Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Josephine Baker
BY
Deborah Lerme Goodman
Sing to the tune of freedom in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 16 possible endings!
You are Josephine Baker, a famous American entertainer living in Paris. It’s the second World War, and in an occupied France, you perform every night for adoring crowds. One day, an officer for the Allies approaches you, asking you to make the most critical decision of your life–are you willing to become a spy for the resistance and help defeat the Nazis? Will you be able to use your many talents to protect your friends and your beloved France, or will your daring adventures result in a bitter end?
Recommended by teachers and librarians for educational features including:
- Curriculum friendly! Downloadable teachers’ guide.
- Additional classroom materials available upon request.
- Learn about Josephine Baker, the jazz icon and real life spy whose tales of adventure and daring live on in the popular imagination.
- Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.
144
May 6, 2025
4-3/16 x 6-7/8
9781954232006
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deborah Lerme Goodman
When she was growing up, Deborah Lerme Goodman wanted to be a painter in a Parisian garret. That never happened, but other interesting things did. In addition to writing The Magic of the Unicorn, The Throne of Zeus, and The Trumpet of Terror, she has written one other book in the original Choose Your Own Adventure series, two children’s books for the Smithsonian Institution, and many magazine articles, mostly about textiles. She has directed community schools, led a mayor’s office, studied Chinese and lived in China, and finally got her dream job—teaching English to adult immigrants. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, John.
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