Pull Out All the Stops! Award-winning author by Geraldine McCaughrean (author) (UK edition)

Cissy and Kookie are steaming headlong into adventure when they leap aboard the Bright Lights Showboat, joining its motley crew of actors, inventors, teachers, preachers, barbers, dogs and performers! Together they paddle up the Missouri River, putting on plays and entertainments for the towns along the shores – while having daring adventures and beating hustlers at their own game. But sometimes, on the muddy and treacherous Missouri, danger levels rise too high even for the resourceful Bright Lights crew. Then only the bravest and grandest in the land can hope to stop the final curtain from falling… From the brilliant and ever-inventive Geraldine McCaughrean, this brand new adventure really does pull out all the stops!

“With a huge and original cast and a never ending supply of witty and original incident, this is a thoroughly enjoyable story from an award-winning writer.” Julia Eccleshare, www.lovereading4kids.co.uk

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780192789969

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.7; Middle years; 11.0 points

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher. She attended Christ Church College of Education but instead of teaching chose to work for a magazine publishing house. Her favourite assignments included the best-selling children’s partworks Storyteller and Little Storyteller. Only in 1988 did she become a full-time writer. Since then, Geraldine has established herself as one of the most exciting children’s writer’s today.

She often visits nearby schools to talk about being a writer and play story-making games, and, of course, to find out what the really important people – the readers – are thinking.

In 2004, the Great Ormond Street Hospital trustees launched the search for an author to write the sequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic children’s novel Peter Pan. Geraldine was chosen from over 200 applicants, and Peter Pan in Scarlet became a bestseller in 2006.

Geraldine and her husband John live in Berkshire and have one teenage daughter, Ailsa. In all, Geraldine has written over 140 books, mostly for children, as well as plays and poetry, and has been published in 25 languages.