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The Headless Ghost: an illustrated spooky mystery adventure for kids, by footballer Marcus Rashford!
Can Marcus and the Breakfast Club Investigators solve the mystery of the headless ghost haunting their school play?
Join Marcus and friends in The Breakfast Club The Headless Ghost, the fifth exciting book in the series by England International footballer and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE. Inspired by Marcus's own experiences growing up!
There’s only a week to go before the school play when things start going wrong in rehearsals. Sets crash over, lights go on and off and the fog machine has a mind of its own. There are rumours that a headless ghost has been haunting the dressing rooms and ruining rehearsals with its ear splitting screech.
Marcus and his friends must work together to solve the mystery before opening night. The show must go on, so it’s a good thing the Breakfast Club Investigators never give up!
Written with Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie and packed with tons of illustrations by Marta Kissi, The Headless Ghost is the perfect book for children aged 8+.
Join the Breakfast Club Investigators on more adventures in The Goblin's Revenge and The Movie Monster!
Join Marcus and friends in The Breakfast Club The Headless Ghost, the fifth exciting book in the series by England International footballer and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE. Inspired by Marcus's own experiences growing up!
There’s only a week to go before the school play when things start going wrong in rehearsals. Sets crash over, lights go on and off and the fog machine has a mind of its own. There are rumours that a headless ghost has been haunting the dressing rooms and ruining rehearsals with its ear splitting screech.
Marcus and his friends must work together to solve the mystery before opening night. The show must go on, so it’s a good thing the Breakfast Club Investigators never give up!
Written with Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie and packed with tons of illustrations by Marta Kissi, The Headless Ghost is the perfect book for children aged 8+.
Join the Breakfast Club Investigators on more adventures in The Goblin's Revenge and The Movie Monster!
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Published October 10, 2024
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September 18, 2024
This has Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine vibes, with a couple of good, non-didactic lessons.
This is my first read at 55yo of the BCI (Breakfast Club Investigators) series. It has a decent tale that reminded me of good old Scooby Doo mysteries, and with enough in the way of red herrings, though it still made me suspect that a certain someone mentioned twice might be part of the mystery. But, I was wrong, indirectly, even when certain missing things were not quite casually enough mentioned, making a certainperson stand out. It did also make me wonder if there might be truth in the supposed ghost's history that was revealed, like in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode where the ghosts of a teacher and student haunt the library.
It's nicely written, and though Marcus is a tad bigged-up, of course 😉, but the other kids get credit too. There's life lessons from Marcus's mum, and having 'encountered' them both IRL, I can actually picture her giving him these lessons, in a factual and constructive way, which he's put into the book. There's respect, speaking up, fairness and taking ownership of your actions all portrayed, but not done to knock anyone, and not didactically. I think if IRL kids could consider others' viewpoints, motivations and explanations, we really could have a kinder world.
ARC courtesy of Macmillan Children's Books and NetGalley for my reading pleasure.
This is my first read at 55yo of the BCI (Breakfast Club Investigators) series. It has a decent tale that reminded me of good old Scooby Doo mysteries, and with enough in the way of red herrings, though it still made me suspect that a certain someone mentioned twice might be part of the mystery. But, I was wrong, indirectly, even when certain missing things were not quite casually enough mentioned, making a certainperson stand out. It did also make me wonder if there might be truth in the supposed ghost's history that was revealed, like in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode where the ghosts of a teacher and student haunt the library.
It's nicely written, and though Marcus is a tad bigged-up, of course 😉, but the other kids get credit too. There's life lessons from Marcus's mum, and having 'encountered' them both IRL, I can actually picture her giving him these lessons, in a factual and constructive way, which he's put into the book. There's respect, speaking up, fairness and taking ownership of your actions all portrayed, but not done to knock anyone, and not didactically. I think if IRL kids could consider others' viewpoints, motivations and explanations, we really could have a kinder world.
ARC courtesy of Macmillan Children's Books and NetGalley for my reading pleasure.
April 14, 2025
This was a very odd mystery job indeed for the breakfast club and it certainly did have me in a deep thinking mood at some points of the book which was so hard not to keep listening to.
Again choice of plot and characters were all again good in this book a mean this mystery is properly my favourite one out of them all.
Can't wait to see if they will do anymore from the breakfast club as a would like to listen or read more from them.
Again choice of plot and characters were all again good in this book a mean this mystery is properly my favourite one out of them all.
Can't wait to see if they will do anymore from the breakfast club as a would like to listen or read more from them.
December 14, 2025
Another fun, if slightly farfetched tale - my child guessed what was happening fairly early on!
February 19, 2025
The newest The Breakfast Club Adventures and this time a play, a ghost, and hopefully friendship!
