Invisible!

This is an old fashioned barnstorming yarn in typical Swindells' style: an everyday setting in which fantastic events lead to a set of vigorously paced adventures culminating in a grand cliff hanging finale. Here the action is triggered off by a New Age traveller child (Rosie Walk, who has a friend called Peter Rabbit and parents called Mummy and Daddy Bear) sharing the secret of acquiring invisibility with a group of schoolfriends. At first this gift promises merely fresh scope for mischief, but the children soon become embroiled in the activities of a local criminal who also happens to be the school bully's dad. The climax involves a confrontation in the darkness of an old ice house, with a dashing young rock star riding to the rescue. In short, pure hokum, but spiced with sufficient panache to make you and your reluctant readers want to keep turning the pages.