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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
2) Trust no one
Author
Series
Cahills vs. Vespers volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Vespers have landed their most serious blow yet, one that strikes at the very heart of the Cahill family. Amy and Dan discover that there's a Vesper mole in their innermost circle. They need to smoke out the traitor before the next hostage dies.
Author
Series
39 clues. Cahills vs. Vespers volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Library ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
190 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Vespers have ordered Amy and Dan to find a map in Eastern Europe.
Author
Publisher
Odd Dot
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Communicate in a language only you and your friends can understand! Protect your diary from snooping siblings. Share your secrets with a BFF. Guard your texts from unwanted eyes. Create the lingua franca for your own fantastical secret world! Expert language creator David J. Peterson (inventor of languages for Game of Thrones, the Marvel Universe, and more) guides you as you create your own secret languages, codes, ciphers, and hidden messages. From...
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
231 p.
Language
English
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become code talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Hailey Gordon is looking to make some fast cash to help pay her tuition when she's caught counting cards at the Encore casino in Boston. She grabs her winnings and makes her escape. With guards closing in, she dives into an unlocked room to hide...only to find a dead body. Recently released from prison, Nick Patterson hasn't felt hope in a long time, but the job he "inherited" in prison promises to change that. He enters hotel room 633 to find that...
Author
Series
39 clues. Cahills vs. Vespers volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Library ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
222 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought the search for the thirty-nine clues leading to the source of their family's power was over, but when Cahills are kidnapped by the Vespers, Amy and Dan find themselves with only a few days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request before their friends start dying.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
351 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
From spy missions to code breaking, this richly illustrated account of the covert operations of World War II takes readers behind the battle lines and deep into the undercover war effort that changed the course of history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything--beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses--but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the world, in the form of 39 clues? What if you were given a choice - take a million dollars and walk away ... or get the first clue? If you're Amy and Dan Cahill, you take the clue - and begin a very dangerous race.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
""You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time....That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing out thick smoke-these young people had no idea what kind...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only recently recognized for her extraordinary contributions to the field.