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Kid Detectives: The Hair-raising Rollercoaster Mystery

By Adam Bushnell
Series: Kid Detectives
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Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem-solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills. Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are visiting a theme park with Mohammad's aunt Ghazala to celebrate her new rollercoaster design... Read More
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Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills

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Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem-solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.

Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are visiting a theme park with Mohammad's aunt Ghazala to celebrate her new rollercoaster design when they notice posters for a ride that looks almost identical! Did someone steal Aunt Ghazala's design? Does it have something to do with that suspicious-looking man?

Join the Detective gang as they work the case, and learn from a mechanical engineer how rollercoasters are constructed and what gravity has to do with it.

Featured interactive elements:

  • Search and find clues in the illustrations
  • Gather crucial information from info panels about materials, gravity and forces
  • Work out the best design for the first rollercoaster drop
  • Match the labels to the correct rollercoaster section

Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.

Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526330277

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wayland

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by John Haslam
  • Illustrated by John Haslam

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 166.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 224g

Pages: 32

Collections

Adam Bushnell Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Series: Kid Detectives Young Adult Young Adult Mystery & Thriller

About the Author

Adam Bushnell (Author)

Adam is a former teacher who turned his hand to writing full time in 2007. He has written both adult teaching guides and children's fiction books and is often touring schools and libraries and running creative writing sessions. He lives in Durham.

John Haslam (Illustrator)

John Haslam has been working as an illustrator for most of his professional life. John worked in advertising for 10 years and worked on various projects including TV storyboards, to illustrating for all kinds of accounts from Pritt Stick (the Pritt Stick Man was his invention), to comic pages such as Danger Mouse, Disney and Transformers.

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