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  • Spies of the Civil War: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

    Michael Burgan

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    The United States has been torn in half by the war between North and South. It is vital for an army to know what the enemy is doing―and perhaps spread false information as well. Spying is risky if you are caught. Still, it is worth it to help win the war. Will you: Become a member of the Pinkerton Detective Agency to spy for the North? Be a wealthy Southern woman spying for the Confederacy in Washington D.C.? Be a free black man traveling into the South to spy for the Union? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.
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  • Spies of the American Revolution: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

    Elizabeth Raum

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    Everyone has a secret. But in the war between the colonies and the king, keeping a secret is a dangerous thing. The first American spies belonged to secret societies and rebel organizations. The British collect information against these spies. Tension is mounting. Will you: Spy on the British in Boston at the start of the war? Gather information about George Washington for the British? Balance the dangerous life of a double agent? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.
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  • Spies of World War I: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

    Michael Burgan

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    The world's great powers have all been swept up in the first global war. Spying on the enemy can provide information that might be useful for your country’s war effort. The work is dangerous but exciting. Will you: Offer your services to the German intelligence agency as an English-speaking spy? Work as an Allied female spy in German-occupied Belgium? Be sent to Russia as a member of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.
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  • Stealing Nazi Secrets in World War II: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

    Elizabeth Raum

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    The Axis are a powerful force in World War II. Learning their secrets gives the Allies a chance to stop them. Will you: Fly the deadly skies to take pictures of German military sites? Share secrets that come over wireless communication from Nazi-occupied Paris? Steal information from the Japanese military as a secret agent? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.
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  • Spies of the American Revolution: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

    Elizabeth Raum

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    Everyone has a secret. But in the war between the colonies and the king, keeping a secret is a dangerous thing. The first American spies belonged to secret societies and rebel organizations. The British collect information against these spies. Tension is mounting. Will you: Spy on the British in Boston at the start of the war? Gather information about George Washington for the British? Balance the dangerous life of a double agent? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.
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  • International Space Station: An Interactive Space Exploration Adventure

    Allison Lassieur

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2016)
    We’ve sent a man to the moon, but…..can human beings live in space? A global team of engineers and scientists combined forces to design and create a space station so that we could find out. You’ve always been excited by the idea of space exploration. Space jobs can be difficult, or downright dangerous. Do you have what it takes to join the crew? You can be a systems engineer and design the robots, fly to the station as a shuttle astronaut, or even live on the completed station. Will you make the cut?
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  • Stealing Nazi Secrets in World War II: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

    Elizabeth Raum

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    The Axis are a powerful force in World War II. Learning their secrets gives the Allies a chance to stop them. Will you: Fly the deadly skies to take pictures of German military sites? Share secrets that come over wireless communication from Nazi-occupied Paris? Steal information from the Japanese military as a secret agent? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.
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  • Mars Exploration Rovers: An Interactive Space Exploration Adventure

    Stephen John Kortenkamp

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2016)
    Mars has been a source of fascination since H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds, a sci-fi fantasy of green-eyed Martians invading and overpowering Earth. In 1971, engineers succeeded in placing a spacecraft into Mars’s orbit with the idea of finding out what was on Mars: Intelligent life? Water? A place people on Earth could move if need be? Since then, a number of missions to Mars have been launched. Now is your chance to help launch the Mars Exploration Rover. Do you have what it takes to succeed?
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  • Spies of the Civil War: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

    Michael Burgan

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    The United States has been torn in half by the war between North and South. It is vital for an army to know what the enemy is doing―and perhaps spread false information as well. Spying is risky if you are caught. Still, it is worth it to help win the war. Will you: Become a member of the Pinkerton Detective Agency to spy for the North? Be a wealthy Southern woman spying for the Confederacy in Washington D.C.? Be a free black man traveling into the South to spy for the Union? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.
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  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing: An Interactive Space Exploration Adventure

    Thomas K. Adamson

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2016)
    You are an American in the 1960s. The United States and Soviet Union have been in a space race since the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957. Since then, the two superpowers have been fighting over which country will control the universe. President Kennedy begins a new space program, with a goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. You want to be a part of it. Can you help beat the Russians and help the United States land a man on the moon?
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  • Spies of World War I: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

    Michael Burgan

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    The world's great powers have all been swept up in the first global war. Spying on the enemy can provide information that might be useful for your country’s war effort. The work is dangerous but exciting. Will you: Offer your services to the German intelligence agency as an English-speaking spy? Work as an Allied female spy in German-occupied Belgium? Be sent to Russia as a member of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.
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  • You Choose: Spies

    Michael Burgan, Elizabeth Raum

    Paperback (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)
    Jump into the secret world of spies! Through different wars that have changed the course of history, YOU CHOOSE who to be, where to go, and what to do. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Will you even survive? It's up to you!
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