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Review #14075 - Dated: 26th of May, 2015
Author: holden05 |
School days are always more fun with good friends, especially when there is a project to keep you busy. At Mouseford Academy the Thea sisters are good friends, great students and of course budding journalists, and they seem to have a knack for solving mystery’s too! Their lives are taken up with making the newspaper the best it can be, as there is a rival paper that just might take the limelight. The girls are great role models for working together, and the benefits of good friends.
In this book there are two simultaneous mystery’s happening at the same time, one involving a little controversy in the Iron Mouse Games. "It was a tight race, but the photo finish showed Ratters as the winner. The crowd roared in disbelief..." The other … our dear friend Colette who has her paw on the latest fashion has been a victim of theft! Colette’s diary, home to all her secrets has been taken… are these two mysteries connected? You need to read the story! There are coloured maps of the academy and Whale Island, to add more depth to the readers role in the story. This book is written in the style of all the Stilton books, vivid language that is punctuated by colour and style in the print. Drawing the reader further into the text, and as a learner making the rich descriptive language more prominent, and raising your reader’s language skills.
The story is full of twists and turns, it keeps young readers enthralled, and both my ‘young’ readers 13 and 10 read it cover to cover in one sitting! What I like about all the Stilton books is they have a familiar recipe (a mystery) but every book is unique in the setting, and full of twists and turns that are not predictable. I think these books are a must for getting youngsters hooked on reading. They provide such rich language that they are educational and fun at the same time. I like this book for girls who haven’t read any of the Stilton books before, it is girly and fun, while deeper than a lot of books aimed at female readers.
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