Opie Jones Talks to Animals
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2021

Opie Jones Talks to Animals

By Nat Luurtsema, Fay Austin (Illustrator)

Book #1 in the Opie Jones series

Ordinary girl joins superheroes, discovers she can read animal minds. Can she save the world?

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Opie Jones, an ordinary 10-year-old, is unexpectedly recruited by The Resistance, a team of mind-reading superheroes. But Opie's talent is unique—she can only read animal minds. As she navigates a world of chatty creatures, a brainwashing villain threatens her and her friends. Can Opie's unusual gift be the key to saving the day? Dive into a world where the smallest voices might hold the biggest secrets.

From the publisher

Dr Dolittle meets Kid Normal in a hilarious middle grade superhero series from comedian Nat Luurtsema. Perfect for fans of David Baddiel, My Brother is a Superhero and Lightning Girl 10-year-old Opie Jones is Very Ordinary. In fact nothing remarkable has ever happened to her, if you don’t count the cat that gives her funny looks from next door (which she doesn’t). So she is naturally very surprised when she is recruited to join The Resistance - a team of superheroes who can read minds, and have a dastardly brainwashing villain to defeat.HOWEVER it turns out Opie can’t read human minds, she can read ANIMAL ones. The other members of the Resistance are very disappointed. And a whole world of animal chat and demands is opening up to her. She’s still a superhero, just one on her hands and knees in the mud, chatting to a pedantic worm.But when the brainwashing villain is out to get Opie and her friends, it might just be that listening to all the creatures great and small is what makes Opie Jones the right person to save the world.

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Format
Paperback
Pages
288
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Themes & topics
Books about animalsBooks about diversityBooks about superheroesBooks about multicultural
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Language

Some uses of "God" and d*mn

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Book details

Publication
Published
December 13, 2022
First published
February 4, 2021
Publisher
Farshore
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781405296083

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