LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Kit and his family have moved from Nottingham to the Scottish Highlands and to say it’s a culture shock is putting it mildly. The wi-fi is practically non-existent, the neighbours like shooting things, and he’s overwhelmed by the ‘bigness’ of the landscape. When his little brother Jack finds the tag from a missing Golden Eagle, Kit decides to investigate the crime for his school project. This causes some raised eyebrows as the finger of suspicion points firmly at Kit’s neighbours, a local farmer, a very bad-tempered gamekeeper and the local landowner, who happens to be dad to the school’s most popular pupil, Tamora. The stakes get higher when Kit discovers a pair of Golden Eagles on their eyrie. With help from Tamora, Kit sets out to protect the eagles which involves him and Jack in some pretty risky situations, not least a gallop across the heather on the back of Tamora’s horse.
A whodunnit with a very effective environmental theme, this is also very funny, Kit’s comic commentary prompts lots of laughs as will some of the situations in which he finds himself. A thoroughly enjoyable read with a strong plot, great characters and lots of laughs.
Andrea Reece
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When Things Went Wild Synopsis
A hilarious whodunit adventure for readers aged 9+ from the author of Escape from Camp Boring.
Full of mishaps, mayhem and Tom Mitchell's trademark wit, When Things Went Wild is also a timely call to protect our environment and its wildlife. When Kit's family move to a crumbling house in the Scottish Highlands, he's got a lot to deal with - terrible Wi-Fi, a new school in the middle of nowhere, and, as always, his annoying little brother, Jack. But it's not until the brothers find a strange object on the moors that Kit's problems really begin.
A policewoman comes knocking, and the boys learn that they have found a tracker that has been removed from the leg of a golden eagle. The illegal killing of these majestic birds is all too common, and now a pair of nesting eagles are under threat. Kit and Jack start to investigate, soon joined by Tamora - the most popular girl in school - and her younger sister, Bea.
Who is trying to harm the eagles, and why? Chief suspects are landowner Lord Cavendish, local farmer McNab and sinister game keeper Mosby.
Can the city kids cope with the country - and catch the culprit?
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9780008403539 |
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7th July 2022 |
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Tom Mitchell |
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HarperCollins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
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Paperback |
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301 pages |
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About Tom Mitchell
Tom Mitchell is mostly a dad, partly a teacher and sometimes a writer. He grew up in the West Country and settled in London after a brief interlude in the East Midlands. He lives in Kent with his wife, Nicky, and sons, Dylan and Jacob. In 2015 Tom's Twitter account was one of twenty-five worldwide invited to have its tweets showcased in the Twitter Fiction Festival. He has had comedy sketches performed for BBC Radio 4, both nonfiction and fiction pieces published on The Classical and Londonist websites, and was a semi-finalist in the UK's Channel 4-organised search for new writing, The Play's the Thing. How to Rob a Bank was his first novel.
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