Nurse, Soldier, Spy
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DESCRIPTION
This fast-paced, high-energy picture book tells the true
story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who at age nineteen disguised herself
as a man in order to fight in the Civil War. She took the name Frank
Thompson and joined a Michigan army regiment to battle the
Confederacy. Sarah excelled as a soldier and nurse on the
battlefield. Because of her heroism, she was asked to become a spy.
Her story comes to life through the signature illustrations and
design of John Hendrix and the exciting storytelling of Marissa
Moss.
AWARDS
Junior Library Guild Selection 2010
Amelia Bloomer Project’s Recommended Titles List
for 2012
Nominee for the 2012-2013 Great Lakes Great Book Award
CCBC Choices 2012 List
2012 International Reading Association Teachers’
Thoices Project
California Young Readers' Medal Nominee for 2012
Nominee for the 2014 Louisiana Readers Choice Award
Nominee for the 2014 New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award
REVIEWS
NY Times On-Line "Nurse, Soldier, Spy" tells the fascinating
story of another nonconformist, the cross-dressing Civil War hero
Sarah Emma Edmonds, who, under the name Frank Thompson, joined the
Union Army at age 19, becoming a battlefield nurse ("something only
men with the strongest stomachs did") and later a spy. Moss, best
known for her winning middle-grade series, Amelia’s
Notebook, is a lively prose writer, and Hendrix’s
illustrations inject humor into what is actually a serious, if
somewhat improbable, subject. Edmonds’s life story
(described in an 1865 memoir, "Unsexed; Or, the Female Soldier")
will appeal to a wide range of readers - girls hungry for heroines,
Civil War buffs, adventure story lovers. Read the whole review
here: New York times,
April 27, 2011
All images and text on this site are (c) Marissa Moss unless otherwise noted.
