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  • Published: 31 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241622100
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $21.00

Leonora Bolt: The Great Gadget Games



The 4th book in the hilariously funny young fiction series, Leonora Bolt.

The fourth hilarious book in the brilliant STEM adventure series Leonora Bolt. With glorious illustrations by Gladys Jose throughout.

It's Leonora first ever Christmas on Crabby Island!

Among homemade presents made out of recycled junk and boiled cabbage candy canes, she finds a mysterious invitation to a new, global invention competition: The Great Gadget Games.

The ho-ho-host is her evil Uncle Luther, and the judges are Harry and Eliza Bolt. . .Leonora's kidnapped parents!

Leonora HAS to enter and WIN the competition - it's got to be her best ever chance to finally rescue mum and dad, and foil Luther's schemes once and for all!

All she needs is her imagination, a foolproof disguise, and help from some fellow young inventors.

Violet Baudelaire meets Peanut Jones in this epic STEM-themed adventure about believing in your brainpower - and yourself.

  • Published: 31 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241622100
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $21.00

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: The Great Gadget Games

Praise for Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor: A hilariously silly adventure for 7+

The Guardian

Praise for Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor: Fizzing with fun, friendship and fabulous inventions!

Maria Kuzniar

Praise for Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor: a laugh-out-loud adventure...Warm, funny and with plenty for parents to enjoy too

The Sun

Praise for Leonora Bolt: Deep Sea Calamity: Another exciting adventure, packed with fun, thrills and gadgets galore...hugely entertaining and thoroughly inventive

LoveReading4Kids

Praise for Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor: Great to have a female STEM lead in this joyous story about a young inventor

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