Poppy Petunia Haviland is 12 years old and she is an aspiring actress. She loves to have adventures with her friends.
Poppy is also the daughter of one of the world's most famous movie stars. Which can be a bit daunting, at times.
Her family goes to live in a small town in an unexpected move and the sudden appearance of her mother Holly Haviland has an amazing impact on the town.
In the meantime Poppy discovers an old map within the ancient house they are renting which seems to point to the location of some buried treasure.
Poppy recruits her best friend and a rather odd neighbour to help her work out the clues in the map.
She discovers that their town was a key stopping point for the Underground Railroad, the secret method by which freed slaves were smuggled to freedom in non-slave states in the USA.
Furthermore she finds hints that her ancestors might have been involved in operating the Underground Railroad.
Can they discover the treasure indicated in the map? But who is the odd elderly fedora hatted man who is dogging their steps? Will he or they find the treasure first?
And who was really menacing the friends?
Interestingly, the writing team is made up of Michael Barra and his daughter Annabel Lively Barra who is aged 9. They live just outside New York city with actress mum Katie and Amelia who is 6.
This is a great book, a really good thriller for children.
It's published by Matador at £8.99 and really does belong on the "must buy" list of children's books for 2019.
Parents and children will all love this book.
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