Alvin's Secret Code
by Clifford B. Hicks · first published 1963
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Twelve-year-old Alvin and his best friend Shoie use their knowledge of codes and ciphers to solve a dangerous mystery.
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Danny Dunn was great. Also, The Magical Flight to the Mushroom Planet and its first sequel. Read those to tatters. And the "Alvin" books (Alvin's Secret Code, The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald). Then I discovered Robert Heinlein's juveniles... Our little town's library had a checked-out-book limit of six, I think. One time I just couldn't decide,…
on “Mad Scientists' Club: The Books” ↗Do you remember the book? I remember loving Alvin's Secret Code, which was on the bookshelf in my fourth-grade classroom where I sat in the back to be near the bookshelf...
on ““This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”” ↗I remember reading about these in a book when I was a kid... _Alvin's Secret Code_ was the book I think? Always fascinated me!
on “The Beale ciphers” ↗