Published by Corgi, part of Random House Children's Publishers UK
Format: Paperback
£5.99
Author:
John Dougherty
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780440867876
£5.99
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EAN: 9780440867876
Published: 6 Mar 2008
Bansi O'Hara is visiting her granny in Ireland, when very strange things start to happen. First there is the swan that seems to be following them from the ferry, then the strange little man who appears in her bedroom and says he's a brownie called Pogo.
Things get even stranger when Bansi finds out that her birth fulfilled an ancient prophecy from Tir na n'Og, the land of the faeries, and that the wicked Lord of the Dark Sidhe wants to spill her blood on faery soil.
Bansi, Pogo and Tam, a handsome faery who can change into animal form, cross through the gate that separates the two worlds to try and make the prophecy come true for the good faery peoples. But the Dark Lord is waiting for them . . .
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The author has ransacked the realm of Faery and skilfully balances real chills and thrills with wonderful knockabout humour
- Publishing News
A fantastic romp of a story, full of myth, mayhem and magic
- Primary Times South
A highly entertaining read with plenty of comic relief to the book's darker moments
- Carousel
This is a romping good read . . . From the opening chapter we are hurled into a whirlwind of a story, full of humour, excitement, suspense and fantasy . . . The story throws up many surprises, vividly related for maximum effect, with a satisfying resolution
- Inis
This would be a wonderful story for confident readers independently and also for use as a classroom reader
- Read Me
JOHN DOUGHERTY lives in Gloucestershire. A supply teacher with plenty of experience of classroom activities in primary education, he is also a singer-songwriter with one CD already available - and has appeared on TV when his living room was designed in a Gothic style by Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen. In 2004, he also ran the London Marathon to raise funds for a charity to help children in care.
Zeus on the Loose was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award in 2004 and Jack Slater Monster Investigator was shortlisted for the Ottaker's Children's Book Prize in 2005
