The Number of Books:1

Pgs:128 / Paperback

Author: Tahany Bahloul

Publisher: Dream Forward Books

(Middle Grade, ages 9 -13)

Blurb:There's a thief loose in al-Baawete, Egypt.Thirteen-year-old ‘Arif Bassam, al-Baawete’s best codebreaker, teams up with Detective Ghaabee, al-Baawete’s most incompetent detective, to try to decode the secret messages the thief delivers to the police before he commits his daring crimes. But the thief uses a constantly changing cipher, and if ‘Arif can’t decode his messages in time, al-Baawete will become the shame of Misr. Can 'Arif decode and defeat the thief or are some codes too tough for even him to crack?