Sleepover Takeover
By (Author) Simon James Green
Illustrated by Aleksei Bitskoff
Scholastic
Scholastic
1st July 2022
6th January 2022
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Childrens / Teenage fiction: School stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and be
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Magical realism / Magical fantasy
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
823.92
Paperback
256
Width 142mm, Height 201mm, Spine 21mm
230g
When dorky, unpopular 11-year-old Otis wakes up in the morning at a sleepover birthday party, hes in for a shock. At the marquee where the sleepover took place, its a scene of carnage and mayhem: theres a donkey drinking at the chocolate fountain, five inexplicable traffic cones are dotted around the sleeping bags, a huge inflatable helium sausage looms above, one of the kids has a new tattoo, and theres a suitcase of bratwurst on the floor. But neither Otis nor the other kids around him can remember what happened! The party was in the back garden of popular kid Rocco Rococos huge house, and Otis was only there because his mum forced an invitation. Otis realises that makes him prime suspect for causing the mess, and he needs to clear his name. Meanwhile, Rocco just needs to keep his parents from finding out! So while everyone else makes a befuddled exit, Otis and Rocco reluctantly team up to hide the evidence. They decide to retrace their steps in the hope of solving the mystery of what on earth happened. Did aliens abduct them and steal their memories Or maybe they accidentally opened an interdimensional portal and let chaos through (Nope: as it turns out, it was a party-hire hypnotist with a taste for Late Expressionist paintings and Ming vases: hes been robbing houses and leaving fakes in their place all over town!)