Books with puzzles and codes
I don't know how I fell down this rabbit hole, but I've been reading middle grade fiction and every one of them were mysteries that had some kind of code or puzzle. A happy coincidence apparently, because they were all good. The first one is called "Winterhouse" by Ben Guterson. It's about a girl named Elizabeth who comes home and finds that her guardians (her parents were killed when she was 4), her aunt and uncle have left to go on vacation. They've left her a train ticket and $3 and directions how to get to where she's going while they are on vacation. All of this seems a little suspicious to Elizabeth-her aunt and uncle haven't wanted to spend an extra penny in the entire time she's lived with them and now suddenly, they want to go on vacation and send her to a hotel? She can only imagine what kind of a terrible place it's going to be. But when she gets there, she's pleasantly surprised, no, stunned, to find that Winterhouse is ...