Katya Balen

The Thames and Tide Club: The Secret City (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Dean, Rachael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An exciting new adventure series for young readers from Carnegie Medal winner Katya Balen, author of October, October and The Light in Everything

Clem and her friends Ash and Zara are members of the Thames and Tide Club! Every weekend they go mudlarking by the river, searching for treasures that have washed up on the shore. Clem has found old things, new things and a whole heap of rubbish. But one day, she finds something really special. Something magical that belongs in the river and must be returned to its rightful owner ... or else.

Before they know it, the Thames and Tide Club are on the weirdest, wildest, underwater-iest adventure they could possibly have imagined on a mission to save Underwater London!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526640468
• Artikelnr.: 67982771

Autorenporträt

Katya Balen is an award-winning author of books for children. Her debut novel, The Space We're In, was highly commended for the Branford Boase Award, October, October won the Yoto Carnegie Medal and the UKLA Book Award, and The Light in Everything was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal. When she's not writing books, Katya likes to scroll through dog-rescue websites, bake and attempt to keep her house plants alive. She lives in London with her partner and their dog.

Rezensionen

Balen doesn’t shy away from difficult subjects and her books all embrace weighty themes within gently suspenseful plots. In The Thames and Tide Club, however, she’s writing for younger readers (the recommended age is seven-plus), and the pace is notably brisker as the story plunges us straight into a highly imagined fantasy, much of which takes place underwater. Balen’s writing also contains a simple poeticism: “Everything looked very familiar. The shapes of the buildings were exactly like the ones above water?… but the more she looked, the more she could see signs that the city was falling apart.” There is a gentle, but never overbearing, moral about protecting the environment; and the combination of short, suspenseful chapters and engaging illustrations by Rachael Dean make this a book that even less confident readers are likely to enjoy