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Author Janeczko, Paul B.

Title Top secret : a handbook of codes, ciphers, and secret writing / Paul B. Janeczko ; illustrated by Jenna LaReau.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Teen  TEEN 652 JANECZKO    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J652.8 JAN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J 652.8 JANECZKO    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department  J652 JAN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 652 JAN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 652.8 JANECZKO    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J 652.8 JANECZKO    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Juvenile Nonfiction  J 652.8 JANECZKO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J652.8 JAN    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J FUN & GAMES 652.8 JAN    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 136 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 129) and index.
Contents Nonsecret codes -- Book code -- Dictionary code -- Codetalking -- Pig Latin -- Turkish Irish -- Caesar cipher -- St. Cyr slide -- Keyboard cipher -- Morse code -- Semaphore -- Pigpen cipher -- Rosicrucian cipher -- Date shift cipher -- Greek square cipher -- Greek skytale -- Rail fence cipher -- Route transposition cipher -- Codebreaking -- Early concealment techniques -- Null cipher -- Cardano grille -- Word grille -- Space code -- Playing card code -- Dot cipher -- Line cipher -- Zigzag cipher -- Invisible inks -- Codemkers and codebreakers Hall fo Fame.
Nonsecret codes -- book code -- dictionary code -- Codetalking -- Pig Latin -- Turkish Irish -- Caesar cipher -- St. Cyr slide -- Keyboard cipher -- Morse code -- Semaphore -- Pigpen cipher -- Rosicrucian cipher -- Date shift cipher -- Greek square cipher -- Greek skytale -- Rail fence cipher -- Route transposition cipher -- Codebreaking -- Early concealment techniques -- Null cipher -- Cardano grille -- Word grille -- Space code -- Playing card code -- Dot cipher -- Line cipher -- Zigzag cipher -- Invisible inks.
Summary A handbook for the budding cryptographer including codes and ciphers, invisible inks, concealment techniques, spy stories and some history.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Study Program Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.4 5.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.3 3.0 74915.
Subject Cryptography -- Juvenile literature.
Ciphers -- Juvenile literature.
Cryptography.
Ciphers.
Added Author LaReau, Jenna, illustrator.
ISBN 0763609714 alkaline paper $16.99
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