Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Noor Inayat Khan

Author Rana Tahir
Illustrated by Laurence Peguy
Cover Design or Artwork by Mia Mari Overgaard
Leave a life of luxury to help defeat the Nazis in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 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.

YOU are the world's first Princess Spy and Britain's first Muslim war heroine, Noor Inayat Khan. You grew up in a life of luxury, but when World War II begins, your dreams of traveling the world and helping people are quickly changed. You leave your easy life of royalty behind to spy for the Resistance as a British secret agent. Did the lessons of your royal life prepare you for the realities of war? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

Recommended by teachers and librarians for educational features including:
  • Classroom materials available upon request.
  • Learn about Noor Inayat Khan, a British Resistance agent tasked with espionage in Axis-occupied countries who, despite giving her life to the resistance, is largely left out of the history books.
  • Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.
Rana Tahir is a Kundiman Fellow and author of two books. She is an educator with experience teaching middle school, high school, and undergraduate courses, and received her MFA from Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR. Born in Pakistan and raised on the beaches of Kuwait, she left home to study writing across the United States. When not at her desk preparing lesson plans, writing, or researching, she can be found jumping into lakes and rivers during long hikes, even though she always forgets a bathing suit and must sit in the car in her cold, wet clothes on the ride home. She is a Cancer sun and moon, so she never regrets being in water. She lives in Portland, OR with her husband and two cats.

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Leave a life of luxury to help defeat the Nazis in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 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.

YOU are the world's first Princess Spy and Britain's first Muslim war heroine, Noor Inayat Khan. You grew up in a life of luxury, but when World War II begins, your dreams of traveling the world and helping people are quickly changed. You leave your easy life of royalty behind to spy for the Resistance as a British secret agent. Did the lessons of your royal life prepare you for the realities of war? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

Recommended by teachers and librarians for educational features including:
  • Classroom materials available upon request.
  • Learn about Noor Inayat Khan, a British Resistance agent tasked with espionage in Axis-occupied countries who, despite giving her life to the resistance, is largely left out of the history books.
  • Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.

Author

Rana Tahir is a Kundiman Fellow and author of two books. She is an educator with experience teaching middle school, high school, and undergraduate courses, and received her MFA from Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR. Born in Pakistan and raised on the beaches of Kuwait, she left home to study writing across the United States. When not at her desk preparing lesson plans, writing, or researching, she can be found jumping into lakes and rivers during long hikes, even though she always forgets a bathing suit and must sit in the car in her cold, wet clothes on the ride home. She is a Cancer sun and moon, so she never regrets being in water. She lives in Portland, OR with her husband and two cats.

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