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Sepetys, Ruta,

The Bletchley riddle / - 392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Remember, you are bound by the Official 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 of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World War II--Britain's eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley Park. As Jakob joins Bletchley's 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? --

ISBN: 9780593527542 0593527542

LCCN: bl2024026260

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Missing persons--Juvenile fiction.
Siblings--Juvenile fiction.
Code and cipher stories.
Mother and child--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)--Juvenile fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Romans.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.S47957 / Bl 2024

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]