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  • Published: 7 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781760890735
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $21.00

Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective

The bestselling detective series




Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl!

The eagerly awaited new series from the author of the bestselling Nanny Piggins series.

When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery she uses the reward money to send herself to the most exclusive boarding school in the country, Highcrest Academy.

On arrival, Friday is shocked to discover the respectable school is actually a hotbed of crime. She's soon investigating everything from disappearing homework to the Yeti running around the school swamp. That’s when she’s not dealing with her own problem – Ian Wainscott, the handsomest boy in school, who inexplicably hates Friday and loves nasty pranks.

Can Friday solve Highcrest Academy’s many strange mysteries, including the biggest mystery of all – what’s the point of high school?

  • Published: 7 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781760890735
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $21.00

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About the author

R.A. Spratt

R.A. Spratt was born in the UK and lived in Dursley, Gloucestershire – a town immortalised by Harry Potter’s deeply unpleasant relatives – until she was two years old. Then, like many ambitious English people cursed with regional accents so strong no other British person can take them seriously, her family moved to Australia.

The tedium of growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney was fertiliser to the growth of R.A.’s imagination. The only thing for a kid to do was get on a bicycle and go to the library, so R.A. Spratt did just that. Once there, she read everything, devouring the books of Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Robin Klein and Judy Blume, and audiotapes of Shakespeare productions and Sherlock Holmes dramatisations. And so, her young mind was formed, and set on the path of becoming the extraordinary author she is today.

Now based in Bowral NSW, she's the bestselling writer of dozens of absurd and witty books including Friday Barnes, The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, The Peski Kids and the Shockingly and Astonishingly Good Stories collections. Her podcast, Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt, has had over 4 million downloads and connects R.A. with story-lovers across the globe.

For more information, visit raspratt.com

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Praise for Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective

Proving that it's better to be smart than popular, Friday Barnes is a wonderful heroine for the modern child.

Beth Bowerman, NetGalley

Readers, particularly girls, of about 10 plus will greatly enjoy this fun read.

Sue Warren, OZ-TLnet

Spratt is a master at bringing characters to life, and knowing just what older primary and early high school kids want to read.

Susan Stephenson, The Book Chook

Spratt’s effortlessly funny narration will keep readers laughing from start to finish, and she gives Friday a wonderfully dry wit—one she isn’t even aware of herself—to accompany her exceptional deductive powers and knowledge.

Publishers Weekly US, Publishers Weekly US

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