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

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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? Dont 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. Janeczkos tantalizing TOP SECRET wont stay a secret for long.