The PRIVATE WAR OF LILLIAN ADAMS

by Barbara Corcoran

When her favorite cousin leaves for Europe to fight in the Great War, patriotic Lil looks for spies in her hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts.

166 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 1989

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

This is not the Shark Tank celebrity, but an author of children's books. The books are mostly realistic fiction about older children and teens who come from families that are dysfunctional or at least face interesting challenges.

Also used the pseudonym Paige Dixon and Gail Hamilton.