Twelve-year-old Stick Lawson and her best friends Rain and Neb – the Dime Novel Kids – live on Hatteras Island where life moves steady as the tides. As wannabe detectives, they long for a paying case and a prime assignment from the FBI. As the strangest kids on Hatteras Island, they crave the respect that comes with solving a huge mystery.
But the FBI isn't writing back. Suspicious newcomers have come ashore. And now, Nazi U-boats are torpedoing US ships just offshore – and no help is coming.
Inspired by the real-life Nazi U-boat attacks off North Carolina's Outer Banks in World War II, Island of Spies brings the Dime Novel Kids more mysteries than they ever wished for. To solve them, they have to risk more than they ever imagined.
Island of Spies
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What people are saying...
“The Dime Novel Kids are spunky, spirited, smart, sassy – and so is Sheila Turnage's writing. It sizzles and sparkles.” – Lauren Wolk, author of the Newbery Honor Book Wolf Hollow
“Stick and the Dime Novel Kids jump off the page and straight into your heart...” – Kimberly Willis Holk, author of the National Book Award Winner When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
“Turnage takes a little-known piece of American history and sets it solidly among realistic characters and an entertaining saga of island life.” —Kirkus