"Can you imagine crossing enemy lines to deliver a secret message? Spying on your enemy from the attic of their hideout? Read all about kids just like you who risked their lives to be spies!" -- page 4 of cover.

Living a lie --The Carolina heroine: Emily Geiger, colonist spy, Revolutionary War, 1781 -- The Texas rat : Kit Benson, spy for General Sam Houston, Texas War of Independence, 1836 -- The newsboy: Charles Phillips, Union spy, Civil War, 1863-65 -- The rebel Joan of Arc: Belle Boyd, Confederate spy, Civil War, 1861-63 -- The boy martyr: David Dodd, Confederate spy, Civil War, 1863-64 -- The boy scout: Joe Leysin, Belgian spy catcher, World War I, 1914-18 -- The school girl: Marguerite Vourc'h, French spy, World War II, 1940-45 -- The peasant girl: Ingeborg Klein, German-born French spy, World War II, 1943-44 -- The hungry orphan: Choon Kyung Ko, spy for U.S. Military, Korean War, 1950-51.