Book
Making secret codes and messages / by Deanna Caswell.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781680725889
- ISBN: 1680725882
- ISBN: 9781680727425
- ISBN: 1680727427
- Physical Description: 24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Mankato, Minnesota : Black Rabbit Books, [2019]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | On a mission -- Secret messages -- Get in on the hi jinx. |
| Target Audience Note: | 500L Lexile Decoding demand: 58 (medium) Semantic demand: 92 (very high) Syntactic demand: 62 (high) Structure demand: 80 (high) Lexile |
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| Subject: | Cryptography > Juvenile literature. Ciphers > Juvenile literature. Languages, Secret > Juvenile literature. Cryptography. Ciphers. |
| Genre: | Juvenile works. |
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