The Mystery in the Marshes
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“[A]dventure-lovingreaders will find the developing friendships between the four children amusingand the mystery moderately exciting…. A jolly adventure story…”–Kirkus Reviews, review of TheCase of the Smugglers’ Curse: The After School Adventure Club: Book One The third in a seriesof gripping adventure stories featuring mystery, excitement, and friendship. Max is distraught when he receives a letterfrom the school telling him he has to go on a weekend of cycling and campingfor the Duke of Wellington awards scheme. But things vastly improve when hisfriends agree to come with him. It isn’t long before they find adventure - oradventure finds them… They make a friend named Byron and set up camp in aforest near his home. But that night they wake to see strange lights and afierce wind blowing through the trees. Moments later Byron arrives, running andscreaming that ‘they’ are after him. When the gang follow him, they find hisbackpack but no sign of the boy. It looks like Byron has been abducted by aUFO! But surely that’s not possible… is it?
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Ben was born in Leamington Spa in 1980, and developed a very early interest in things artistic, designing programme covers for school productions and even coming first in his local library colouring-in competition. From there he went on to study animation at Surrey Institute of Art & Design, graduating in 2003.. He then gained valuable experience working on Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” before moving to Brighton to work as ‘Head of Animation’ in a media company, focusing on Character and Background design. He was also part of the Animation team creating the BAFTA winning ‘Big and Small’ CBeebies website. Since 2008, Ben has been working as a Children’s Book Illustrator from his shared studio in Brighton and he also produces screen prints and digital artwork to exhibit. He illustrated ‘Callum’s Incredible Construction Kit’ which won the Bishop’s Stortford Picture Book prize 2013.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781801300490
- Publication Date
- March 14, 2023
- Publisher
- Welbeck Flame
- Page Count
- 240
- Reading Age
- 8 - 12 years
- Lexile® Level
- 750L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~R
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~4.8
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