This book has it all – a hidden tunnel, a secret lake and a disappearing dog. Good ingredients for a fun read and it delivers. Author, Karen Inglis, describes it as “a time travel mystery adventure with modern twists’.
Stella and her younger brother Tom have moved to London. When their neighbour’s dog keeps mysteriously disappearing and reappearing, wet. They are intrigued.
Their attempts to solve the mystery involves a buried boat and a tunnel that leads them to a secret lake. The children travel back in time to their home and gardens as they were a hundred years before. Here they meet new friends and enemies and discover astonishing connections between the past and the present.
It’s a book of short chapters which helps maintain the pace and the characters are interesting and charismatic.
The Secret Lake is a good read for middle grade and any age upwards, really and has already been enjoyed by over half a million young readers and translated around the world.
- Publisher : Well Said Press (4 Aug. 2011)
- ISBN-10 : 0956932304
- ISBN-13 : 978-0956932303
