When the McIntyre family moves in next door, Eva is intrigued. It’s the first interesting thing to happen for ages! But her over-protective Dad – even more so since Eva’s mum died – doesn’t agree. And no one can deny that the McIntyres are noisy! All the same, Eva is curious about Jamie, whom she often sees on the roof of his garden shed, escaping the family chaos. And when Jamie is accused of vandalising the local park, Eva is sure he didn’t do it. It’s up to her to stick up for him – but then Jamie disappears. Suddenly Eva is caught up in race against time: a helter-skelter race involving a ‘borrowed’ ice cream van, lots of irate keep-fit fans and lashings of ice-cream!

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781408820506

Publisher

Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Date published

June 6th, 2013

Lexile measure

520L Lexiles are the global standard in reading assessment. They are unique as they are able to measure a child and a book on the same scale – ensuring the right book gets to the right child at the right time.

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Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.6; Middle years; 5.0 points

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Elen Caldecott

Elen Caldecott graduated with an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University. At the end of the course she was highly commended in the PFD Prize for Most Promising Writer for Young People. Before becoming a writer, she was an archaeologist, a nurse, a theatre usher and a museum security guard. It was while working at the museum that Elen realised there is a way to steal anything if you think about it hard enough. Elen either had to become a master thief or create some characters to do it for her – and so her debut novel How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant was born.

Elen lives in Bristol with her husband, Simon.