Stunt Kids
Trent Roberts
Stunt Kids
Trent Roberts
After ‘The Accident’, Gretel’s parents wrapped her in cotton wool. (Not literally, that would be ridiculously itchy.) They wouldn’t let her do anything slightly dangerous. No running. No jumping. No dancing. She wasn’t even allowed to take out the rubbish in case she rolled the wheelie bin over her foot.
So when she finds herself at a Stunt Camp where daredevil kids jump from great heights, engage in intense combat and flip, twist and tumble like it’s the easiest thing in the world, Gretel wants to sink into the floor. No, deeper than that. She wants to sink into the Earth’s core where the temperature is a balmy 6000 degrees.
Her first step is to give herself a stunt name, Gypsy Flowers. Next step, face every one of her fears. Not just face them, headbutt them. Especially when she and her new friends are assigned a top secret, highly dangerous mission …
The Stunt Kids must find action hero Tom Von Strongberg before he unleashes a hypnotic computer virus … a virus that will turn hundreds of millions of kids into mindless zombies.
Review
Julia Jackson
Poor Gretel Grey. An only child, stuck with boring parents, homeschooled away from the outside world, forced to wear drab grey pinafores and grey socks of the type you’d find Lemony Snicket characters to be wearing, or Miss Trunchbull, in Matilda, to assign. Yes, Poor Gretel Grey, indeed. However, when she is unwittingly sent by her boring, ‘safety first’ helicopter parents to an action stunt camp for kids – where she is completely out of her comfort zone – she rediscovers herself, and what it is to be young and free of overbearing parental control. The opportunity to really test herself comes with recruitment to the security services to bring down a destructive digital mogul.
There are many dark aspects about this book, and there is so much to love as well. If you enjoyed the rollicking action and superheroic antics of The Incredibles, or if you loved the Lemony Snicket books, where the Baudelaire kids continually fight to overcome dastardly Count Olaf, then this is for you! For ages 8+.
Julia Jackson is from Readings Carlton
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