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First Published:
Feb 2008, 336 pages
Paperback:
May 2009, 336 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Jo Perry
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When Salim mysteriously disappears from a sealed pod on the London Eye, everyone is frantic. Even the police are baffled. Ted, whose brain runs on its own unique operating system, and his older sister, Kat, overcome their prickly relationship to become sleuthing partners. They follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin, while time ticks dangerously by .... For ages 9+.
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off – except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller–a race against time.
My favorite thing to do in London is to fly the Eye.
On a clear day you can see for twenty-five miles in all directions because you
are in the largest observation wheel ever built. You are sealed into one of the
thirty-two capsules with the strangers who were next to you in the queue, and
when they close the doors, the sound of the city is cut off. You begin to rise.
The capsules are made of glass and steel and are hung from the rim of the wheel.
As the wheel turns, the capsules use the force of gravity to stay upright. It
takes thirty minutes to go a full circle.
From the top of the ride, Kat says London looks like toy-town and the cars on
the roads below look like abacus beads going from left and right and stopping
and starting. I think London looks like London and the cars like cars, only
smaller.
The best thing to see from up there is the river Thames. You can see how it
loops and curves but when you are on the ground you think it is straight.
The...
A boy's spectacular and mystifying into-thin-air disappearance from a sealed chamber high above London launches this determined and thoughtful page-turner for middle-grade readers .... While the mysterious disappearance is intriguing, what Ted must do to understand it is truly exciting: To discover how and why his cousin vanished from a sealed pod, Ted breaches the closed chamber of his psyche and invites the world and the reader in...continued
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(Reviewed by Jo Perry).
The London Eye, the fantastic and graceful Millennium structure that dominates the skyline of 21st century London, is as much a character in the novel as Ted, his sister and the mystery.
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