The Thing in the Basement: White Wolves: Adventure Stories
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Overview
The Thing in the Basement is an atmospheric mystery story with a school setting. When the boy arrives at his new school everything is strange and different. The big, Victorian building has many storeys and a basement...As he passes the basement he notices a smell of heat and soot and burning. He looks down there and suddenly there’s bang and a flash, a roaring sound. He knows there’s something down there. Something nasty...something monstrous. And as the day goes on, all the evidence leads to suggest that the ‘something’ is a dragon...
When the boy arrives at his new school everything is strange and different. The Victorian building has many storeys and a basement... As he passes the basement he notices a smell of heat and soot and burning. He looks down there and suddenly there’s bang and a flash, a roaring sound... This is an atmospheric mystery story with a school setting.
Michaela Morgan is a high-profile children’s author who regularly contributes to school book weeks, INSET courses and conferences.
Part of the specially-commissioned White Wolves fiction range for 7-11 year olds, written in consultation with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education.
Each year group will have three stand-alone titles and accompanying Teachers’ Guides to support guided reading lessons in the classroom.
Ties in with themes demanded by the NLS for Year 3: mystery and adventure.
The series is already garnering praise in the press: ‘It’s a pleasure to read commissioned work which fulfils its brief so imaginatively’ (Books for Keeps).
- Title: The Thing in the Basement
- Author: M. J Morgan
- Series: White Wolves: Adventure Stories
- Publisher: A&C Black Childrens & Educational
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 48
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408163399, 9780713676242, 0713676248, 140816339X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408163399
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T09:54:02Z
Michaela Morgan is a long-established children's author with a string of bestselling titles to her name, including the Rockets quartet, Silly Sausage. She has been shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year, been an International Reading Association Children's Choice and won a United Kingdom Reading Association award.