Observed arrival · 2026-10-20
CAUGHT!: Customs cases for young readers
A three-book nonfiction series for ages 10–13 about what customs officers find at seaports, airports, and land borders.
- For
- Readers ages 10–13 and classroom educators
- Worth noticing
- The site says officers are composites with invented names, disclosed in an author’s note before the first chapter.
Field notes
The series is organized around three border settings—seaport, airport, and land border—with each book presenting cases and asking readers to choose what officers should do before revealing the outcome. The homepage identifies its photographs as public-domain U.S. government images and says real cases are sourced in the books’ back matter. It also distinguishes the named, invented officer guides from real personnel; direct orders list free U.S. shipping, with one-to-two-week delivery.
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