H.L. Dennis, Author
Series: Secret Breakers
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Publication date: October 4, 2012
Category: Crime & Mystery Fiction
ISBN: 9780340999622
The team of code-crackers face a new code that has never been solved. Brodie, Hunter and Tusia are back at Station X, the secret code-cracking station at Bletchley Park. And they are still wrestling with the great unanswered question: what secret lies behind the ancient, coded Voynich Manuscript? Their first adventure left them with a musical box that plays a tune by the composer, Elgar. Elgar loved codes.
At once they are off on a new search which takes them to the stories behind Elgar’s famous music and a coded letter he wrote to a young friend, Dorabella. The ‘Dorabella Cipher’ has never, ever been solved. Now our team of code-breakers are on a twisting trail via medieval book burnings in Florence, a mysterious boy known as the Orphan of the Flames, and a one-time famous prisoner in London’s Newgate Prison who wrote about King Arthur. Where is it all leading? And will they survive, when hot on their trail is a secret organisation that has always thwarted the search for Truth and is prepared to kill to stop them … The second story in this highly original puzzle-solving series – a Da Vinci Code for kids. The reader races along with the Secret Breakers team to break the code …
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Teachers’ resources and full reading guide available here: http://hldennis.com/docs/HDreadingguide.pdf
Helen Dennis was born in Brighton and loves living near the sea. She was a teacher for twenty years, and now writes full time – but enjoys making school visits, where she runs code-cracking and creative writing sessions.