Steve Sheinkin

En un mundo en guerra, no sabes en quién puedes confiar ni quién podría ser un agente secreto…Códigos, espías y misterios familiares en el corazón de Bletchley Park.Verano de 1940. Jakob y su hermana

Códigos, espías y secretos familiares en el corazón de Bletchley ParkVerano de 1940. El mundo está en guerra. En estos días, no sabes en quién puedes confiar ni quién podría ser un espía secreto... Jakob Novis, un genio de las matematicas, ha sido reclutado por el centro secreto de descifrado de codigos de Bletchley Park. Mientras Jakob trabaja para descifrar la maquina Enigma de los nazis, su hermana menor, Lizzie, esta ocupada en su propia mision encubierta: encontrar a su madre.

Angleterre, été 1940, veille du Blitz.Un lieu tenu secret : Bletchley Park. Un manoir en pleine campagne où sont rassemblés les plus brillants cerveaux de la Grande Bretagne pour déchiffrer le code d

A thrilling middle grade historical adventure from bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin**Shortlisted for the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction 2025**Remember, you are bound by the official secrets act... It is the summer of 1940. The world is at war. These days, you dont know who you can trust or who might be a secret spy Maths whizz Jakob Novis has been recruited to the secret codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park. As Jakob works to crack the Nazis Enigma cipher, his younger sister Lizzie is busy on an undercover mission of her own: to find their mother. Filled with codes to decipher and mysteries to unravel, this is the unputdownable historical adventure that will have you on the edge of your seats.A thrilling World War II code-breaking adventure filled with ciphers, secrets, and spies. Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of RefugeeExquisite historical storytelling! I only wish I could read it again for the very first time. Jennifer A. Nielsen, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Iceberg

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling mystery and collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin! This historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mothers disappearance."Break out your Enigma machines! Sepetys and Sheinkin have written a thrilling World War II code-breaking adventure filled with ciphers, secrets, and spies."Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of RefugeeRemember, you are bound by the Official Secrets ActSummer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister, Lizzie, share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now theyre living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amid one of the greatest secrets of World War IIBritains eccentric codebreaking factory at Bletchley Park. As Jakob joins Bletchleys top minds to crack the Nazis Enigma cipher, fourteen-year-old Lizzie embarks on a mission to solve the mysterious disappearance of their mother.The Battle of Britain rages and Hitlers invasion creeps closer. And at the same time, baffling messages and codes arrive on their doorstep while a menacing inspector lurks outside the gates of the Bletchley mansion. Are the messages truly for them, or are they a trap? Could the riddles of Enigma and their mothers disappearance be somehow connected? Jakob and Lizzie must find a way to work together as they race to decipher clues that unravel a shocking puzzle that presents the ultimate challenge: How long must a secret be kept?

In this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century Crypto-Jew burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition.When young Rolando Perez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, the mysteries immediately begin to accumulate. Was he pushed or did he jump? What might Rolando have been so desperate to protect that he would sacrifice himself? And what does a colorful concha pastry have to do with any of this?In the midst of the investigation, Professor Ilan Stavans arrives in Santa Fe to give a lecture about the areas long-buried Jewish history. Hes looking forward to relaxing afterward with an evening at the opera, but his presentation on crypto-Jews attracts unexpected attention, and soon Ilan is drawn into a desperate race to find the long-lost documents that might hold the key to Rolandos death. His amateur sleuthing leads him to taco joints, desert ranches, soaring cathedrals, and, finally, deep into the regions past, where he encounters Luis de Carvajal, also called El Iluminado. In a sixteenth-century tale of martyrdom that eerily echoes Rolandos, Carvajal fled Spain for colonial Mexico at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, searching for his religious heritagea hunt for which he, like Rolando, would pay the ultimate price.In El Iluminado, esteemed literary critic Ilan Stavans and author and illustrator Steve Sheinkin present a secret history of religion in the Americas, showing how thousands of European refugees have left a trail of ghostly footprintsand troves of mysteriesacross the American Southwest. This paperback edition includes a new afterword recounting the amazing events that occurred after the original publication, including the real-life discovery of the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal and its restoration to Mexico.