Kidnap on the California Comet (Adventures on Train)

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It was good to be back with the familiar characters of Uncle Nat and Hal and to meet their fellow travellers on the California Comet. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first.

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. In this book’s adventure, Harrison is aboard the beautiful, iconic California Comet, with the aim of interviewing a battery billionaire. There are plenty of notes at the back for train fans, and the book may therefore appeal especially to vehicle-obsessed children who are looking for a longer book with a clear plot to follow.Wildly funny, with hairpin plot bends and inventive characters, this series is firmly on track to become a bestseller. 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. The illustrations are beautiful and add so much to the story, Hal (aka Elisa Paganelli) uses his amazing artistic skills to help him solve the mystery. I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly!

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. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. The second instalment in the bestselling Adventures On Trains series, Kidnap on the California Comet follows Hal and Uncle Nat to the United States for another amazing railway journey - and a brand new mystery to solve. He grew up with a railway line at the bottom of his garden and has been fascinated by trains ever since.

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. Harrison Beck travels the world on trains with his journalist uncle, and wherever he goes, crime seems to follow. A lifelong fan of puzzles, games, and detective fiction, he grew up with a railway at the bottom of his garden and has been mad about trains ever since. This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally). 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.

Is there anything that Hal has seen or learned that could help unpick the clues to recovering Marianne?This second instalment sees Hal in the middle of a mystery that keeps you looking for clues throughout. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do.

After completing artistic studies she made a career in advertising and has been the founder and owner of a small award winning design and trade business. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman in the second mystery adventure in the major Adventures on Trains series. It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you. 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. 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 bestselling authors M.

You guys were so fab and Dawn was such a lovely presence in the schools - I will absolutely be in touch next time I'm in your neck of the woods. Ted likes the weather, he also likes statistics and routine but his life is thrown into disarray when his Aunt Gloria and cousin Salim arrive, like a hurricane, to stay in London en-route to a new life in New York. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. During the trip on the California Comet we find Harrison has managed to make some friends with a few children onboard but when one of those friends disappears following a clearly witnessed kidnap can Harrison and his new friends come up with the answer to find what has happened and solve this mystery?