Cracking Time: A Middle-Grade Mystery Adventure of Lost Shipwrecks, Secret Codes, and High-Stakes Courage

By: Meyer, David

The internet is gone. The phones are locked away. The adventure is just beginning.

For readers who love City Spies, The 39 Clues, and high-stakes mystery adventures filled with puzzles, conspiracies, and dangerous secrets.

Andy Wagner's summer collapses the moment he walks straight into a river-because he was too busy watching videos to notice it was there. His parents have had enough. Their solution? Camp Digi-Detox, a strange program hidden inside a crumbling college dorm. Devices are banned, and kids spend their days transcribing dusty handwritten documents into a secret database.

Andy expects boredom. What he finds is a conspiracy.

When he and three other campers hatch a daring plan to reclaim their confiscated phones, they uncover something far bigger: a clue to the Bedlam, a legendary ship that vanished centuries ago while carrying a powerful artifact within its hull.

Ruthless enemies are closing in on the artifact. To stop them, Andy must unite a team of unlikely allies:

Dora, who spots patterns no one else seesTrish, whose acting skills make deception second natureFelix, a tech whiz itching to outsmart the system

If they can't crack the Bedlam's secrets in time, the artifact could rewrite history in ways that erase everything-including their very existence.

Cracking Time is the first book in The Uncrackables, a fast-paced mystery-adventure series packed with puzzles, danger, teamwork, and explosive discoveries-perfect for readers ages 8-14 who love solving secrets and uncovering the truth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1962128059
• ISBN13: 9781962128056
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Guerrilla Explorer Publishing
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7