A Spy in the King's Colony

By Lisa Banim

Book Overview

An exciting series of Historical Fiction starring great events in America's past and spunky young protagonists who help solve mysteries in their times. Silver Moon Press has discovered that the way to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189311001X
• ISBN13: 9781893110014
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Silver Moon Press
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A mixture of historical fiction, mystery, and adventure

This book is part of the Mysteries In Time series, each of which revolves around a young person solving a mystery. In this book, eleven-year-old Emily Parker lives in British-occupied Boston in 1776, and her father is a doctor, who is also an ardent and active patriot. But trouble comes for Emily, when she begins to suspect that their neighbor, Robert Babcock, is actually a spy for the British. Emily must figure out what Robert is up to, and stop him before he can bring danger to her family. There's a lot going on in Boston, and somehow Emily must get to the bottom of things.This is a very nice book, having a good mixture of historical fiction, mystery, and adventure. My twelve-year-old daughter liked the characters and setting, and has been developing a love of mysteries. She loved the book, and we both highly recommend it to you. [For those of you interested in this era, I would like to recommend the Felicity books in the American Girls series.]