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Series Book 1 - Stranger Truths
While visiting Mexico City with their journalist father, three siblings uncover clues to a hidden story beneath the canals of Xochimilco. Blending real history, family mystery, and adventure, this chapter book opens a globe-trotting series filled with hidden truths, teamwork, and wonder. ... Read more

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Stranger Truths #2: The Blue Bay Drums

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Series Book 2 - Stranger Truths
In Vieques, Gabe is chasing the science and stories behind one of the world's brightest bioluminescent bays. Iker, a fisherman's grandson who knows the mangroves and tides better than any visitor, warns the triplets that glowing water is beautiful - but never simple. Then a drumbeat crosses the dark bay where no drummer should be. The sound leads toward a forgotten warning route and a mystery ... Read more

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In Vieques, Gabe is chasing the science and stories behind one of the world's brightest bioluminescent bays. Iker, a fisherman's grandson who knows the mangroves and tides better than any visitor, warns the triplets that glowing water is beautiful - but never simple. Then a drumbeat crosses the dark bay where no drummer should be. The sound leads toward a forgotten warning route and a mystery
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Stranger Truths #3: The Clockmaker of Fez

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Series Book 3 - Stranger Truths
A vanished water-clock design draws Gabe and the triplets into the winding streets, workshops, and ancient learning traditions of Fez. Their skeptical new friend Youssef expects another outsider story about a brilliant invention - until Tala notices mathematical corrections hidden where the official explanation says nothing should be. As the mechanism begins revealing more than time, the children ... Read more

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A vanished water-clock design draws Gabe and the triplets into the winding streets, workshops, and ancient learning traditions of Fez. Their skeptical new friend Youssef expects another outsider story about a brilliant invention - until Tala notices mathematical corrections hidden where the official explanation says nothing should be. As the mechanism begins revealing more than time, the children
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Stranger Truths #5: The Stepwell Whisper

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Series Book 5 - Stranger Truths
In Gujarat, an underground song pulls the Santos da Costa family into the breathtaking geometry of a centuries-old stepwell. Gabe is investigating water engineering and the legend of a singer whose voice still travels beneath the stone. Jivika, clever, stubborn, and every bit as competitive as Tala, refuses to let visitors confuse beauty with understanding. When echoes begin aligning with carved ... Read more

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In Gujarat, an underground song pulls the Santos da Costa family into the breathtaking geometry of a centuries-old stepwell. Gabe is investigating water engineering and the legend of a singer whose voice still travels beneath the stone. Jivika, clever, stubborn, and every bit as competitive as Tala, refuses to let visitors confuse beauty with understanding. When echoes begin aligning with carved
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Stranger Truths #4: The Typhoon Lantern

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Series Book 4 - Stranger Truths
On the storm-tested islands of Batanes, Gabe is writing about extraordinary stone houses, survival craft, and generations of knowledge built against typhoons. Ayo, calm and practical even when the sky changes, teaches the triplets that warnings matter only when people are willing to listen. Then a lantern traces an evacuation path no modern map records. The route pulls Tala, Naya, and Rafi into a ... Read more

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On the storm-tested islands of Batanes, Gabe is writing about extraordinary stone houses, survival craft, and generations of knowledge built against typhoons. Ayo, calm and practical even when the sky changes, teaches the triplets that warnings matter only when people are willing to listen. Then a lantern traces an evacuation path no modern map records. The route pulls Tala, Naya, and Rafi into a
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Stranger Truths #22: The Breath Roads of Jeju

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Series Book 22 - Stranger Truths
On Jeju Island, Gabe investigates haenyeo diving traditions, volcanic coastlines, and the survival knowledge women have carried through breath, work, and community. Yuna is confident, funny, fiercely capable, and already responsible for more than the visitors first understand. A breath-timed Crossing leads toward women divers, shore-watch children, and message keepers whose coastal routes survived ... Read more

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Stranger Truths #21: The Knotted Sky Message

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Series Book 21 - Stranger Truths
High in Peru, Gabe follows quipu traditions, mountain relay routes, and records carried through knot, color, memory, and movement instead of alphabetic writing. Inti is funny, stubborn, and much more patient with mountains than with tourists who expect every pattern to explain itself. A runner-path Crossing reveals an urgent message whose meaning depends on who carries it, where it travels, and ... Read more

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Stranger Truths #19: The Kintsugi Workshop Secret

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Series Book 19 - Stranger Truths
In Kyoto, Gabe enters a restoration workshop where broken ceramics carry evidence of every hand that helped them survive. Ren is precise, quietly funny, and deeply unimpressed by anyone who confuses beauty with softness - or assumes gold is the most important part of a repair. The Crossing reveals that repaired objects may carry more than visible history. To follow the clues, the triplets must ... Read more

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In Kyoto, Gabe enters a restoration workshop where broken ceramics carry evidence of every hand that helped them survive. Ren is precise, quietly funny, and deeply unimpressed by anyone who confuses beauty with softness - or assumes gold is the most important part of a repair. The Crossing reveals that repaired objects may carry more than visible history. To follow the clues, the triplets must
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Series Book 17 - Stranger Truths
In Stone Town, Zanzibar, Gabe investigates legendary carved doors, trade histories, and the meanings built into thresholds and household design. Amina is sharp, funny, and determined that the triplets will not turn complicated history into an exotic adventure story. A doorway Crossing reveals a hidden route through maker marks, household labor, and port memories the public story never fully ... Read more

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In Stone Town, Zanzibar, Gabe investigates legendary carved doors, trade histories, and the meanings built into thresholds and household design. Amina is sharp, funny, and determined that the triplets will not turn complicated history into an exotic adventure story. A doorway Crossing reveals a hidden route through maker marks, household labor, and port memories the public story never fully
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Stranger Truths #15: The Lanterns Beneath Istanbul

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Series Book 15 - Stranger Truths
Beneath Istanbul's streets, Gabe follows stories of cisterns, hidden passages, layered empires, and objects that traveled below official routes. Deniz knows the underground spaces adults underestimate - and exactly how much trouble one lantern can cause when it lights a path no map admits exists. The triplets enter a city below the city, where stolen pages, private warnings, and corrected ... Read more

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Beneath Istanbul's streets, Gabe follows stories of cisterns, hidden passages, layered empires, and objects that traveled below official routes. Deniz knows the underground spaces adults underestimate - and exactly how much trouble one lantern can cause when it lights a path no map admits exists. The triplets enter a city below the city, where stolen pages, private warnings, and corrected
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Series Book 10 - Stranger Truths
Off the coast of Belize, Gabe investigates reef records, sinkholes, and a diver's claim that carved stones lie where no library should exist. Marisol knows the water, the research station, and exactly how quickly visitors become dangerous when they think every mystery is treasure. A reef Crossing reveals a record that can be read only through coral pattern, current, and breath. To understand it, ... Read more

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Series Book 9 - Stranger Truths
In a Guatemalan mountain village beneath a watchful volcano, Gabe joins families building enormous kites tied to memory, craft, and the people who came before. Ixchel is sharp, politically aware, and determined that the visitors understand one thing: beauty is not the same as decoration. When an old mask seems to open a witness-path, the triplets enter a mystery about names that were protected ... Read more

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