Details for 'The Bletchley Riddle' by Ruth Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

The Bletchley Riddle

by Ruth Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Recommended age: 10+
A fabulous, clever and mature story for young readers about the wartime efforts at Bletchley Park.
The Bletchley Riddle
by Ruth Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
My review:

It is the summer of 1940. The world is at war. Maths whizz Jakob Novis has been recruited to the secret codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park. As Jakob works to crack the Nazi’s Enigma cipher, his younger sister Lizzie is busy on an undercover mission of her own: to find their mother.

This is an action-packed adventure with plenty to keep the reader hooked and seeking to solve the puzzles, missing persons and mysteries all around. It is filled, too, with codes to decipher and explanations of systems to use to keep your communication a secret.

This book is aimed at readers 9-12 but it is a clever and sophisticated read, featuring adult and teenage protagonists, so it's for a mature young reader, I think. A great book. Loved the code-setting.

Date of my review November 2024
Book publication date: 10th October 2024