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The Eye of the North

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Emmeline Widget has never left Widget Manor – and that’s the way she likes it. But when her scientist parents mysteriously disappear, she finds herself being packed off on a ship to France, heading for a safe house in Paris. Onboard she is befriended by an urchin stowaway called Thing. But before she can reach her destination she is kidnapped by the sinister Dr Siegfried Bauer.

Dr Bauer is bound for the ice fields of Greenland to summon a legendary monster from the deep. And he isn’t the only one determined to unleash the creature. The Northwitch has laid claim to the beast, too.

Can Emmeline and Thing stop their fiendish plans and save the world?

A dazzling fantasy adventure, perfect for fans of ROOFTOPPERS , THE UNCOMMONERS and A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Our Review Panel says...

The story follows the adventures of its plucky heroine Emmeline, who finds out that her parents have disappeared and is then shipped off to a mystery address in Paris. The opening chapters are exciting and filled with the perfect amount of intrigue and an enjoyably fast plot drive. On the ship to France, Emmeline meets an entertaining companion called ‘Thing’ and the pair are inadvertently drawn together when they are forced to escape from a group of menacing kidnappers, who eventually catch Emmeline and take her to the frozen north under the directions of the villainous Dr Bauer…

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