The Wish Ring Cipher Giano Cromley the McKays

the McKays

meaning shifts--abstraction a tool Ulmer wields to better get at the question at the heart of Phantom Number: How might a white friend write in protest of intimate Black death at a time when the push is to write Black joy as antidote to the commodification of Black trauma

she finds 'a secular way of praying

A cross between Dickens's David Copperfield

The Wish Ring Cipher Giano Cromley the McKaysBy: Alexandra Ott Published by Norton Young Readers, 2026 02 03 A group of code busting friends races to find a powerful ring before their rivals can use it for dark magic. Emma Avery has always loved solving puzzles and codes, and now that she's processing a recent autism diagnosis and facing down seventh grade at a new school, they're even more important to her. Then Emma meets Nate Lin. He's popular and funny and . . . loves codes, too. He