Alex Shearer

Fergal is a self-confessed nerd with an eccentric hobby: tin collecting. He likes the lucky dip aspect of buying tins that have their labels missing. he innocently opens up a tin to find... a bloodied human finger. His next tin discovery is a note with the word 'Help'. From here, with the help of his friend Charlotte, they are are kidnapped and unwittingly are forced into working in a canning factory that produces pet food. A good read for intermediate children.

I really likes this book. I believe that chocolates and sweets are the childhood for most of us, and sweets are the cure for most of us sometimes in life. When the sweets are being banned. Who would save the day? Smiler and Huntley.

Sea Legs is a great chapter book about twin brothers Eric and Clive who have a father who's widowed and he's a steward on a cruise ship. They're father leaves again for a cruise and the twins decide to go with him! They get stowed away and they decide that they're going to have an amazing three weeks. They just have to stay out of their dad's sight as well as not getting into too much trouble.

Quirky little mystery. I will never look at canned food the same way again!