Hostage

I bought this for my eleven year old daughter for Christmas, as she absolutely adores Malorie Blackman and her work. The book itself arrived quite quickly, and it is of good quality. My daughter was really happy when she opened it up, but the book only took her ten minutes to read. It's another of Malorie Blackman's superbly well-written stories, but it is for younger readers as the font is very large and there are pictures on almost every page.Brilliant buy for younger readers, (but not too young, the book IS about kidnapping) but my daughter loves it anyway.

My daughter LOVED this. She is 9. She recommends it.

Really enjoyed this little book. Nice illustrations and use of language.Not 100% sure on the kidnapping theme, but it doesn't go into too much depth so not too bad.

Thank you, my daughter gave me 48 hours notice to get this book. Thanks to you I received it the next day and my daughter dodged a detention! ;) x

Good story

An enjoyable read

Excellent

My 11 year old daughter struggles with literacy and yet this is the first proper book has been able to read and understand independently. She was captivated by the story and read it in just two evenings. The text is quite large and well spaced, the pages are not over crowded, the language is straight forward but with a punchy and exciting style, the pages are tinted yellow and there are occasional magazine-style pictures with 'think bubbles' over the characters. All this seemed to help. She is onto her next Barrington Stoke book now and her confidence in literacy is growing.