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Nothing Adds Up
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 9 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The bridge costs three tokens. Bug pays three.
The bridge asks for four.
Nobody touched it. And the old man at the gate is certain it has always been four.
Welcome to Reckonwick - a town that runs on its numbers agreeing with each other. A town where the tally board reads two hundred and six, and then, when you glance away for two seconds, one hundred and eighty-eight.
Bug is the best planner on the squad. Give her a map and a morning and she can solve anything.
So she fixes one small broken sum.
And it breaks two more.
Every answer she forces spawns two more problems. The clock is running out, and the smarter Bug is, the faster the town falls apart. To save Reckonwick she'll have to do the one thing she has never managed.
Stop.
FOR PARENTS
Ages 8-12. About 28,000 words across 24 short chapters. Written for confident readers and for kids still building stamina.
For the kid who'd rather be on a screen. Short chapters, a ticking clock, and a story that moves like a run through a level.
This is the puzzle one. Book 1 was funny, Book 6 was tender - this one is a proper brain-bender, with a world whose rules bend and a heroine who has to think her way through it. It's told through Bug, the squad's planner, who runs into a problem her cleverness makes worse.
Content: no romance, no violence, no bad language. Nobody is hurt and nobody dies - the danger is getting stuck, and everyone gets unstuck. It ends warm, with the squad together.
Book 7 of the Wanderweft series from Kids Fun Learn Club, the kids' learning channel run by 11-year-old Parikshet and his dad. The complete ten-book series. Reads on its own - reading in order adds more. In order: Noob Squad, Everybody Remembers, Nobody Wins, Never Seen, Nobody Did It, Everybody Leaves, Nothing Adds Up, Nothing Stays Saved, Nobody's Coming, Everybody Ends.
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