The Night Flyers

by Elizabeth McDavid Jones

Book Overview

Pam and her father are experts in raising and training homing pigeons. When her birds start disappearing during the first World War, Pam suspects a mysterious stranger. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562477595
• ISBN13: 9781562477592
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

A definate 5 star book!

It's 1918 and Pam's dad is in the army for WW1 he gives Pam pigeons before he leaves to go to the war. She takes excellent care of them but when a mysterious man comes to her farm that talks like he's a German and he wants Pam's pigeons Pam believes that her dad's pigeons are in danger.I really enjoyed this book and I've read almost all of the history mysteries and this is one of the best ones there are!

Another High Flyer

Pam Lowder is a twelve-year-old girl with a special gift for handling animals. She and her father raise the best homing pigeons on the North Carolina coast. One reason they are the best is that her father has developed a way to train their birds to fly at night. But the year is 1918. Pam's father is a soldier in World War I and is far away in Europe. When a stranger with a foreign accent shows up in the area, some people suspect he is a spy. Pam becomes even more suspicious when the stranger offers her a lot of money for her pigeons and, after she refuses to sell, the birds start disappearing.This entry in the "history mystery" series won an award for best children's mystery of the year 2000. My daughter still likes "The Smuggler's Treasure" best of the six books that we have now completed in this series, but I can vouch for the fact that she has enjoyed them all. Like all the others, this one gives the young reader an appealing young heroine, an engaging story, and some solid historical background. All in all, a very good book for girls in the 9 to 12 age group. Highly recommended.

An award winner!

Not only is this the best history mystery in the series and one of the best children's mysteries that I have read, but this book also won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best juvenile mystery. It is the only book in the series that won an award and definitely deserves it. There is suspense in almost every page and you can't put it down! This is a mystery that everyone should join Pam in solving!

A stupendous book about a daring girl during World War 1.

I only read one of the "American Girl History Mysteries" and already I think this one is my favorite. The way it is written is so captivating and the plot is really neat. Sorry, but I can't tell you too much about this book or it will take away the surprise, so I will start you off like this..... It's about, Pam Lowder, an eleven year old girl, who is growing up in North Carolina with her mother, during World War 1. Pam owns a loft of homing pigeons, that was given to her by her father before he went off to war. The rare thing about these critters is they have the ability to fly through the night! Many people start to get suspicious when a man with a foreign accent comes to town. Could he be a spy sent by the enemy to plan some awful thing against the government? That's what Pam starts to think on Chap. 2. Yes, that quick in the book. It's a fast paced type of book, but it's not like some fast paced books that jump around from place to place and you don't know what's going on. No, this book sticks with what it's about, but fast in moving to get to the center of the situation--the truth. The book isn't only about that strange man, but what really makes Pam fight to get to the answer, is when her best pigeons start to disappear! Oh, I better stop before I tell you too much! Getting carried away there. Well I guess it's up to you, Pam, and Pam's animal friends to unlock the truth. Don't worry it wont be boring. It's jam packed with fun, mystery, and tons of excitement!

An exciting mystery set during World War I.

Twelve-year-old Pam lives in North Carolina in 1918. When a stranger with an accent arrives in town, Pam immediatley suspects he's up to no good - maybe he's even an enemy spy! With the help of her dog and her homing pigeons, Pam sets out to find the truth. Read this book to find out what happens!