Claire Rosemary Jane grew up in Malvern in Worcestershire and is the eldest of six children. Her father was one of the Bawdsey Manor radar pioneers. Claire has always liked reading but her peak childhood reading was between the ages of 9 and 12. At school, her favourite subject was geography, although she also liked both writing and music. Claire went on to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor. She has travelled widely to many parts of the world and as a result has progressively become more and more interested (and concerned) in what humans are doing to harm the planet.
When teenager Maria Rossi skipped school one day because she had been bullied by one of the boys in the school and was found crying in the bird hide overlooking the sea and the salt marshes by Dr Wilson, an elderly retired doctor who had spent his whole working life working with children, it started a rather more unusual friendship between the two of them as he shared his love of seabirds with her and he slowly taught her more and more about the wildlife out on this desolate peninsula.
As a result of their regular Saturday morning meetings together, they ended up saving not only the lives of some wildlife but of some people as well.
This chance first meeting was to plunge them into an adventure that neither of them could have dreamed would happen.
When fourteen-year-old Dan witnessed the bridge to his family’s farm collapse, he quickly grasped the gravity of the situation. With the town below in imminent danger and no way to warn anyone by phone, Dan knew he had to act fast. The disaster had all begun with relentless rain.
Dan, an avid trails motorbike rider on his father’s farm, had recently befriended Laura, a slightly older and equally adventurous horse rider. They met one Sunday morning while exploring the moor, along with Dan’s younger twin siblings. Together, this group of friends faced the unfolding catastrophe head-on.
Their courageous and inventive efforts to navigate each terrifying twist of the disaster form the heart of this gripping tale.
From a very young age Robert had liked robots. This was not exactly surprising as he had a very mechanically minded father. But when he got to the age of eleven, something happened which dramatically changed the course of Robert’s life, an event which would leave a permanent scar on him. Two further occurrences came about which were to steer Robert’s life in a new and exciting direction, the opening of a rather special shop in the town of Waterford, and the arrival of Aaliyah, the American girl who came to his school when he was fourteen. Set just after the new millennium, this whole story rotates around the building of hobby robots, the use of computers, and the various relationships of the people involved.
With chapter titles almost entirely computer related, and the book cram full of various computer and robot inspired topics, this exciting and heartwarming story is a must for any child or teenager who loves anything of a technological nature. It also challenges the whole concept of stereotyping, underlining how ridiculous it can be.
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