Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards))

Janeczko, Paul B.

ISBN 10: 0763609714 / ISBN 13: 9780763609719

Published by Candlewick, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards))
• Publisher: Candlewick
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763609714
• ISBN 13: 9780763609719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: LaReau, Jenna
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Pssst! Inside these TOP SECRET files is everything sneaky young agents need to know about making-and breaking-their own secret codes.

Do you know the difference between a code and a cipher? Can you tell a St. Cyr slide from a Cardano grille? Did you know that a substitution cipher caused Mary Queen of Scots to lose her head? Don’t look now, but packed into this practical field guide is everything a young person needs to know about the art of concealment — making and breaking codes, mastering cipher systems, and experimenting with secret writing. Offering plenty of hands-on practice sessions, tips for creating a code-making kit, sidebars on secret codes in history, and an amusing pair of spies to illustrate techniques, Paul B. Janeczko’s tantalizing TOP SECRET won’t stay a secret for long.

About the Author

Paul B. Janeczko is a poet and teacher and has edited numerous anthologies for young people, including A POKE IN THE I: A COLLECTION OF CONCRETE POEMS; VERY BEST (ALMOST) FRIENDS: POEMS OF FRIENDSHIP; and SEEING THE BLUE BETWEEN: ADVICE AND INSPIRATION FOR YOUNG POETS. He is also the author of LOADS OF CODES and SECRET CIPHERS.

Jenna LaReau is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design in New York. TOP SECRET is her first book with Candlewick Press. She lives in Massachusetts, where she works as an illustrator and designer.