I’m on a bit of a ‘magical adventure’ streak at the moment so ‘School of Fireflies’ was just the ticket. What’s I particularly like about this title is that it has a host of ethnically diverse character which can sometimes be lacking in stories like this.

“The grown-ups aren’t telling us the whole story, so we’ve got to find it…”

When best friends Siddy and Zadie start the year at the magical School for Fireflies, they discover they are anything but normal.

Amidst the excitement of new powers and potions, there is a decades-old mystery waiting to be solved. The girls must put their detective skills to use to secretly find a long-lost diary. And they soon realise that the clues they uncover might be tied to the reason Siddy’s dad disappeared without a trace…

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Readers will love that the story dives straight in with a mystery – just what has happened to Siddy’s father? Surely there has to be more to it than the adults are letting on?

The mysteries continue aplenty as strange fireflies appear and lead the two budding detectives to discover they’ve actually been accepted into the magical school of Hatton and Latimer to hone magical powers they hitherto had no idea they (or their fathers) possessed!

As the girls start to discover their own individual talents and skills, the temptation to keep secrets from each other grows.

Readers will need to keep their eyes peeled for the many clues hidden in the story as the girls try to solve the riddle of the fateful events leading up to the disappearance of Siddy’s dad.

A great read for anyone aged 9+

*Many thanks to KnightsOf for inviting me to be a part of this blog tour*