Codebreakers

by Deborah Chancellor

Jack and Harry love codes, and can't believe their luck when they find a mobile phone with a cryptic message on it. They set out to decode it, and it leads them into a kidnapping plot. Will they be able to stop the plan from going ahead?

73 pages, Paperback

First published March 20, 2009

About the author

Deborah Chancellor is a writer of fiction and non-fiction books for children. To date she has written nearly 100 books and worked with many leading publishers. Deborah is a versatile author who has written biographies for teenagers, adapted Bible stories for pre-school children, and teenage fiction for older children with reading difficulties. She is a prolific writer of children's non-fiction on a wide range of subjects.

She has been translated into many languages and is sold all over the world. Her books have been shortlisted for awards, such as the Little Rebels Award (Harriet Tubman, 2014) and Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (Being a Vegetarian, 2010).

Deborah is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and was RFL Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge University, from 2009-2012. She appears at Literary Festivals and runs writing workshops for young people.

Reviews

[Fredrik Ekman · Rating 2 out of 5]

For what it is - a juvenile book with some interesting factual content - this could have been a pretty good book. But the would-be criminals are so completely stupid that they are impossible to take seriously, and that pretty much ruins the plot for me.