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Codes, Kl00s, and Caches In Children's Books
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 		Codes, Kl00s, and Caches In Children's Books
So I work with elementary and middle schoolers, and am going to be running a week-long "Treasure Hunting" camp doing geocaching with a mixed group from 3rd to 7th grade. The format is going to be pretty loose, but I'm hoping to be able to tie in a literacy component and find a book to get the kids to read that uses some of the elements of mystery, code-breaking, clue-finding, and general other 'ARG-y' skills that I plan on making a part of their geocaching experience.

Some books I have had experience with:

- The 11th Hour - more of a picture book, but full of codes, clue-finding, and keeping that mind sharp!
- Blue Balliet's Chasing Vermeer, a kind of art heist mystery for the scamps.

I've done some reading on Cathy's Book, but I think it may above the reading level of our younger kids and not really in the interest category of our older kids (mostly boys, who would stand a good chance of armed revolt if word got out that I had them reading a 'supernatural romance').

What books have you seen that have gotten kids hunting, searching, cracking, and thinking?
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 		The Westing Game started me down that path when I was younger.

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 		OH MY GODDESS!!! THE WESTING GAME! I used to LOVE that book growing up!!! Although, due to it being an older book, some of the themes may be "too mature" for 3rd graders in these mollycoddling days.

I also had an Alfred Hitchcock Mysteries kids book {I'm sorry, I can't remember the name} that was full of {you guessed it} mysteries with clues that needed to be solved, with the answers written in the back.

Doing anything for a group with that vast of an age range is going to be tough in general as far as reading levels/interests. I wish you good luck! Smile
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 		Yeah, the age/reading gap is pretty huge... I'm considering doing a 'Training Box' and just making a collection of books of all sorts of levels.

Also: THE WESTING GAME WAS SO GOOD!

Anyone else read the Encyclopedia Brown books? I had a pretty serious collection of them. I know that they made a similar Clue Junior series.
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