Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mary Bowser

Fight against Confederate forces in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

YOU are a brave and fearless woman. You can ride standing on the back of a horse while shooting a bow and arrow. You never go anywhere without your sword. But your best skill of all is your ability to disguise yourself. Will YOU infiltrate the Confederate White House, posing as a servant, and gather information for the Union? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

Recommended by teachers and librarians for educational features including:

• Classroom materials available upon request.
• Learn about Mary Bowser, a Union spy who was born an enslaved woman and ended up spying in the Confederate White House during the Civil War.
• Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.