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Join three sporting detectives as they race around the world in the brand new mystery adventure series from multi gold medal-winning Paralympian, Ellie Robinson.

Hannah, Maria, and Seb are at the World Championships in Tokyo, bonding over their excitement at watching their favourite athletes compete. But Jesse Marks, a star runner on the US relay team has had his gold medal stolen! The sport park is alive with gossip and as the three new friends begin to investigate, several suspects begin to emerge. With time running out before the final race is run, can the detectives uncover who is out to sabotage the team?

The race to solve the case is on in this twisting, action-packed look-behind-the-scenes at the world’s biggest sporting event, with clues and illustrations throughout from James Lancett.

You’re bound to know a Pamela Butchart fan – someone who adores school-based hijinks of the silliest kind – and Ben Davies’ series kicks off in the same high-energy, slapstick style. Lenny Lemmon is the wildcard of the class, with a huge imagination and a healthy disrespect for rules. He does try to do the right thing, but more often than not it’s going to land him in trouble – and in this story, it’s going to land him in a rather big patch of gruel. Lenny’s class is doing “Victorian School Day”, and what would be more original and impressive to bring in than a giant, scruffy wild rat?

Obviously Ratty is not going to be a nice, placid, stay-in-the-cage kind of rat, is he? With best friend Sam and the mysterious new girl Jessica Conrad (who claims to be a professional rat-catcher from America), Lenny and Ratty cause absolute, sticky, disgusting pandemonium across the entire school. Including the exceptionally very secret hidden bit…

This is a great book for Y3 upwards; packed with crazy illustrations, gags and facepalm moments. It would be a nice addition to any library and would work well as a read-aloud for a book club or to read to a class, especially at the beginning of term.

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