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Part of the dynamic reading programme Project X, this book is truly boy-friendly. Project X is a reading programme that has been developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations. Each book comes with notes for parent/teaching assistants that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities.
64 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2009
About the author
Jan-Andrew Henderson
66 books35 followers‘One of the UK’s most promising writers’ - Edinburgh Evening News
‘One of the UK’s best talents’ - Lovereading.co.uk
‘Jan Henderson writes the kind of thrillers that make you miss your stop on the bus’
- Times Educational Supplement
‘A moving, funny and original writer’ - The Austin Chronicle
‘Jan Henderson has written some incredible books… One of my favourite authors’
- Sharon Rooney (My Mad Fat Diary. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. Barbie)
‘If there were more books like yours out there, maybe people would be reading more’
- Charlie Higson (Young James Bond and The Enemy series)
Jan-Andrew Henderson (J.A. Henderson) is the author of 45 children’s, teen, YA and adult fiction and non-fiction books - published worldwide by Oxford University Press, Collins, Hardcourt Press, Amberley Books, Oetinger Publishing, Black Hare Press, Random House, Black and White Publishers, Mladá Fronta, Black Hart, Three Ravens and Floris Books. He has been shortlisted for seventeen literary prizes and is the winner of the Doncaster Book Prize, the Aurealis Award and the Royal Mail Award - Britain’s biggest children’s book prize. He features in many anthologies as a contributor and editor and has written plays performed as far apart as Texas, Leeds, New York and the Edinburgh International Festival
He runs Green Light Literary Consultants, is a professional member of the Institute of Professional Editors and an industry assessor and mentor for the Queensland Writers Centre. He has appeared at numerous writing festivals and given talks and workshops for children and adults in conjunction with Literature Live, Authors Abroad, Nexus Arts and Speakers Ink.
Other roles include mentor for the Horror Writers Association and the Australian Horror Writers Association, Secretary for the Romance Writers of Australia, ambassador for Australia Reads, arts reviewer for On the House, peer/grant assessor for the Australian Council for the Arts, convenor for the Aurealis Awards, co-ordinator for the Shadow Awards, script reader for the Scottish Script Service and judge for the Bram Stoker Award, the Robert N Stephenson Prize and QWC’s Publishable competition. He has taught online writing courses for the Romance Writers of Australia Academy, Infostack, Skill Bundles and Authors Crib and been the Writer in Residence for organisations as disparate as Ipswich Kindergarten and The Catholic School, Townsville.
He is the owner of Top Tours and conducts history walks around Brisbane. He is also the founder and owner of Black Hart Entertainment, which runs the world-famous City of the Dead in Edinburgh – the UK’s largest ghost tour company.
‘One of the UK’s best talents’ - Lovereading.co.uk
‘Jan Henderson writes the kind of thrillers that make you miss your stop on the bus’
- Times Educational Supplement
‘A moving, funny and original writer’ - The Austin Chronicle
‘Jan Henderson has written some incredible books… One of my favourite authors’
- Sharon Rooney (My Mad Fat Diary. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. Barbie)
‘If there were more books like yours out there, maybe people would be reading more’
- Charlie Higson (Young James Bond and The Enemy series)
Jan-Andrew Henderson (J.A. Henderson) is the author of 45 children’s, teen, YA and adult fiction and non-fiction books - published worldwide by Oxford University Press, Collins, Hardcourt Press, Amberley Books, Oetinger Publishing, Black Hare Press, Random House, Black and White Publishers, Mladá Fronta, Black Hart, Three Ravens and Floris Books. He has been shortlisted for seventeen literary prizes and is the winner of the Doncaster Book Prize, the Aurealis Award and the Royal Mail Award - Britain’s biggest children’s book prize. He features in many anthologies as a contributor and editor and has written plays performed as far apart as Texas, Leeds, New York and the Edinburgh International Festival
He runs Green Light Literary Consultants, is a professional member of the Institute of Professional Editors and an industry assessor and mentor for the Queensland Writers Centre. He has appeared at numerous writing festivals and given talks and workshops for children and adults in conjunction with Literature Live, Authors Abroad, Nexus Arts and Speakers Ink.
Other roles include mentor for the Horror Writers Association and the Australian Horror Writers Association, Secretary for the Romance Writers of Australia, ambassador for Australia Reads, arts reviewer for On the House, peer/grant assessor for the Australian Council for the Arts, convenor for the Aurealis Awards, co-ordinator for the Shadow Awards, script reader for the Scottish Script Service and judge for the Bram Stoker Award, the Robert N Stephenson Prize and QWC’s Publishable competition. He has taught online writing courses for the Romance Writers of Australia Academy, Infostack, Skill Bundles and Authors Crib and been the Writer in Residence for organisations as disparate as Ipswich Kindergarten and The Catholic School, Townsville.
He is the owner of Top Tours and conducts history walks around Brisbane. He is also the founder and owner of Black Hart Entertainment, which runs the world-famous City of the Dead in Edinburgh – the UK’s largest ghost tour company.
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