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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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Series Book 6 - Stranger Truths
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Across Mongolia's vast horse routes, Gabe follows stories of eagle hunters, seasonal gatherings, and people who read the sky with astonishing skill. Sarnai, quiet, dryly funny, and almost impossible to get lost beside, has little patience for visitors who think maps must always be drawn. A wind-shaped mystery leads the triplets toward a remembered route that exists only through movement, weather,
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Series Book 5 - Stranger Truths
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Series Book 4 - Stranger Truths
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Series Book 23 - Stranger Truths
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Series Book 17 - Stranger Truths
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Series Book 8 - Stranger Truths
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Under the northern lights of Finnish Lapland, Gabe investigates ice hotels, winter tourism, and the stories people tell about the sky writing back. Elle, observant and wonderfully unimpressed, warns the triplets that reflections can reveal what direct looking misses. Then Rafi sees a route moving inside polished ice. A reindeer-path mystery and a key visible only in reflection begin connecting
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