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Megan Frazer Blakemore

My visage high above your city,Shines like gold, but half as pretty.Arms I’ve none, but hands I’ve two:Mondo, mini, black not blue.Climb my stairs and have no fears, All that threatens are my gears.Tucked beneath the mightly wheel,An envelpe shall truth reveal.

city, clock, clue, envelope, gears, riddle, truth

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Ephraim found a stack of postcards tied together with a faded green ribbon. He shuffled through them and found they were from every World’s Fair from 1915 in San Francisco to 1939 in New York. None of the postcards hed been written on or mailed.

collections, new-york, past, postcards, san-francisco, world-s-fair

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Ephraim lifted the top of the trunk. Neatly stacked were mementoes from what seemed like hundreds of journeys. Right on top was an etching of the Eiffel tower next to an African mask that looked at him with surprised eyes. He reached in a little deeper and unearthed a small teapot decorated with blue drawings just like the kind his grandmother collected and kept in a locked china cabinet.

china, etching, journeys, mask, mementoes, memories, past, teapot

Megan Frazer Blakemore

circle back, you’re nearly through.The next one, then just one more clue. Summer’s coming, dark and drear,Soon those tourists will appear.In the word hoard you will findBooks with numbers on the spines.A 2 a 9 a 2 again-Not too easy for Athena’s friend.

athena, clue, riddle, summer

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Add Snow White and her seven dwarfs,2 droids for Luke Skywalker, of course.1 true ring to rule them all. A decimal is a place to stall.Snow White’s gone, the dwarfs alone.This system your next clue has shown.Now you might ask, this little key, Just what does it mean for me?Hold on tight and you will see, Someday it will set clues free.

clues, dwarfs, key, mathematics, mea, snow-white

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Don’t you love those crazy Brits?Jumpers for sweaters and spots for zits.And when they want to change their suits,It’s in a box, not a booth.Be a hero, make a call.Steepest streets might make you fall.

british, hero, riddle, street

Megan Frazer Blakemore

No mountain of doom, Just foothills of Ferninand.Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.

clue, fire, glory, mountain, riddle, tower

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.

art, literature

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Mr. Douglas told us true.He knows why the sky is blue.Why the earth spins round and round,And where the next clue can be found.Ask him, maybe, will he tell you?His radio, those ads will sell you.Peppy song will make you wonder,If the world is going under.Bring him something from the doctor–Nothing spicy-while he proctors.It may be those fizzy bubbles, Let him help you with your troubles.

clue, doctor, dr-pepper, riddle, science, world

Megan Frazer Blakemore

His gaze glossed over a stack of wooden crates and landed on a steamer trunk that was covered with stickers from all over the world.

stamps, steamer-trunk, stickers, world

Megan Frazer Blakemore

The Planeswalker knowYOu take the card from the libraryAnd bury it when you’re done.On the path, you face history.Walk the path, do the math:Start with the prime numbers under 100Whose digits give you 10.Choose the happy median.Add it to: The square root of The cube of five divided byThe sum of 3 and 2.

cube, history, library, mathematics, median, path, prime-numbers

Megan Frazer Blakemore

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.

art, literature