Mysteries Messages: A History of Codes and Ciphers

By Gary Blackwood

History's amazing secrets and codes--and how to crack them yourself.

Here are encrypted notes of Spartan warriors, secret messages of the AMerican Revolution, spy books of the Civil War, and the Navajo code talkers. Reading thisi book is a "hands-on, interactive experience."

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Adam Canfield The Last Reporter

By Michael Winerip

A dirty school election, suspicious state test scores -- Adam Canfield and his middle-grade reporters are chasing some red-hot leads. there's only one problem, the school board has shut down the Slash for exposing the town's most powerful family. Now the staff must find a way to publish it themselves.

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