Flick is visiting Jonathan at the Strangeworlds Travel Agency when he receives a magical message. A golden orb
appears from the keyhole of a trunk. It widens and becomes a scroll, unfurling to reveal a letter. The Pirate Queen from a land called The Break is summoning Jonathan to a meeting. Something terrible is happening to their watery world.
Despite the worry of upsetting her parents again (she’d been away from home for a day and a half in her last adventure with Strangeworlds), Flick decides she wants to help if she can. Jonathon’s cousin Avery also tags along, much to Flick’s annoyance.
The Break is a world full of pirates, merpeople that look nothing like the mermaids in movies, and even more pirates. There may be a rivalry between these groups but they all agree on one thing. Their world is rapidly shrinking.
Flick, Jonathan and Avery are keen to help, but this rivalry has trapped them in The Break. The first thing they have to do is find their way home. While they meet, negotiate and placate pirates, they are trying to work out a solution. The pirates live onboard their ships and their ocean home is bursting with all kinds of sea life. They will all need a new similar home to move to. The pirates want to keep their ships and some of the sea creatures are bigger than a whale.
The Strangeworlds crew are stumped. Even if they can get back, and then find a suitable new home for The Break inhabitants, how on earth are they going to be able to fit them all through a suitcase? Some will have to be left behind to die with their world, but Flick is determined to save them all.
No.2 in The Strangeworlds Travel Agency series, Flick and Jonathan, with the help of his distant cousin, dive into a new adventure. This time it’s an ocean world called The Break which is shrinking by the day. Meeting pirates, planning getaways, negotiating with merpeople and dealing with a devastating piece of news, challenge these travel ‘agents’ even more than their first adventure into magical suitcases.
Again, a world and its creatures are relying on them to save their lives. Flick must dig deep to find a solution.
Pressure to solve the problem, help her friend Jonathan, and be home by dinnertime, drives the characters and the story rapidly towards a knife edge ending. Along the way, Jonathan and Flick learn astounding things about family members and Flick makes a new friend she fervently hopes to see again soon.
No. 3 in the series will reveal even more of these intriguing story threads. Can’t wait!
Author – L D Lapinski
Age – 9+
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