The Haunted Mobile

Description

Jake's mobile is going wrong. It's sending weird texts to his friends. Then they start appearing on his phone - from himself. Then the voice messages begin. A girl is trapped in a storm drain, begging him for help. Finally he gets a live call from her - but is it already too late?

Promotion info

Exciting reads for struggling and reluctant readers, combining age-appropriate stories with a manageable length and reading age Short chapters and page-turning plots hold interest Inventive, inclusive and with a range of strands covering sports, real life, horror and crime and adventure, Wired offers something for everyone Written by a range of established and up and coming authors who specialise in writing for reluctant readers There is currently a very limited amount of really good publishing available for this readership. Wired aims to fill this gap

Reviews

'A gripping read' The Teacher, November/December 2011

Author description

Robert Dodds was born in England and grew up in Yorkshire and Kent with a neurotic dog and a tortoise. He went to Oxford University to study English and then became a teacher. After a few years working in England, Mexico, and the USA, he settled in Edinburgh. By this time he was a filmmaker as well as a teacher, and he set up a new degree course in film and television production at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1980s. He still works at Edinburgh College of Art for part of the year. As well as producing a variety of work for television, radio, and theatre, Robert has had four books published. This is his first title for A & C Black.