Cogheart

For our final guided reading book of the year, we have been delving into the award-winning debut children's novel Cogheart by Peter Bunzl. The front cover intrigued us, but it was the blurb that really got our pulses racing.

You can read the blurb which you can read below:

Cogheart by Peter Bunzl
Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat.

Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her?

With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart...

Alexia: "I like the way that the book is fictional but uses real places because it makes it feel like it is actually happening!"

Matilda: "I really want to know what is in the envelope that Lily's father left for her. It must be something important for it to be his final wish before he vanished."

Muhammad: "It's interesting that this book is set in the past, but people had mechanicals to help them, when this is what our future could end up like!"