Friday's Tunnel
John Verney
(Author)
Description
John Verney is obviously writing far more for his own pleasure than for children and this is the way the best children's books get written."--Madeline L'Engle, New York Times
Twelve-year-old February Callendar and her older brother Friday are home from boarding school for the summer. For fun, Friday has been digging a tunnel through the backyard. When their father, a war correspondent, leaves to cover an international crisis, the siblings escape their mother and their tutor and get wrapped up in a crisis of their own. They can hardly believe it when their search for clues--including a suspicious plane crash, a mysterious mineral, and a comic strip with secret messages--leads right back to Friday's tunnel and a chance to save the world during their summer vacation.
Product Details
| Publisher | Paul Dry Books |
| Publish Date | April 30, 2019 |
| Pages | 263 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781589881372 |
| Dimensions | 8.4 X 5.4 X 0.7 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
"The Callendar family . . . is human and real, full of noise, squabbles and faults . . . it would be unfair to reveal the role the Callendar children play solving a frightening and realistic world crisis . . . John Verney is obviously writing far more for his own pleasure than for children and this is the way the best children's books get written."--Madeline L'Engle, New York Times
"[A] marvellous thriller for children."--A. N. Wilson
"All the qualities of vitality and enjoyment, of laughter and life, of invention and poetry and love, of which we seem starved, are here in full measure."--The Times Literary Supplement
"The whole thing whips itself into a state of enormous excitement and complication, like a whodunnit, but much livelier than most."--The Guardian
"A chaotic romp centered around the Cold War which encompasses family politics, nuclear science, ponies, unscrupulous spies and sibling rivalry. It has a sharp-talking female protagonist, is very funny and highly entertaining."--Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You
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