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  • Published: 18 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241436769
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $17.99

Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor



A hilarious illustrated young fiction series about Leonora, a young inventor who is Amelia Fang meets Rosie Revere.

Orphaned Leonora lives on a remote island, spending her days making crazy cool inventions. When a strange boy called Jack washes up on an inflatable lobster and reveals that her evil Uncle Luther has been stealing her inventions and selling them on the mainland, it begins a bonkers and brilliant adventure - complete with a furry otter, a singing sea captain, and a very secret society...

  • Published: 18 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241436769
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $17.99

About the author

Lucy Brandt

Lucy Brandt is a mum of two young kids and lives and works in Brighton. She has worked for nearly twenty years in a variety of traditional and digital marketing roles, largely specialising in technology - she has poured her techological knowledge into the inventions she created for her debut novel Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor.

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Praise for Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor

Favourite scenes include a ride in a hot air balloon, suspended from a wonderful variety of inflatables, and another in the stinkiest cave in fiction. Lots of fun, this is one to recommend to readers who like their adventures wild, wacky and full of invention(s).

LoveReading4Kids

Fizzing with fun, friendship and fabulous inventions!

Maria Kuzniar

Adventure, humour, bold illustrations and manageable text make this an ideal book for reading aloud or reading alone.

Toppsta review

Warm, funny and with plenty for parents to enjoy too.

The Scottish Sun

A hilariously silly adventure for 7+, full of fishy foodstuffs and ingenious gadgets.

The Guardian

Great to have a female STEM lead in this joyous story about a young inventor who has to use all her considerable brain power to defeat her villainous uncle.

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