Hunt for the Golden Scarab

LoveReading4Kids Says

A fantastic start to what is obviously going to be a brilliant new series from a bestselling and award-winning author, this was literally unputdownable!

A fast moving and actioned packed time travel adventure that also revels in loads of historical and geographical detail (in this case of Ancient and modern Egypt) that will fascinate and inform as well as entertain. It is also so refreshing to see an adventure where the relationship between parent and child is so positive and where the parent does not have to ‘disappear’ but is very much a partner.

Sim’s martial art teaching Mum has moved them around a lot, but he is currently enrolled in the local school and enjoying the company of his friend Nelson, while they live in the caretaker’s flat at the Sir John Soames Museum in London. When some sinister strangers appear at the museum one night and his Mum reveals that she can open doors into time, he finds himself on a dangerous quest to locate the golden heart scarab of Nefertiti before the mysterious Council of Keys claim it and capture him. But he has Nelson helping him from London and is accompanied by a newly found and formidable cousin, Jeopardy as he begins to understand the true nature of the powerful gift that runs in his family.

The internal logic of the time travel with the use of music and musical instruments as a means for opening the time doors works particularly well and it will be fascinating to see where the next adventure will take Sim, Nelson and Jeopardy. At the end of this instalment there is a feature which will be particularly loved by teachers! Nelson’s Time Traveller’s Diary which records the factual settings and historical period of each door they travel through and a wonderfully explanatory Key’s Guide to Ancient Egypt. Highly recommended.

Joy Court

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