Product Details
Web ID: 20312136A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin, this middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mothers' disappearance. Remember, you are bound by the Secrets Act Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they're living inside one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World War II Britains eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley Park. As Jakob joins Bletchleys top minds to crack the Nazi's Enigma cipher, fourteen-year-old Lizzie embarks on a mission to solve the mysterious disappearance of their mother. The Battle of Britain rages and Hitler's invasion creeps closer. And at the same time, baffling messages and codes arrive on their doorstep while a menacing inspector lurks outside the gates of the Bletchley mansion. Are the messages truly for them, or are they a trap? Could the riddles of Enigma and their mother's disappearance be somehow connected? Jakob and Lizzie must find a way to work together as they race to decipher clues which unravel a shocking puzzle that presents the ultimate challenge How long must a secret be kept?
Product Features
- Ruta Sepetys (Author)
- Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
- Publication Date: 10-08-2024
- Page Count: 400
- Hardcover
- Age Range: 8-12 Years
- Picture Books
- 5.5 (w) x 8.5(h) x 1.5 (d)
- ISBN: 9780593527542
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