I am so excited about this series and I am delighted that this one is getting more and more books! I cannot wait to see what the next mystery will be! This book was also a lot of fun, though I do hope that in the next book the suspect/whodunnit is a bit less clear. I know I am an adult, but even kids should have seen it coming. Haha.
But let’s start with the good stuff!
🥰 The cover is a lot of fun! I love seeing our crew on it and a spooky entity behind them, lurking, waiting!
🥰 The play was such a fun thing and while I am not big on standing on stage, I would have loved to be part of it. I mean, a spooky ghost mystery/adventure type of play? Sign me up! Way more fun then your classical plays.
🥰 I love that the school allowed a student to write a play and run with it! I am definitely curious what more this person can write.
🥰 Love seeing Marcus pop up as a great salesman when he took over the ticket selling. I mean, that kid can sell cars if he wants to, haha. He is just that smooth and good at getting people to buy. Even when things were not looking up and people were scared of the play? Well, even then he managed to sell some tickets. And when he fully went for it in the later parts dang, well, those people didn’t have a chance against salesman Marcus, haha.
🥰 I loved the spookiness of the book, there is a lot of things happening and while I did know what was going on I was still fully invested and spooked out! The ghost and all the noises were definitely terrifying.
🥰 Stacy not being obsessed with her supernatural crap, or at least not at first, that just made me happy. Though now she had an another issue, haha. Will talk about that in the meh part of the review.
🥰 The illustrations dotted throughout the book! The style is just so much fun and it really captures the spooky moments.
🥰 Some extra love for Marcus’ mom who knows when her boy needs a good talk and a better hug.
🤔 So great that Stacy is not obsessed with her supernatural stuff… not so great with how she treated people in the play. She was just rude. Harsh. Over the top. I get that she wanted to get a great play, but this is not the way to go.
🤔 I knew the whodunnit from pretty much the start. Too many hints that hinted to that person. It is a shame because I would have rather liked a whodunnit that is more a puzzle than a bright rainbow sign pointing a clear arrow at someone.
🤔 While I get that Marcus is insecure about things, and yes his club friends were distracted, it did get on my nerves as this was the exact same plot in the previous book and that was just solved. It seems that Marcus still doesn’t get it and that makes me sad.
But all in all, I am delighted to have read this fabulous and fun book in the series. Yes, the whodunnit was way too easy, but thankfully there were other parts that made it all worth it and I just flew right through the book! I cannot wait to see what is next~
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
I am so excited about this series and I am delighted that this one is getting more and more books! I cannot wait to see what the next mystery will be! This book was also a lot of fun, though I do hope that in the next book the suspect/whodunnit is a bit less clear. I know I am an adult, but even kids should have seen it coming. Haha.
But let’s start with the good stuff!
🥰 The cover is a lot of fun! I love seeing our crew on it and a spooky entity behind them, lurking, waiting!
🥰 The play was such a fun thing and while I am not big on standing on stage, I would have loved to be part of it. I mean, a spooky ghost mystery/adventure type of play? Sign me up! Way more fun then your classical plays.
🥰 I love that the school allowed a student to write a play and run with it! I am definitely curious what more this person can write.
🥰 Love seeing Marcus pop up as a great salesman when he took over the ticket selling. I mean, that kid can sell cars if he wants to, haha. He is just that smooth and good at getting people to buy. Even when things were not looking up and people were scared of the play? Well, even then he managed to sell some tickets. And when he fully went for it in the later parts dang, well, those people didn’t have a chance against salesman Marcus, haha.
🥰 I loved the spookiness of the book, there is a lot of things happening and while I did know what was going on I was still fully invested and spooked out! The ghost and all the noises were definitely terrifying.
🥰 Stacy not being obsessed with her supernatural crap, or at least not at first, that just made me happy. Though now she had an another issue, haha. Will talk about that in the meh part of the review.
🥰 The illustrations dotted throughout the book! The style is just so much fun and it really captures the spooky moments.
🥰 Some extra love for Marcus’ mom who knows when her boy needs a good talk and a better hug.
🤔 So great that Stacy is not obsessed with her supernatural stuff… not so great with how she treated people in the play. She was just rude. Harsh. Over the top. I get that she wanted to get a great play, but this is not the way to go.
🤔 I knew the whodunnit from pretty much the start. Too many hints that hinted to that person. It is a shame because I would have rather liked a whodunnit that is more a puzzle than a bright rainbow sign pointing a clear arrow at someone.
🤔 While I get that Marcus is insecure about things, and yes his club friends were distracted, it did get on my nerves as this was the exact same plot in the previous book and that was just solved. It seems that Marcus still doesn’t get it and that makes me sad.
But all in all, I am delighted to have read this fabulous and fun book in the series. Yes, the whodunnit was way too easy, but thankfully there were other parts that made it all worth it and I just flew right through the book! I cannot wait to see what is next~
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
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