Secret Missions: Four True Life Stories - Softcover

Levine, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590411837 ISBN 13: 9780590411837

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1988

Synopsis

Portrays the lives of four courageous individuals--Revolutionary War spy Lydia Darragh, underground railroad activists Alexander M. Ross and William Still, and Dutch Resistance movement nurse Leesha Bos.

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-6 During the American Revolution, Quaker Lydia Darragh, whose home was used for secret meetings by British General Howe, was able to get a message to Washington's headquarters and avert a British attack. In the mid-19th Century, Canadian Alexander Ross helped fugitive slaves escape; and American William Still, who hid runaway slaves, later published Underground Railroad, based on the notebooks he kept of the brave people whom he helped to freedom. Finally, Leesha Bos, a Dutch nurse, worked for the Resistance in the 1940s, saving hundreds of Jews from the Nazis. These stories of four true-life heroes who risked their lives for their beliefs are written with extreme simplicity and unaffected honesty. Levine's book is recommended for its all-too-rare portrayal of courageous men and women who faced danger and discomfort to defend their principles. Wendy Dellett, formerly at Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Library, Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0590411837
• ISBN 13: 9780590411837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116