By Loris Owen (author) Part of the A Quicksmiths Adventure series
"Packed with puzzles and codes to crack, this fantastical adventure is a feast of fast-paced peril, invention and friendship."
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Adventurous, atmospheric, and driven by energetic dialogue, The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith concludes Loris Owen’s puzzle-packed trilogy in exhilarating style as Kip, Albert, Leela and Timmi courageously embark on an expedition to save the world from the grip of the Grittleshank Corporation.
This third thrilling quest sees the quartet harness all the skills they’ve honed at Quicksmith's College of Strange Energy to, essentially, save the world, with the stakes heightened by also having to rescue Kip’s mum from the clutches of the malicious Grittleshank Corporation. To that end, the adventure begins when they follow clues laid by Eartha Quicksmith, the college’s genius founder who, “like the Oracle at Delphi… always spoke in riddles, because the things she saw and the way in which she saw them, were not easily translated into ordinary language, into ordinary ideas”. As a result, it takes a bunch of extraordinary kids like Kip, Albert, Leela and Timmi to escape capture and outwit the increasingly dangerous enemy.
Visual, energetic, and attuned to 9+-year-olds who relish fantastical adventures and figuring things out, The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith , and the series as a whole, bridges the gap between fiction and scientific thinking.
In a fantastical, dangerous new quest, best friends Kip, Albert, Leela and Timmi must solve the riddles of renaissance genius and college founder Eartha Quicksmith to save the world from the evil Grittleshank Corporation once and for all.
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The journey sees the team follow Eartha's clues to a 'spaceship' which can travel through the earth's crust and into the transparent Smouldersphere in pursuit of their goal.
Captured by the mysterious Nexus organisation in the ice flows of the North they must use all their wit and skills to escape. But when Kip discovers his mum is a hostage of the Grittleshanks, can anything stop the Corporation's devastating raid on the world's energy, and his family?
With adventure, inventions, and a large helping of sideways thinking, this is an action-packed close to the trilogy, following The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith and The Myriad Mysteries of Eartha Quicksmith
Praise for the Eartha Quicksmith series:
?A mind-blowing, puzzle-packed, epic adventure!? - Kieran Larwood
?Inventive fantasy novel,? - The Observer Best Children?s Books of the Month
?One of the best children?s fantasy books I?ve read so far this year.? - Dan Walker
Loris Owen was born in Bolton and raised in Zimbabwe. She roamed the world in search of adventure before settling in the Midlands, where she can still be found exploring the canals, navigating mountains of post-it notes, and occasionally disappearing down a vortex of wordplay.
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In a fantastical, dangerous new quest, best friends Kip, Albert, Leela and Timmi must solve the riddles of renaissance genius and college founder Eartha Quicksmith to save the world from the evil Grittleshank Corporation once and for all. The journey sees the team follow Eartha's clues to a 'spaceship' which can travel through the earth's crust and into the transparent Smouldersphere in pursuit of their goal.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Adventure Stories, Science Fiction, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith was written by Loris Owen and published by Firefly Press
The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith has 361 pages
Yes it is part of A Quicksmiths Adventure series
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