America's Famous Spies
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Designed to be fun and engaging for students or anyone with a love for history, these readers include a fascinating focus on important, influential, and visionary people, along with heroic animal escapades! From scientists to famous women to war heroes and more, there is something of interest for everyone in this exciting series!
This volume, America's Famous Spies, is recommended for Grade 6 and up and includes:
- Nathan Hale, Spy and Hero
- Lydia Darragh, Quaker Spy
- Washington's Spies, The Culper Ring
- Anna Strong, Petticoat Spy
- James Armistead Lafayette, Double Spy
- Belle Boyd, Teen-aged Spy
- Emma Edmonds, Nurse and Spy
- Dabney and Lucy Walker, Clothesline Spies
- The Ghost Army
- The Navajo Code Talkers
Each book can be read in any order and includes colorful and fun images. Definitions are included to help readers learn the new words they will discover. Read for enjoyment or as an extension of your history, science, or language arts curriculum.
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Marilyn Boyer is the descendant of a Revolutionary War soldier, and a daughter of a World War II veteran. She is the wife of an Air Force veteran, mother and home educator of fourteen sons and daughters, and grandmother of six. Deeply patriotic and passionate about America's Christian history, Marilyn has in For You They Signed brought to life the stories of the 56 noble men who pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to secure our freedom. Marilyn and her husband, Rick, were among the pioneers of the modern home education movement in the early 1980?s. Together they founded The Learning Parent ministry, have written over a dozen books, and travel around the country and abroad, speaking at home school and Christian parenting conferences to encourage, inspire and challenge the parents training the next generation of Americans. Their books have circulated around the globe and have been translated into several foreign languages.
