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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide to codemaking, codebreaking, and their role in history, describing different types of codes and ciphers, discussing codebreaking and concealment techniques, and including brief stories about exciting moments in the history of the art.
7) In too deep
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 6
Language
English
Description
Amy and Dan cross the oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they're looking for. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever.
Author
Series
Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve mysteries that all involve some kind of code.
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 19
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Kiki and her friends learn about coding as they compete to be the escort for young narwhal who will visit Trident Academy with her famous parents. Includes glossary, key to the codes used, and information about safeguarding narwhals' habitats.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Cahills are the world's most powerful family, but their strength is being tested. A sinister man calling himself The Outcast has targeted the family and set them an impossible test. He's recreating four of history's worst disasters and challenging the young Cahills to find and stop the tragedies before it's too late. Now, with one disaster behind them, siblings Dan and Amy Cahill and their friends have just days to discover what the Outcast's...
16) Countdown
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The clock has run out for thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill. As head of the most powerful family the world has ever known, he and his older sister, Amy, have been in the crosshairs for too long. Dan and Amy have always managed to stay a step ahead of their enemies, but it was only a matter of time until luck failed them. Now Dan is hopelessly trapped and nothing can save him except unleashing an evil into the world even worse than the enemies closing in....
17) Breakaway
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dan Cahill and his sister Amy travel from the hottest to the coldest regions of the world in order to stop someone from using their own power against them.
Author
Publisher
Wayland
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explore the history of codes from The Haircut Code, used by the Persians to convey messages in war, to Ancient Hebrew ciphers, pictorial codes of the Egyptians Mayans to letter codes in ancient Rome and substitution ciphers used in Tudor England when the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots was being planned. Find out about modern-day codes, such as tennis players Laura Robson and Heather Watson's 'back slang' when playing doubles and computer codes...
19) Trust no one
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seven members of their family were kidnapped, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, got ready for the fight of their lives. But their enemy, a terrifying group known as the Vespers, remained frustratingly elusive. They stay in the shadows, picking off Cahills one by one. And now the Vespers have landed their most serious blow yet ? A blow that strikes at the very heart of the Cahill family. Because Amy and Dan discover that...
Author
Series
Code Busters Club volume 1
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Using their code-breaking skills, four middle-schoolers solve the mystery of the eccentric man who draws stick figures on his second-floor bedroom window.
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