Original title: Stop Secret. Kuralätäkön kummitus
Author: Ilona Ahti
Illustrator: Miila Westin
Published: 2024
Publisher: FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
Genre: Middle Grade (8-12 Years)
Pages: 144
Part of a series: Stop Secret Mysteries
Reading material:
English sample & synopsis, Finnish edition
A funny middle-grade mystery series for fans of Roald Dahl.
✓ Book #1 won the Runeberg Junior Honorary Prize 2024!
✓ Miila Westin is a Finlandia Junior Prize winning illustrator (2020) and her books have been sold into 14 languages!
✓ Ilona Ahti is an award-winning TV and film script writer and co-writer of the film Girl Picture, which won the Sunday Film Festival Audience Award and was the Finnish submission to the Oscars 2022
Stop Secret's hilarious adventures continue!
In the second part of this entertaining middle grade series, a super-secret puddle mystery is solved. Hilla, Maisa and Roni-Toni's stumble across a bottomless puddle of water, which swallows the friends' football. The Stop Secret Crew is needed again, and Mitsi, the world-traveling grandma, and the incredibly funny sock monster Hikisukka Hirmunen also join to help. There are going to be wild twists, swinging dancing feet and a lot of twisting and turning before the puzzle is solved…
"The humour is enchanting, but above all Stop Secret succeeds in capturing something essential about the everyday life of children. This is what makes it such a fascinating book: simply incomprehensible things are mixed in with the ordinary and everyday. And when everything is tied together by the mystery in the story, that’s when you have all the ingredients for a gripping title.”
–Runeberg Junior Prize Jury