The Secrets of Mary Bowser

I spy with my little eye, where the bird goes when he doesn't fly, Mama said one mid-day, her words floating on the Richmond heat as we carried empty cookpots through the yard to the kitchen. Mama, your little girl is all grown up, and still playing our best game. I am a spy... Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, this perfect reading-group novel follows a slave who is freed by her mistress' abolitionist daughter and sent North to be educated. Blessed with a photographic memory and possessing enough spirit to allow her fearlessly to involve herself in the Underground Railroad movement, she returns South on the eve of the Civil War and winds up as a spy in the house of Jefferson Davis...