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from Kate’s Harper News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Kids Books: Endgame: The Calling \u2013 James\u00a0Frey<\/h1>\n

\"\"Folks in the kids department have spent a long time getting ready for this juggernaut from James Frey (of I am Number Four <\/em>fame) and his co-writer is Nils Johnson-Shelton, author of several bestselling children\u2019s series.<\/p>\n

Inspired in part by the 1987 megahit Masquerade, <\/em>this inaugural book in a dystopian adventure series incorporates an elaborate puzzle for which Frey has brought on professional cryptographers.<\/p>\n

The puzzle invites readers into Endgame in a very real way: like Masquerade, <\/em>there\u2019s actual gold\u2014in this case bullion worth \u201chundreds of thousands of dollars\u201d\u2013 for the reader who solves the puzzle at the heart of Endgame.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Frey explaining the project:<\/p>\n