George Washington's Secret Six: The Spies Who Saved America - ADVISABLE

George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spies Who Saved America by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger, 164 pages.  NONFICTION Viking (Penguin), 2019.  $18.  

Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.  

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS – ADVISABLE  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

This book tells the story of six spies who helped George Washington gain the information he needed to outsmart the British Army during the Revolutionary War.  The book highlights the war stories that the spies were a part of and tries to give a background to those spies (at least as much information as can be found). There are also other spies mentioned, such as Benedict Arnold and Nathan Hale.  

This book is a fun look an intriguing part of United States history.  The men and one woman who were spies were fascinating to read about and easy to cheer on. The only reason I wouldn’t put it in elementary school, is the reader needs to have a decent understanding of the Revolutionary War to appreciate the bigger picture, but that said if you have a higher level reader, content wise there isn’t anything a 5^th or 6^th grader couldn’t read.  There are a lot of older pictures included and it is a fast read.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson.