The Bletchley Riddle

Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin

(Oneworld Publications) During the Second World War (1939-1945), a British country house and estate called Bletchley Park became a centre for code-breaking. There, mathematicians and scientists including Alan Turing worked in secret to crack codes, including the ciphers generated by the German “Enigma” machine. In this thrilling new historical mystery, we arrive at Bletchley in 1940, in the company of 14-year-old Lizzie, who has run away from the ship that’s supposed to be carrying her to safety in America. Instead, she has joined her brother Jakob – a mathematician working to crack the Enigma code. Soon, Lizzie is working as a messenger at Bletchley but she has a mission of her own: to find out the truth about what has happened to their mother, who is missing in Poland. WIN!…

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