The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith

LoveReading4Kids Says

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.

Reviewed by Joanne Owen
Joanne Owen is a writer, reviewer and workshop presenter whose lifelong love of books began when she was growing up in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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About The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith

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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