num_pages: 293
description: Cracking the code isn't all it's cracked up to be in this scavenger hunt adventure from a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author.Chester Keene takes great comfort in his routines. Afterschool Monday to Thursday is bowling and Friday the best of days is laser tag! But besides Friday laser tag Chester has one other very special thinghe gets secret spy messages from his dad who must be on covert government assignments which is why Chester has never met him. Then one day at lunch Chesters classmate Skye approaches him with a clue. Theyve been tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission. Chester takes their assignments very seriously but Skye treats it like a big game. Skye proves to be a useful partner and good company even if her haphazard free-wheeling ways are disruptive to Chesters carefully curated schedule. As Chester and Skye get closer to their final clue they discover the key to their spy assignment: they have to stop a heist! But cracking this code may mean finding out things are not always what they seem.
language: English
title: Chester Keene Cracks the Code
publisher: Wendy Lamb Books