TARANTULA TIDE

 

THE KELPIE'S AWARD WINNING CHILDREN'S NOVEL FOR AGE 8+

 

 

 

 

 


Smugglers. Vikings. Shetland should be fascinating place for

 a holiday, but Jack is harbouring a secret and is less than 

enthusiastic to be there.

 

 

 


Then he meets Izzie and her exotic pets and things 

get a lot more interesting: Jack finds an unexpected visitor

underneath the fridge; the wandering man is not what he 

seems, and each night a mysterious person waits on the 

beach outside Jack's cottage. But what do all these have to 

do with an unusual visitor named Octavia?

 

Jack and Izzie find themselves in the middle of a

 dangerous adventure, wondering what the next tide will 

bring to the land of the Viking Fire Festival. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REVIEWS FOR TARANTULA TIDE

 

 

 

 


Jack's summer holiday gets off to a rocky start when he tosses his cookies all over a biker dude's boots on the ferry ride to the most un-glamorous vacation spot on earth, the Shetland Islands far away in the North Sea.
       "Who wants to go to Shetland anyway?" Jack grumbles to his Mum. From the moment he makes his wobbly landing in chilly Lerwick, Jack's vacation is anything but dull. His next door neighbor Izzie has barely introduced herself when they find a rare Mexican red-kneed tarantula under the refrigerator in his cottage. To Jack's horror and amazement, she calmly picks up the spider and leads him to her super secret Izzie-zoo containing Bombina the Oriental fire-bellied toad and Karma the chameleon. Discovering how this exotic creature came to live in a shed in Izzie's backyard takes these two fast friends on a trail that leads to dangerous smugglers. Along the way Jack also discovers that before he can truly get on with his life he must unlock the painful secret he brought with him.

 

 

From the ancient brochs, to the gorgeous wild ponies, to the enormous skuas, the raw splendor of the Shetland Islands comes alive in this mystery. Treganza brilliantly harnesses the charm of wonder of this magical setting and wraps it around an exciting adventure. Young readers will be easily drawn into solving the puzzle with Jack and Izzie.  2009 by Peggy Tibbetts (children's author)

 

 

 

  'A fast-paced whodunnit ... the denouement is mighty good.'   Mary Blance, BBC Radio.

 

 

 

 

When one expects Vikings and barbarians and simply finds civilization, you'd expect to be underwhelmed. "Tarantula Tide" follows Jack as he finds himself vacationing in Shetland, a land with a history far more interesting than its present. When he meets Izzie, his vacation suddenly turns strange, as Jack's own private secrets may soon come to light. "Tarantula Tide" is a unique children's mystery, sure to please young adult readers. 

 

2009 By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  'This is Enid Blyton with iPods and lashings of coke. Sharon Tregenza takes all that is good about classic action books for children and gives us a modern version set in Shetland. If any teachers are reading this - it would make a great class text too.' --Valerie Watt - The Shetland Times.

 

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