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Toliver’s Secret is a middle-grade historical fiction book published in 1976 by Esther Wood Brady.

Brady was born in 1906 and lived in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., during her lifetime. She worked in “public schools tutoring children with reading difficulties” (167), which bolstered her expertise in writing books suitable for young readers.

Brady wrote one other book called The Toad on Capitol Hill.

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Published in 1978, it is sometimes called A Wish on Capitol Hill. It follows an 11-year-old girl and her family caught up in the British march on General Washington in 1814.

Toliver’s Secret takes place in late 1776 in New York and New Jersey.

The main character, Ellen Toliver’s Grandfather, works as a Patriot spy, but he is injured and cannot smuggle an important message about the British Army’s movements out of New York into Elizabeth, New Jersey, just south of Newark.

Ten-year-old Ellen disguises herself as a boy to del