Quicksmiths

A Guardian Booksellers' Book of the Year

Chosen by Science Museum Group for the Gadgeteers STEM Summer Reading Challenge

Selected for the Schools Love Reading program

When Kip Bramley receives a cryptic invitation, delivered by a beetle-shaped drone that appears to be breathing, his world changes forever. Soon he finds himself chasing riddles and solving puzzles set 400 years earlier by a mysterious genius. Kip, his new friends, and their furry sidekicks must stay one step ahead to find the Ark of Ideas. But dark forces are closing in and getting closer...

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This book is for you if you like: Big Hero 6; Mr. Lemoncello's Library; Gravity Falls; Escape Room; Wonderscape; A Wrinkle in Time; the Puzzled series; A City of Ember; Harry Potter; Artemis Fowl; Roblox inventing games.

Ten Riddles belongs on these bookshelves: clean fiction; science fantasy books for kids 8-12; diverse books for kids 8-12; action adventure books for girls and boys; STEM fiction for girls and boys; adventure suspense; middle grade fantasy; books for tweens; books for crossover listeners; books for reluctant listeners; books with plot twists; riddles for kids; puzzles for kids.