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The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (No Spoilers):
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (No Spoilers):
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.
When Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye, he turned and waved before getting on. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off - but no Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air?
So 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 unputdownable spine-tingling thriller - a race against time.
Rated: 3 STARS
Spoiler review:
It all starts when Ted's Aunt Gloria visits with her son, Salim. Salim is a half - Indian boy who loves buildings. He is particularly interested in an old Barracks building on the same street as Ted's house. The next day, Salim, Ted and his older sister Kat decide to take a ride on the London Eye. While waiting in the long que, a stranger approaches them with a ticket for the Eye, claiming that he is claustrophobic and cannot ride on the Eye. The trio accept the ticket and give it to Salim, as he has never ridden on the Eye before. Salim climbs into the Eye, waving at his cousins as the Eye ascends. Half an hour later, Salim's capsule lands. Kat and Ted look for Salim, but he is nowhere to be found. When Aunt Gloria and Ted's mother find out they are extremely angry.Kate and Ted examine Salim's camera and decide to have it developed in case the photographs hold clues. They soon find Marcus, a friend of Salims, who helped him escape. Marcus bought two tickets for the same capsule, using one for himself and convincing his brother to pose as a claustrophobic man who would give his ticket to Salim, pretending not to know him. Salim, who knew the plan, pretended not to know Marcus' brother and entered the same capsule as Marcus, who was dressed as a teenage girl. When the others in the capsule lined up for the souvenir photo, Salim and Marcus swapped outfits, however there was a coat jacket sleeve in one of the pictures and that was how Ted worked out that the girl who left the pod was in fact Salim now dressed as a female. Once they left the capsule, Salim and Marcus spent the day together and separated at Euston London Underground station, which was the last time Marcus saw Salim. Ted thinks that Salim is in the old Barracks building because he was so fascinated by it on the day he arrived. They find him locked in the Barracks building which was going to be demolished the following day. Hope this was useful!
Thankyou Readers
Manga Queen
Rated: 3 STARS
Spoiler review:
It all starts when Ted's Aunt Gloria visits with her son, Salim. Salim is a half - Indian boy who loves buildings. He is particularly interested in an old Barracks building on the same street as Ted's house. The next day, Salim, Ted and his older sister Kat decide to take a ride on the London Eye. While waiting in the long que, a stranger approaches them with a ticket for the Eye, claiming that he is claustrophobic and cannot ride on the Eye. The trio accept the ticket and give it to Salim, as he has never ridden on the Eye before. Salim climbs into the Eye, waving at his cousins as the Eye ascends. Half an hour later, Salim's capsule lands. Kat and Ted look for Salim, but he is nowhere to be found. When Aunt Gloria and Ted's mother find out they are extremely angry.Kate and Ted examine Salim's camera and decide to have it developed in case the photographs hold clues. They soon find Marcus, a friend of Salims, who helped him escape. Marcus bought two tickets for the same capsule, using one for himself and convincing his brother to pose as a claustrophobic man who would give his ticket to Salim, pretending not to know him. Salim, who knew the plan, pretended not to know Marcus' brother and entered the same capsule as Marcus, who was dressed as a teenage girl. When the others in the capsule lined up for the souvenir photo, Salim and Marcus swapped outfits, however there was a coat jacket sleeve in one of the pictures and that was how Ted worked out that the girl who left the pod was in fact Salim now dressed as a female. Once they left the capsule, Salim and Marcus spent the day together and separated at Euston London Underground station, which was the last time Marcus saw Salim. Ted thinks that Salim is in the old Barracks building because he was so fascinated by it on the day he arrived. They find him locked in the Barracks building which was going to be demolished the following day. Hope this was useful!
Thankyou Readers
Manga Queen
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