Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: James Armistead Lafayette

The year is 1781 and George Washington is commanding thousands of troops in Yorktown, Virginia, on the brink of the most important battle of the war. YOU are James Armistead, a brave and literate enslaved person in Virginia. Marquis de Lafayette, one of Washington’s key officers, approaches you with the most critical choice of your life: Do you join the Revolutionary army as a top secret spy or find freedom on your own terms? As a spy for the revolution, you might change the course of history, but whose liberty will you really be fighting for? 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 James Armistead Lafayette, whose efforts were instrumental in helping the revolutionary forces defeat the British, and yet whose story has been almost entirely left out of history books.
• Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.