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Ali Sparkes

Ali Sparkes

Ali is an author of more than 40 children's adventures - most of them published with Oxford Children's Books. Her first stand alone novel - Frozen In Time - was Blue Peter Book of the Year in 2010 and her more recent novel Car-Jacked has won five regional awards and been shortlisted for the UK's national Childen's Book Award. Starting out as a newspaper reporter and then a BBC broadcast journalist, Ali had a spell writing comedy for BBC Radio 4 before getting her first book deal and publishing her debut Shapeshifter series novel - Finding the Fox - in 2006.

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  • Car-Jacked

    Car-Jacked

    Author: Ali Sparkes
    Publisher: OUP Oxford

    Ross McAllister has just robbed a bank, is on the run and must get to London with £100,000 by Wednesday or his brother will die. But when he steals a car, the last thing he expects is to find 12-year-old genius Jack in the back seat. Jack is shocked too, and even though he knows it's a bad idea, he decides to stay and help Ross. London is hundreds of miles a…

  • Frozen in Time

    Frozen in Time

    Author: Ali Sparkes
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Interest age: 9+
    Reading age: 8+

    Sparkes justifiably won the Blue Peter Children's Book Award 2010 with this novel, almost a twenty-first century update of a Blyton Famous Five adventure.

  • Night Speakers

    Night Speakers

    Author: Ali Sparkes
    Publisher: Scholastic
    Interest age: 10-14
    Reading age: 10+

    An atmospheric supernatural thriller, in which three unlikely allies must solve an eerie mystery to put a stop to an escalating wave of killing that threatens their town.

  • Out of This World

    Out of This World

    Author: Ali Sparkes
    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Tyrone Lewis was just an ordinary thirteen year old, until the day he discovered something extraordinary in the woods . . . a glowing lump of rock or metal or something. Whatever it is, it gives him an awesome power. And a lot of trouble . . . because someone wants it back, and they'll stop at nothing to get it.

  • S.W.I.T.C.H Spider Stampede

    S.W.I.T.C.H Spider Stampede

    Author: Ali Sparkes Illustrator: Ross Collins
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Interest age: 7+
    Reading age: 7+

    Follow Josh and Danny on their terrifying trail down the plughole...

  • Wishful Thinking

    Wishful Thinking

    Author: Ali Sparkes
    Publisher: OUP
    Interest age: 10+
    Reading age: 10+

    This funny and engaging book from a Blue Peter Book Award-winning author holds plenty of appeal for boys and girls alike

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