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Mysterium, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 9 years, Fiction, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage), Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Magic, mystery and murder collide in a gripping debut about the world's most thrilling circus ...
Danny Woo has escaped from the jaws of death once - but his trials are not yet over. He's meant to be recovering, but when he discovers the Mysterium - the circus into which he was born, and which cost his parents their lives - is being reformed in Barcelona, he determines to join them. But all is not well - who is the bad seed inside the once-loyal company And who is the woman in green who can kill, and who seems to be trailing Danny with each move he makes Everything, he knows, is linked to the death of his parents: he must continue his quest to find his parents' killers. Once again, the story culminates in Danny's participation in a well-known and dangerous stunt.
Julian Sedgwick
Julian Sedgwick was born in Kent in 1966. A lifelong interest in the arts and culture of China and Japan has influenced much of his work - he read Oriental Studies and Philosophy at Cambridge, and between 2001 and 2007, travelled widely in Japan. He has always written but before focusing his energies on children's fiction, he worked as a bookseller and therapist. He lives with his wife Isabel and their sons Joseph and William in Ely, Cambs. Visit his website at www.juliansedgwick.co.uk
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