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Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A hands-on guide to introduce kids to the fascinating world of secret codes and ciphers, Code Cracking For Kids explores many aspects of cryptology, including famous people who used and invented codes and ciphers, such as Julius Caesar and Thomas Jefferson; codes used during wars, including the Enigma machine, whose cracking helped the Allies gather critical information on German intelligence in World War II; and work currently being done by the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric riddles, and puzzles encrypted with clues from the ancient past. Now the electrifying global adventure...
23) Fish
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Fish, seeking a way to help his family financially, becomes a reluctant cabin boy on a pirate ship, where he soon makes friends--and enemies--and is asked to help decipher clues that might lead to a legendary treasure.
24) Beyond the Grave
Author
Series
39 clues volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author Jude Watson takes Amy and Dan on a thrill-packed ride for the 4th installment of The 39 Clues series.Betrayed by their cousins, abandoned by their uncle, and with only the slimmest hint to guide them, fourteen-year old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, rush off to Egypt on the hunt for 39 Clues that lead to a source of unimaginable power. But when they arrive, Amy and Dan get something completely unexpected - a message...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the ways in which mathematics has been used in warfare, from navigation, mapping, and ballistics to the use and breaking of codes and cyphers, especially the World War II Engima system, logistics, and record-keeping.
26) The viper's nest
Author
Series
39 clues volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Amy and Dan Cahill trace the footsteps of a formidable military leader from the Cahill bloodline, they uncover a devastating secret about the family that changes everything.
Author
Series
Addison Cooke volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After twelve-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first.
28) Storm warning
Author
Series
39 clues volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Amy and Dan learn the truth about the Madrigals and Grace Cahill's alternate will, these discoveries lead to the revelation of a secret about their family and a showdown with the man in black who has been following them.
29) Mask
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Akiko, Mae, and Josie, also called the Infinity Trinity, spring into action after learning that a spy is betraying secrets to the Japanese military--and that Akiko's mother may be involved.--
30) A king's ransom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After seven members of their family are kidnapped by an organization called the Vespers, Dan and Amy Cahill must race against time to track down an ancient map to pay as ransom to bring the hostages home.
31) The medusa plot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Unable to return to their normal lives despite the end of the Clue hunt, new Madrigal leaders Amy and Dan anxiously prepare for a retaliatory strike by the Vespers, who kidnap a number of Cahill family members and demand that Amy and Dan steal a famous painting.
Author
Series
Riordan Rick volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue."Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Marie Curie to Harry Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them....
Author
Series
Eddie Red undercover volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Elusive art thief Lars Heinrich returns to New York City looking to settle a score. Super sleuth seventh-grader Edmund Xavier Lonrrot will need not only his photographic mind and artistic talents, but any skill he possesses with cracking codes as a string of the city's historical monuments become potential clues in what could become one of the greatest heists in history.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a rare coin and a strange code are uncovered in McKenna School, Malcolm and the other classroom pets of the Midnight Academy take on their most challenging assignment yet and, through their investigations, they just might save the school from closing.
Author
Series
39 clues. Cahill files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the first Vesper attack on Jan van Eyck's altarpiece at Ghent in the 1600s, then jumps to WWII and young Grace Cahill's desperate bid to save the masterwork from the Nazis.
36) The chaos code
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Matt and his new friend Robin search the globe to retrieve an ancient code--rumored to have brought down the ancient civilization of Atlantis--from the hands of a madman who is bent on destroying the modern world.
37) Rescue
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When seven members of his family were kidnapped by the Vespers thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill knew he was in for the fight of his life. He knew he was up against an impossibly powerful enemy. And Dan knew the odds were that some of his family members wouldn't make it. But even as Dan steels himself to accept these facts, the unthinkable happens. The Vespers capture a blameless bystander, Dan's best friend Atticus. With an innocent life on the line,...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1666, after four months away, friends Christopher Rowe, Tom, and Sally return to London triumphantly but, guided by coded riddles, face a conspiracy that threatens Christopher, as well as the king himself.
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