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Battle Boy #9
Spying on the Past : Battle Boy #9
The ninth and tenth titles in this gripping, dramatic and completely engrossing series – designed to engage reluctant readers (high interest, low-level reading), and anyone interested in battles, history, time travel, adventure, great stories, gadgets galore...
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
Agent's profile:
Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)
Real name: Napoleon Augustus Smythe
Age: 11 years old
Assignment: Operation Battle Book
Controller: Professor Juanita Perdu
Duty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)
Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgets
Mission directive: To spy on the past
Mission 9: White War
* Book no. 72: Christmas Day, 1914. The Western front, near the town of Ypres, Belgium.
* Mission objective: very unclear. There is something BIG that Professor Perdu is not telling Battle Boy. His mission begins knee-deep in mud, in the middle of No Man's Land, where he encounters the last person he is expecting to meet.
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
Agent's profile:
Code name: Battle Boy 005 (BB005)
Real name: Napoleon Augustus Smythe
Age: 11 years old
Assignment: Operation Battle Book
Controller: Professor Juanita Perdu
Duty: To operate as a Human Data-Collecting Device (HD-CD)
Survival gear: SimulSkin (high-tech, skin-coloured body armour), Battle Watch and assorted gadgets
Mission directive: To spy on the past
Mission 9: White War
* Book no. 72: Christmas Day, 1914. The Western front, near the town of Ypres, Belgium.
* Mission objective: very unclear. There is something BIG that Professor Perdu is not telling Battle Boy. His mission begins knee-deep in mud, in the middle of No Man's Land, where he encounters the last person he is expecting to meet.
96 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2010
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October 18, 2017
It was a good book
January 1, 2021
'White War' focuses on World War 1.
Battle Boy 005 - Napoleon Augustus Smythe is transported back to Christmas Day, 1914 for Mission 9 of his epic adventures. He is on the Western front, near the town of Ypres, Belgium. The mud, futility and horror of war is poignantly portrayed as BB005 swings into action as a messenger boy, discovers a very special true war story, and a link to his own family. Highly recommended reading for those who love ‘war’ stories.
Having read most of this series now, I couldn't recommend it highly enough for younger readers - upper primary, junior secondary.
Battle Boy 005 - Napoleon Augustus Smythe is transported back to Christmas Day, 1914 for Mission 9 of his epic adventures. He is on the Western front, near the town of Ypres, Belgium. The mud, futility and horror of war is poignantly portrayed as BB005 swings into action as a messenger boy, discovers a very special true war story, and a link to his own family. Highly recommended reading for those who love ‘war’ stories.
Having read most of this series now, I couldn't recommend it highly enough for younger readers - upper primary, junior secondary.
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March 25, 2019Battle Boy dose not know his objective-apart from the fact that he is spying in Christmas in word war I. But then he discovers his great grand father was involved!
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