Kidnap on the California Comet (Adventures on Train)

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Kidnap on the California Comet (Adventures on Train)

Kidnap on the California Comet (Adventures on Train)

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Fans of Agatha Christie, or, more recently, Robin Stevens and Katherine Woodfine, should adore this mystery which makes a steam trail all of its own.

Sadly it launched on the first day back to school so I held it back knowing it would mean a late night for him while he read, I wasn’t wrong! So when his Uncle Nat invites him aboard the California Comet, the iconic three-day train journey from Chicago to San Francisco, he leaps at the chance to travel. The Adventures on Trains series is published in the UK and US by Macmillan, and is licensed to more than ten countries around the world, including the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latin America, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain and Sweden. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

After the excitement of his adventures aboard the Highland Falcon Thief, Harrison Beck can't wait for the opportunity to go on another amazing train journey. He grew up with a railway line at the bottom of his garden and has been fascinated by trains ever since. Kidnap on the California Comet involves the daughter of August Reza, billionaire entrepreneur and train enthusiast, who has invited Uncle Nat and Harrison aboard to reveal a secret brand new invention.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. If you’re teaching a KS2 topic on North America, Kidnap on the California Comet provides lots of great jumping-off points. My son is an avid book reader but during lockdown it became so hard to stop him re reading a certain wizarding book series, he became stuck in a rut, refusing to read anything else. Board the California Comet and help Harrison Beck to solve another heart-stopping mystery in the second Adventures on Trains story, Kidnap on the California Comet, from prize-winning M. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.Along with new friends—spunky 13-year-old Mason and his younger sister, Hadley—Hal races against the clock to find the missing girl before the California Comet reaches its final destination. There was just the right amount of choice to suit everyone without being overwhelming and I received comments from parents and staff about the quality of books offered compared to previous sales which have always been based around current crazes and well known celebrity authors. It lives up to our hopes, and the strengths of the opening title of this series, The Highland Falcon Thief.

She works as a freelance digital media producer for clients such as the National Theatre and Harry Potter West End. This was perfect bedtime reading, although both would have been capable of reading to themselves we chose to snuggle up together. The first-class follow-up to former Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month The Highland Falcon Thief finds Harrison Beck on the trail of a billionaire’s missing daughter whilst travelling from Chicago to San Francisco. It seems that his fellow passengers are an interesting group, from would-be magicians to a hectored son.Ross Montgomery, author of Perijee and Me Wildly funny, with hairpin plot bends and inventive characters, this series is firmly on track to become a bestseller.



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