher/Date |
New York : Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. |
©2019 |
Pagination etc. |
264 pages : map ; 20 cm. |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255) |
Summary Note |
"Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). Leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of Eleanor and his friend David, a Jewish refugee--and, of course, his trusty pup, Little Roo--Bertie must decipher the notebook in time to stop a double agent from spilling the biggest secret of all to the Nazis". |
Target audience note |
8-12 years old. |
Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Juvenile fiction |
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction |
Code and cipher stories -- Juvenile fiction |
Children's stories |
London (England) -- History -- Juvenile fiction |
Detective and mystery fiction. |
Historical fiction. |
Cryptologic fiction. |
Spy fiction. |
War fiction. |
Shelf Location |
JF HOPK |