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EXPLORER ACADEMY
SERIES II: VELA

THE SAILOR CIPHER

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COMING
APRIL 23, 2024!

The explorers are back for their second year of global travel with a new ship, Vela, and a new adventure! Fresh off winning the North Star, the award given to the Academy's most promising first-year explorer, Sailor York is excited to be back exploring with her friends, until a long-buried secret threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to achieve. Then, as if things aren't complicated enough, Sailor's older sister, Keel, goes missing! Sailor enlists her closest friends and teammates, Cruz, Emmett, and Lani to aid in the rescue, a move that plunges the explorers into the dark and dangerous world of animal trafficking. More codes, puzzles, and mysteries await in the first book in the new EXPLORER ACADEMY series from National Geographic! 

For ages 8 and up.

Click Here to Read the First Chapter !

Book Launch & Tour

Come help me celebrate the launch of THE SAILOR CIPHER, the first book in the second Explorer Academy series! I'll share some inside scoop on the inspiration for the new book and you'll get your copy before it releases to the public on 4/23!

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WHERE: Brick & Mortar Books in Redmond, WA

WHEN: Sunday, April 21st, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Please RSVP HERE 

 

Can't make the event but would like a signed book sent to you? 

Please click HERE. To have your book personalized, be sure to specify on the form who you'd like it signed to.

Tour dates around the country will be added soon, so please check back!

READ THE EXCITING CONCLUSION TO  

EXPLORER ACADEMY
SERIES I: ORION

Explorer Academy 6:
THE DRAGON'S BLOOD

From the jungles of Borneo to the forests of Tasmania, the explorers embark on their most challenging expeditions yet. For Cruz, it is a time of self-discovery as he seeks to make sense of the family mystery he is slowly unraveling. Who is betraying him and why? More surprises are on the way as Cruz faces new revelations about his destiny and those determined to keep him from fulfilling it!

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EXPLORER ACADEMY 7:
The FORBIDDEN ISLAND

Get set for some thrills and surprises with the epic finale to Cruz's first year at the Academy. Will Cruz recover the last piece of his mother's formula and deliver it to its final destination before Nebula can stop him? Will he, finally, root out the explorer spy before it's too late? And which explorer will win the coveted North Star Award? All will be revealed in the final installment of the EXPLORER ACADEMY series!

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JOIN thE ADVENTURE from the BEGINNING 

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Visit ExplorerAcademy.com for more book excerpts, character info, codebreaking games, explorer videos, and more!

Click HERE to watch an
exclusive EA cartoon short.

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A u t h o r   B i o

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