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Major and Mynah: Tarantula Terror

By Karen Owen
Series: Major and Mynah
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SPUD – the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives are back, and they have another mystery to solve. When Callie, Grace and Bo discover that a tarantula has escaped from the local wildlife park, they must find the spider and reunite her with her spiderlings before she dies... Read More
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When Callie, Grace and Bo discover that a tarantula has escaped from the wildlife park, they must find the spider and reunite her with her spiderlings, before she dies from the cold. Can Callie’s magical hearing aids and mynah bird Bo help find the missing creature before it’s too late?

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SPUD – the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives are back, and they have another mystery to solve.

When Callie, Grace and Bo discover that a tarantula has escaped from the local wildlife park, they must find the spider and reunite her with her spiderlings before she dies from the cold.

Can Callie’s magical hearing aids and mynah bird Bo, as the SPUD team’s Spy in the Sky, help to find the missing creature before it’s too late?

Major and Mynah: Tarantula Terror is an exciting adventure full of suspense and intrigue. Join the SPUD team as they embark on their race against time!

Series: Major and Mynah

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  • Major and Mynah
    Join SPUD, the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives, on their first fast-paced detective adventure. Getting your first hearing aids can be nerve-wracking; especially when you have to wear them to school. When Callie realises her new hearing aids – 'the Slugs' – give her the unique ability to communicate with Bo the Mynah bird, some of her worries are lifted. In...
    By Karen Owen
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  • Major and Mynah: Tarantula Terror
    Major and Mynah: Tarantula Terror
    SPUD – the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives are back, and they have another mystery to solve. When Callie, Grace and Bo discover that a tarantula has escaped from the local wildlife park, they must find the spider and reunite her with her spiderlings before she dies from the cold. Can Callie’s magical hearing aids and mynah bird Bo, as the...
    By Karen Owen
    Paperback
    $1999
    Available
    Ships in 4-6 weeks

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781915444431

Publisher: Firefly Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 February 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Firefly Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Louise Forshaw

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 350g

Pages: 176

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Karen Owen Series: Major and Mynah Young Adult

About the Author

Karen Owen has been partially deaf since childhood, and wrote the character Callie in Major and Mynah to reflect who she wanted to be when she was younger – funny, clever and with a special gift to hear something that other people cannot.
Karen currently lives in London.

Louise Forshaw has illustrated over fifty children’s books. When she’s not drawing, Louise loves watching animated films, adding to her overflowing ‘to be read’ pile.
Louise lives just outside Newcastle upon Tyne.
 

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