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Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari

Part of Choose Your Own Adventure Spies

Author Katherine Factor
Illustrated by Chloe Niclas
Cover Design or Artwork by Gabriel Moreno
Paperback
$7.99 US
Choose Your Own Adventure
4.19"W x 6.88"H x 0.37"D   | 3 oz | 100 per carton
On sale May 01, 2019 | 144 Pages | 9781937133320
Age 9-12 years | Grades 4-7
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Dance in the face of danger in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 23 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

The year is 1915, and YOU are young Margaretha Zelle, a world-famous dancer from the Netherlands who was best known by her stage name, "Mata Hari." You have just arrived in Bali, Indonesia, with your dance troupe when your best friend Althea goes missing. As a master of tongues and disguises, who better to save her? Your trek through the mysterious Balinese jungle might lead you to a top secret spy school, but if you leave now, you will miss your chance to audition for the performance of a lifetime. Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

Recommended by teachers and librarians for educational features including:
  • Curriculum friendly! Downloadable teachers’ guide.
  • Additional classroom materials available upon request.
  • Learn about Mata Hari, who was more than a dancer and spy—she was an intelligent and courageous feminist, a resourceful survivor, and an adventurous spirit who lived dangerously.
  • Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.
Katherine Factor is a writer, editor, and educator. She has held positions as the Poet-in-Residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy and as the assistant editor of inter|rupture, a journal of poetry and art. She is a recipient of an Iowa Arts Council grant, an Augustana teaching fellowship, and a Squaw Valley Community of Writers scholarship. Her poems and audio work can be found in print and online at Interim, The Conversant, Quarterly West, Poets for Living Waters,The Equalizer, DIAGRAM, the Colorado Review, Coldfront s Poets off Poetry, and WFMU. Awe, art, travel, and ancient culture inspire her work a likely outcome of avidly reading Choose Your Own Adventure books as a child.
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Educator Guide for Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

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Dance in the face of danger in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 23 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

The year is 1915, and YOU are young Margaretha Zelle, a world-famous dancer from the Netherlands who was best known by her stage name, "Mata Hari." You have just arrived in Bali, Indonesia, with your dance troupe when your best friend Althea goes missing. As a master of tongues and disguises, who better to save her? Your trek through the mysterious Balinese jungle might lead you to a top secret spy school, but if you leave now, you will miss your chance to audition for the performance of a lifetime. Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

Recommended by teachers and librarians for educational features including:
  • Curriculum friendly! Downloadable teachers’ guide.
  • Additional classroom materials available upon request.
  • Learn about Mata Hari, who was more than a dancer and spy—she was an intelligent and courageous feminist, a resourceful survivor, and an adventurous spirit who lived dangerously.
  • Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.

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Katherine Factor is a writer, editor, and educator. She has held positions as the Poet-in-Residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy and as the assistant editor of inter|rupture, a journal of poetry and art. She is a recipient of an Iowa Arts Council grant, an Augustana teaching fellowship, and a Squaw Valley Community of Writers scholarship. Her poems and audio work can be found in print and online at Interim, The Conversant, Quarterly West, Poets for Living Waters,The Equalizer, DIAGRAM, the Colorado Review, Coldfront s Poets off Poetry, and WFMU. Awe, art, travel, and ancient culture inspire her work a likely outcome of avidly reading Choose Your Own Adventure books as a child.
Katherine Factor View titles by Katherine Factor
Chloe Niclas View titles by Chloe Niclas

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Educator Guide for Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

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