THE NIGHT FLYERS, Jones, Elizabeth McDavid ~~~$5.95 softcover

160 pgs. 1999 color illustrations.
Upper elementary, middle school. < i > AR 5.0 MG

Winner of Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery.

In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting un World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.

Curriculum Applications: Grades 3-9 Language Arts and Grades 4th and 8th Grade Social Studies.

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