Stop Secret Mysteries #2: The Mud Puddle Ghost

Ilona Ahti

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

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FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)

About author

Ilona Ahti

Ilona Ahti is a Finnish screenwriter and author with an MA in both Screenwriting (Aalto University) and Social Sciences (University of Helsinki). She has been to all continents, except Antarctica, and lived in most of them.  She has co-written the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award winning and Finnish Oscar nominee feature film “Girl Picture”. She is currently developing several screenplays in both tv and film. She has also published the Stop Secret novel series and other works of fiction.

Bibliography


2024, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Ilona Ahti

Stop Secret Mysteries #2: The Mud Puddle Ghost


2023, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Ilona Ahti

Stop Secret Mysteries: Stinker the Horrific Sock Monster