Sam Bartram’s Underground Escapade, the second Peter and Millie Adventure, is a fast, funny story for 10 year olds about two friends in London for a medal, and a criminal who’s just been broken out of prison.<\/p>\n
Peter and Millie are thirteen, and they’re at Buckingham Palace to receive the George Medal from the Queen. On Millie’s Scottish island of Orsk, they helped bring down a smuggling gang.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t go smoothly. Millie is so nervous she calls the Queen ‘jam’ and faints (nearly squashing a corgi). Within minutes the video has gone viral!<\/p>\n
Then the news comes on in the curry house. Derek Mooney, the man behind the gang, has escaped from a prison van. The police promise he’ll be nowhere near London. Peter has a big relay final at Crystal Palace the next day, so the plan is to run and then go straight home.<\/p>\n
Of course, it isn’t that simple. Peter thinks he spots a familiar face in the crowd.<\/p>\n
Peter tells it himself, and he’s chatty and a little bit full of himself (in a nice way). He’s always stopping to tell you something about his dad’s timekeeping or the worst hotel bed in London. Millie is brilliant. Loud, fierce, very Scottish (‘This isnae a bad place!’) and completely herself, even in the National Gallery.<\/p>\n
The athletics is a real highlight. The relay is written with so much energy that your reader will be holding their breath on every leg.<\/p>\n
There’s a sweet thread about friendship too. Peter gets oddly jealous when his teammate Du’ane flirts with Millie, and he can’t quite work out why.<\/p>\n
It’s worth being aware that this book refers back to the first Peter and Millie adventure a lot. Peter’s best friend Finny has died, Millie was once kidnapped, and there was a plane crash. The escaped criminal has convictions for murder and kidnapping. It’s all told lightly, but it’s there.<\/p>\n
If the London setting is the appeal, The Secret of Platform 13 has a secret door under King’s Cross station that opens for just nine days every nine years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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