Twelve Minutes to Midnight (Twelve Minutes to Midnight Trilogy)

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Penny Tredwell is the owner and author of The Penny Dreadful, a successful magazine in Victorian London - but she's also a thirteen year old girl, which poses some problems. She hires an actor to bring her pseudonym, Montgomery Flinch, to life, but soon the two of them become wrapped up in a deadly mystery that will take all Penny's investigative talents to solve. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - as yet another peal of applause rang out from the audience to acclaim the young girl’s words. In the front row, the journalist was still struggling to make himself heard. He glared at the girl, a gleam of recognition in his gaze, but his voice was lost in the tumultuous ovation.

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Twelve Minutes to Midnight by Christopher Edge - review

Christopher Edge is an writer, freelance publisher and education consultant as well as an accomplished author of children's books. Note: I gave this book a full review because this book was published by Albert Whitman and Company. Edge writes in a style that meshes nicely with this type of story. He writes in a manner that is suspenseful, without being too scary or intimidating. His writing is also easy to read and understand. Another aspect that I liked about his writing style is that he doesn't hesitate to use a few words that kids might not be as familiar with, yet it was easy to tell within the context what the words meant.Despite that, new films have still found their way onto our screens and Eddie Izzard’s latest project, Six Minutes to Midnight, is fast-approaching. Penelope Tredwell is a thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of the bestselling magazine, The Penny Dreadful. Her masterly tales of the macabre are gripping Victorian Britain, even if no one knows she's the real author. One day a letter she receives from the governor of the notorious Bedlam madhouse plunges her into an adventure more terrifying than anything she ever imagined. Overall, I could not warm-up to the protagonist, could not buy into many of the plot points, and thought that the ending was somewhat absurd. I am unsure if I would read other books in this series; first books often have bugs to be worked out. I would not actively look more up but might sign book 2 out from the library if I came across it while looking for a bit of brain candy... Set in 1939 and loosely based on true events, the film tells the story of Thomas Miller (Izzard), a teacher who is sent to work at a boarding school on England’s south coast which plays host to 20 German girls, the daughters of affluent Nazi German families. Step into the past to discover a thrilling mystery about a sinister plot to shape and control the future, in this spine-tingling historical adventure from award-winning author Christopher Edge.