Capture The Night Flyers (American Girl History Mysteries, #3) Compiled By Elizabeth McDavid Jones Script

fun little mystery, with a few historical details, It's not a big winner for me because of some of the deception and attitudes, and yet usually the mother did try to correct her daughter, so you can look at it in various ways.
It was a nice way to pass the time when I was recovering from sickness, This was an excellent history mystery by Elizabeth McDavid Jones, I remember distinctly not liking one of her books, so I was hesitant to read this one, but it was very good! I would love to read more of her books to see if I like them!
This story is about Pam Lowder, a young girl who has an excellent talent with training animals.
She and her Papa have trained some of the best pigeons in the country, But when her Papa goes off to fight in the Great War, Pam is left to take care of the pigeons by herself, Eventually you find that an interesting new stranger has arrived in Pam's small, seemingly insignificant town, He has a foreign accent and his behavior is relatively strange to everyone in the town, He is very secretive and unusual, The townsfolk are sure that he is a German spy, What startles Pam is that he is extremely interested in her Papa's pigeons, which she refuses to sell to him, even for a shocking offer of two hundred dollars.
Around the time that she refuses to sell the birds, they start to go missing, Pam is sure that the foreigner is connected with the missing birds, and she is willing to spy on HIM to find out the truth,
This book won an award for children's best mystery, and I can honestly say that I can see why, This is one of those mysteries that makes sense when you look back at the plot after you've read the book, I loved reading it, and devoured the book in two days! Childhood favorite love hearing and learning about homing pigeons! Very good story, Our first World War I read aloud for history, A good mystery for young ears, These suspenseful stories will leave readers on the edge of their seats! Each spinetingling tale features a brave, clever girl solving an intriguing mystery at an important time in America's past.

When Pam's homing pigeons disappear while her father's away fighting in World War I, she uncovers evidence of an enemy spy, This book is good it tells you that things aren't always like they seem, Also tells you that the people you don't like sometimes aren't all that bad, Just one of the many reasons I like to read books for young adults is explained in
detail at sitelink theguardian. com/childrens .

And I quote from their website which is very well written,
"Its not a secret that books written for children, teens and young adults YAs often sell far more copies than even the most popular adult reads.
Although a relatively new market, having only really fully developed over the pastyears, the childrens book industry has grown astronomically to become worth millions of pounds worldwide, with authors such as JK Rowling, Suzanne Collins, Michael Morpurgo, John Green, and Jacqueline Wilson quickly becoming household favourites.


Perhaps one of the most important things to note about the teen and YA market in particular, though, is that the majority of its readers, according to astudy are actually adults.
Yes, you read that right: adults,

Once upon a time it would have been shameful for adults to read books written for teenagers, never mind admitting that publicly, but nowadays it has become so common that many have even taken to blogging to discuss and review what they have read.
At YA events such as book signings and author talks, a staggering number of attendees are agedor over showing that the prior societal damnation of adults reading books for young people is no more.


Perhaps the real mystery, then, is not why the works of the authors above have been so successful commercially its because theyre amazing books, but why they, and other books like them, have appealed to so many people beyond their target audience.
This in itself creates a submystery, too: why do these books remain popular years after they are first published, and what is it about our current society and world that means that their messages and values are still applicable to us" I will never be able to get over how American Girl made such an impact on the historical fiction for young girls genre.
I truly believe that they are one of the biggest reasons why I became such a history lover and why, to this day, historical fiction remains one of my preferred genres.


But anyway, enough rambling,

This was a great story that I read in an afternoon, I remember reading it when I was younger and enjoying it, and reading it as an adult, I still very much enjoyed it, Jones has a way of driving the story forward with a mystery that even as an adult, I wasn't able to solve, I grew fond of Pam, and I appreciated how her story offered a glimpse into the time period, Plus, I liked how that "glimpse" was historically accurate and how it tied into the historical text at the end, Not to mention that Jones' writing was beautifully descriptiveI mean, I was there with Pam in the woods and in the swamp,

