Simon arrives home from school to be confronted first by police and then federal agents (they wear dark suits Ray-Ban sunglasses). His dad is missing, drowned under mysterious circumstances ... and soon pronounced dead. The agents immediately start searching Simon's father's home office for research papers and his computer because Simon's father was working on a top-secret government project. They leave, but not before scanning the family with a forensic scanning device. And within months Simon and his family have moved from Australia and are in England and Simon has been enrolled at a very special school. Simon has become an agent for the very secretive Time Bureau ... agents, temponauts, who travel through time! But as well as travelling through time on mission for the Tim Bureau Simon also has a mission to find out about his father's disappearance!
Fantastic, riveting read. Where will Simon go next?
A wonderful read about friendship, sports, chess (of course) and
Anna loves chess - in fact she is a chess nut and captain of her schools chess team. She loves chess. Jackson is the schools star athlete, racing for the title of the Outstanding athlete of the year for the school. Anna detests the physical sports and the sporting people, so admired by the school population. So when Jackson, joins the schools chess club and shows that he is also an excellent chess player (as well as a sporting jock) Anna has to confront her sporting issues (and learn to do some running too) and Jackson has to make some very serious decisions.
It's great to see a title where chess is the star school sport!
Willy Waggle-Dagger: By the Picking of My Nose Martin Chatterton & Gregory Rogers (Little Hare)
Wearing a fake beard to see the latest production of hugely famous Black Skulls, we meet young illy Shakespeare wearing a big false ginger beard (because he is in disguise as only grown-ups are allowed inside the theatre). Soon Willy is hiding beneath the Queen's petticoats. but when the beard starts tickling the queen - chaos begins and Willy is on the run. The Queen's guards are chasings him. His own father is chasing him! Where will Willy hide .. with the Black Skulls of course!
There are giggles and laughter by the bucket loads with this book - which is not quite Shakespeare as we know it although there are plenty of links to the great bard and his works!
Hilarious fun, lovely reading and terrific illustrations.
