Grace Griffin’s family have an important job. They are the wardens of a map that shows their entire country of Moreland. If anyone needs help across this map, they can contact the Griffin family via red phone boxes in their town. If it’s an emergency, a red light appears on the map. If it’s a theft or a mystery, then a blue light will appear.

Grace, at only 13, attends to the blue lights, and her mum and brother Bren attend to the emergencies. All of them have been very busy as lights are popping up all over Moreland. Grace has been responding to many little reports of theft. A jar of jam, a roll of wire, a loaf of bread or other small items.

When she investigates the common clues are related to birds, but how can that be? Besides her own robot raven named Watson, birds can’t open doors and why would they steal wire? She and Watson decide to do a stake out in a small town and discover much more than they were imagining, and even solve the problem of how busy they have all been lately.

A mystery, small crimes, portals and puffins, The Puffin Portal is another in this illustrated series about The Griffin family and their amazing map. Grace has been keen to get in on the action, but has been too young to be a qualified warden.

Now she has proven herself to attend the smaller crimes, she finds herself with a puzzling problem that leads to a castle ruin. Intriguing read and perfect for reluctant readers.

Author – Vashti Hardy

Illustrator – Natalie Smillie

Dyslexic Read – Reading Age 8 / Interest Age 8-12

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(2021, Series, Mystery, Dyslexic, Intrigue, Secret, Robot, Family, Responsibility, Theft, Crime, Reluctant Reader, Fantasy)