Overall, I really enjoyed this one, I'd recommend this one if you are looking for a great historical fiction for the young reader in your life, . . or if you are a young reader yourself! I think that somewhere along the line, American Girl has sidetracked from what they originally set out to do as the Pleasant Company it used to be about making American history interesting, making any girl feel that she could have been apart of it.
Now, what are the goals Just selling dolls and clothes, I say that because, AG never needed to market dolls with this series, These books stood on their own, they were well done, and a tasteful way of introducing young girls into a more 'grown up' genre, while still educating and giving a sense of historical interest and accuracy.
I'm still enjoying how well written this series is, and touching some history that I'd forgotten I'd learned, And I'm not slamming AG for their dolls, because of course, I dreamed about having my own Felicity doll to enjoy reading the books with and so I grew up and became a collector of AG dolls, lol, but in the new catalogs and websites, it feels only about selling dolls in trendy clothes.
The sense of history and teaching girl history has been lost along the wayside, and I'm sorry for that, The nowdefunct History Mysteries were each oneoff stories, set in different times and places in American history, They're a little longer and aimed a little higher than the main American Girl books, The Night Flyers is set in World War I era North Carolina, This particular plucky girl detective sets out to discover who's stealing her birds and if the new man in town with a strange accent is a German spy.
There's actually quite a bit going on here, but it all ties together fairly well in the end, This was a cute and informative mystery, I liked the pigeons and how well the leading gal worked with them, I didnt know about this angle to WWI, so I was glad to learn about it, I might just have to research more about it now,

Content: two profane words, replacement expletives, smoking including underage smoking
These AG History Mysteries are a lot of fun, They are about standalone characters but teach kids about a piece of history not covered by the main AG characters, The mysteries are not gruesome no murder, but suspenseful enough to keep the readers interest, This one was quite well written with beautiful prose and realistic regional dialogue,

Enjoyed reading it with myyearold daughter, Part of the America Girl History Mystery series enjoyable and educational with a spunky and snarky main character, Excellent intro to pigeons and how the helped the war effort, Good book for all ages, School library. The kids fight, hate, disobey, lie, etc, but the historical value outweighs the bad, in my opinion, It passes.
but I'm really tired of American Girl, Maybe it has something to do with my girls being so enchanted I really liked this book because it's two of my favorite genres: mystery and historical fiction.
It follows a girl named Pam who lives during WWI and takes care of her dad's homing pigeons, She soon finds out an enemy spy is trying to use those pigeons and she has to find out who and stop them, The mystery wasn't my favorite, but I still really enjoyed the story, Would recommend this. This was my first American Girl History Mystery, I think it was very well done for middle graders, There was just enough suspense and mystery to get you worried, but not freaked out, Captures life on the WWI home front in rural America fear of the enemy, loss of family members serving overseas, sacrifices made by those left behind.
Great highlight of a littleknown aspect about how messenger pigeons were used in the war, Enjoyable read. I think the story had the potential to be more interesting but setting it a month before the end of the war WWI in this case made the stakes seem much lower.
It was pretty easy to tell that the person Pam was convinced was the culprit wasnt it, but the revelation of the true culprit keeps you guessing.
Yes, this is another of my collection of books acquired from teachingth grade, And yes, it's an American Girl book, But soooo good for a quick little read! Loved it, History, regional culture, and a cool little mystery and a heroine that anyone could identify with, Good story that I cannot wait to pass onto to one of my nieces! I also liked that the approach didn't make Pam perfect and addressed some of the issues of the time and place like poverty and discrimination.
And Greta mystery and great read! I love AG books becuase they introduce you to things you'd never think would be interesting or even think of.
This wasn't a super mysterious mystery, but I did like it, Learned a lot. Elizabeth McDavid Jones was born inin South Carolina, When she was a child, she moved in Raleigh, North Carolina, She graduated from East Carolina University and started a career in social work, When Jones earned a masters degree in literature in, she changed her career to a university literature, During this period, she began writing childrens books, She is a mother of four children, She is the author of nine books and many magazine and serial stories for young people, Her books have sold over,copies, She is particularly known for her work writing with American Girl, Elizabeth McDavid Jones was born inin South Carolina, When she was a child, she moved in Raleigh, North Carolina, She graduated from East Carolina University and started a career in social work, When Jones earned a master's degree in literature in, she changed her career to a university literature, During this period, she began writing children's books, She is a mother of four children, She is the author of nine books and many magazine and serial stories for young people, Her books have sold over,copies, She is particularly known for her work writing with American Girl, sitelink.