Zilombo - Softcover

Gates, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848531710 ISBN 13: 9781848531710

Publisher: Tamarind Books, 2016

Synopsis

Something strange is going on by the slimy river Oozeburn. But Jay is the only one who knows. The ancient predator Zilombo is loose and has snatched Jin’s baby brother. When Mizz Z, a secret agent, arrives to investigate, the race is on to save him. But the beast’s mysterious powers are evolving. She’s getting stronger. As Jin, his sister Frankie and Mizz Z make their plans, Zilombo grows hungrier...

About this title

About the Author:

S.P. Gates was born in Grimsby, England. Her dad is a musician and her mum was a tailor. Before she became a full-time writer she lived and worked in Malawi, Africa, then taught in schools in Coventry and County Durham in England. She has written more than 100 books for children. Many of which have won prizes, including twice overall winner of the Sheffield Children's Book Award, commended for the Carnegie Medal and Highly Commended for the Nasen Special Educational Needs Award. She's diversified a lot in children's writing (she likes a new challenge) and has written plays, poems, picture books, books for reluctant readers, novels for teenagers, comedy, thrillers, comedy/thrillers, historical novels - and even once a series of books about grammar for schools. If she hadn't been a writer, she'd like to have been a professional guitarist like her father, who is still gigging at 88 years old!

About this edition

• Publisher: Tamarind Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1848531710
• ISBN 13: 9781848531710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240