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Midnight Pirates

by Ally Kennen

Interest age: 9+
Reading age: 9+

Published by Scholastic, 2013

  • Adventure

About this book

Despite its beautiful location in an isolated Cornish cove and a resident ghost, the Dodo Hotel is struggling and Miranda and her brothers - surf-dude Cal and dog-loving Jack - are devastated when their parents decide to sell up.  The children must go to boarding school while their parents organise their future. 

But these aren’t conventional children: deftly evading school, they flee back to The Dodo, determined to become hoteliers in their own right. But their first guests aren’t what they seem; the children suddenly find themselves in danger, trying to escape two dastardly oil pirates and save a super-tanker from running aground.

Wonderful characters and eccentric humour drive this beautifully-paced story with a tension-filled plot. A cracking contemporary adventure bursting with exuberance and energy.

About the author

Ally Kennen is a British author of adventure novels for children and teens. Some of her books have been marketed as thrillers and they may be classed as horror fiction. She was born in Somerset and grew up on a farm in the Exmoor region of South West England. She studied Archaeology and History at the University of Birmingham.

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