Car-Jacked Award-winning author by Ali Sparkes (author)

Jack Mattingly is a genius. He has an IQ of 170. He speaks fluent Mandarin and Latin. And he can calculate the square root of 1,673,549 in his head. But when Jack’s parents’ car is hi-jacked, with him inside it, for once he’s as clueless as the rest of us. The car-jacker doesn’t know Jack’s in the car – yet. But it’s only a matter of time before he’s discovered. And then anything could happen. Only one thing’s for sure: Jack’s in for the thrill-ride of his life . . . A high-octane adventure from the winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780192733467

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Date published

June 4th, 2015

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.5; Upper years; 10.0 points

Other details

320 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Ali Sparkes

Ali Sparkes is the author of lots of children’s books including the award winning Frozen in Time, and the Monster Makers, Shapeshifter and S.W.I.T.C.H. series.

She’s also a journalist and BBC broadcaster who regularly exploits her sons, as an in-house focus group for her children’s novels. She reckons it’s a fair trade for being used as a walking food and drink vending machine.

Ali was a local newspaper reporter and columnist before joining BBC Radio Solent as a producer and presenter and then chucked in the safe job to be dangerously freelance and write scripts and manuscripts. Her first venture was as a comedy columnist on Woman’s Hour and later on Home Truths.

She grew up adoring adventure stories about kids who mess about in the woods and still likes to mess about in the woods herself whenever possible. Ali lives with her husband and two sons in Southampton.