Portion of title |
Never-before-told story of the most dangerous spy of World War II |
Contents |
Prologue -- Dindy -- Living with Cuthbert -- A chance meeting -- Facing the enemy -- Network of danger -- Marie the brave -- Exposed -- A pianist at last -- Mission impossible -- Hunted -- Infiltration -- Escape to Spain -- Burned -- Settling scores -- Betrayed -- To arms -- The village on the high plateau -- The Madonna of the mountains -- Leading -- The boat on the lake -- Survivors -- Home -- Behind the desk -- Epilogue: Remembered. |
Abstract |
The Gestapo is urgently chasing the person they have declared to be the "most dangerous spy" working for the Allies. But she keeps evading them ... This the never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, an American spy who changed the course of World War II. Born into a wealthy family in Baltimore, Maryland, from an early age Virginia knew she would never take the path that was expected of her. Instead, relying mostly on her wits and instincts, she would become the first Allied woman secret agent deployed behind enemy lines in France. And she did so despite having a prosthetic leg, which almost no one knew about. Virginia devoted herself to aiding the French Resistance during World War II, and she revolutionized what it meant to be a spy |
General note | "This is a young readers adaptation of an adult book titled "A woman of no importance" also by Sonia Purnell"--Publisher |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Interest age level |
Ages 10 and up |
Interest grade level |
Grades 4-6 |
Audience |
1150 Lexile |
Issued in other form | Online version: Purnell, Sonia. Agent most wanted. New York : Viking, 2022 9780593350560 |
Genre/form | Biographies. |
Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
Genre/form | Biographies. |
LCCN | 2022009011 |
ISBN | 9780593350546 (hardcover) |
ISBN | 0593350545 (hardcover) |
ISBN | (ebook) |