5 Best history books like Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II by Sonia Purnell

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Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A young readers adaptation of Sonia Purnell's New York Times bestselling book A Woman of No Importa…

If you liked the history plot in Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II by Sonia Purnell , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Death on the River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Amazon Adventure

By: Samantha Seiple

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"I did have a murderous trip down South, but it was mighty interesting." In October 1913, Theodore … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
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2. Nyxia (The Nyxia Triad, #1)

By: Scott Reintgen

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Emmett Atwater isn't just leaving Detroit; he's leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited … read more

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  • audiobook
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3. The Hired Girl

By: Laura Amy Schlitz

4.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Today Miss Chandler gave me this beautiful book. I vow that I will never forget her kindness to me,… read more

Similar categories in Laura Amy Schlitz's The Hired Girl book and Sonia Purnell's Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II

  • historical

4. The Book Jumper

By: Mechthild Gläser

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Amy Lennox doesn't know quite what to expect when she and her mother pick up and leave Germany for … read more

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5. The Watch That Ends the Night

By: Allan Wolf

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope--twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as we… read more

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6. Freewater

By: Amina Luqman-Dawson

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they … read more

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  • childrens
  • juvenile
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
"Lord only knows how many of us they keep from running. How many of us stay in these hateful places out of love. I used to think it was from scaring us - beating, cutting, or whipping us that did it. …"

-Amina Luqman-Dawson, Freewater

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7. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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8. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
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9. Long Lost

By: Jacqueline West

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to be … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
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10. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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11. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hung… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A young readers adaptation of Sonia Purnell's New York Times bestselling book A Woman of No Importa… read more

Similar categories in Sonia Purnell's Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II book and Sonia Purnell's Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
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13. Genesis Begins Again

By: Alicia D. Williams

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who is filled with self-loathing and must overcome in… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
"Right now, for me, it's only about winning"

-Alicia D. Williams, Genesis Begins Again

"Every family has some form of crazy, trust me."

-Alicia D. Williams, Genesis Begins Again

"When mama does my hair, she spills all the tea."

-Alicia D. Williams, Genesis Begins Again

"You've got your mama's smile. Never really noticed before."

-Alicia D. Williams, Genesis Begins Again

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14. Hummingbird

By: Natalie Lloyd

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
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15. The Secret Battle of Evan Pao

By: Wendy Wan-Long Shang

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Middle school can be a battlefield... From award-winning author Wendy Wan-Long Shang comes a poigna… read more

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  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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16. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

By: Pablo Cartaya

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like… read more

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  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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17. Sherwood

By: Meagan Spooner

3.70

Format: 496 pages, ebook

Fans of Danielle Paige, Marissa Meyer, and Alex Flinn will devour New York Times bestselling author… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"Such a deadly thing, a feather."

-Meagan Spooner, Sherwood

"But arrows are winged creatures."

-Meagan Spooner, Sherwood

"Who are you to say that being a lady, in itself, is not its own kind of war."

-Meagan Spooner, Sherwood

"Radical and insurgent and impatient. Those qualities sound more like you, my love."

-Meagan Spooner, Sherwood

Cover of Unlawful Orders: A Portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, and Activist (Scholastic Focus) by Barbara Binns

18. Unlawful Orders: A Portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, and Activist (Scholastic Focus)

By: Barbara Binns

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Binns presents the inspiring story of one man in his struggle for racial equality in the fi… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
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19. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong, #1)

By: Kwame Mbalia

4.18

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best frien… read more

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  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
"Can’t live your life with grief whispering in your ear, pulling you this way and that. But you can’t shove it in a drawer deep inside yourself, neither. Naw, you got to sit grief down and talk to it.…"

-Kwame Mbalia, Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong, #1)

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20. The Name She Gave Me

By: Betty Culley

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Three Things I Know Are True comes a new novel in verse, a deeply emot… read more

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  • middle grade
"Douglas is safe and Dad knew all along that I hid from Mom under the porch. He saved Douglas, but he never saved me. “And right there on the ground I decide I’m going to save anyone I can. It won’t m…"

-Betty Culley, The Name She Gave Me

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21. The Summer of June

By: Jamie Sumner

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one … read more

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  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile

15 must-read audiobook books like Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II by Sonia Purnell

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4.20

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4.18

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Nicholas Day

4.15

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4.50

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Ellen Emerson White

3.23

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4.20

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Kristiana Gregory

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