There's a Beast in the Basement!

Mokyklos detektyvai #10

by Pamela Butchart, Thomas Flintham (Illustrator)

Chaos and mayhem reign as Izzy and her friends take on another hilarious (mis)adventure. There's no such thing as an ordinary day at school when they're around... Izzy and her friends overhear their head teacher talking about "missing treasure" and "running out of time". They know this means there's TREASURE buried in the school somewhere and that Mr Graves wants it all for himself. So Jodi says they've got to find it first, and they should start by searching the staffroom. After seeing things they will never forget, they head to the basement. Gary Petrie's dad is working down there and he's seen something SHINY! So they send Zach's cat down with a camera strapped to her head and study the footage carefully. What they see is SHOCKING and CHANGES EVERYTHING. It's not treasure in the basement, it's a BEAST with SHINING EYES and it's coming to get them! RUN!!!

Genres: Childrens, Fiction

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 12, 2023

About the author

As a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of spooky and weird things happened (well, in her imagination at least). As a student, Pamela’s student jobs included: fishwife, teaching basketball in America, phlebotomist and Artist Liaison for a (really bad) Abba tribute band. Now, when she’s not writing or going out and about meeting readers, Pamela teaches philosophy to teenagers.

Her top selling stories include The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which won the Blue Peter Best Story Award and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat which won The Children’s Book Award. Two of her books, Petunia Peri and There’s a Werewolf in My Tent, were shortlisted for the Lollies – the Laugh Out Loud Awards.

Pamela lives in Dundee with her baby boy and their two awesome cats, Bear & Carlos. If she wasn’t working as a writer and a teacher she’d like to open a luxury hotel for stray cats.

Reviews

[Abigail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good but a bit too easy for me

[Mary Pimbblet · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read the complete series of these books to date, with my eight year old daughter, and she's loved them all. This is another fun story, and I loved the conclusions the children came to trying to solve the mystery of the beast in the basement by themselves.

[Mia]

When you've run out of books to read on holiday.

[Esmay · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these books

[Queen Juleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!!!! I LOVE these books.

[Steph · Rating 4 out of 5]

My kids had asked me to get hold of a few more of these. Really enjoyed this. Mishearing can cause lots of problems when you’re 10. Really fun

[Evie Kilgallon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I quite liked this book

[Kitchen Sink Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have you been into any basements recently? If you’re even thinking about it this may be the book to read first - to be prepared of course!

Hilarious, not really that scary and packed full of adventure the author once again makes the humdrum ordinary of school become extraordinary with Izzy her friends and their (mis)adventures!

[MisterT · Rating 4 out of 5]

Made me feel like an actual primary schooler for 200 plus pages. I felt like I was just part of the gang listening intently to the juiciest story and eager to be part of what happens next.

Although the story became somewhat obvious this still managed to capture perfectly the wild and vivid imagination of kids.

Each character felt very distinct too.