Jumbo Jets – serie

When it comes to the weather, Rebecca Farren-Hyte is a grade-one expert. She could tell you the temperature on Tyneside or the windspeed in Watford, not to mention the rainfall in Rotherham. But will she be able to stop the mystery blizzards before she loses her job as TV weather girl?

Pickles is a small black and white dog who loves to smell everything. One day, his habit helps solve a baffling mystery.

In theory, Uncle Merv has come to stay in order to look after Tony and Ben, but in reality it is Tony who does the looking after and Uncle Merv who fibs about his diet, drinks like a fish and invites burglars to tea.

Tom and his little brother are to be page boys. As if that weren't enough, they have to wear purple frilly shirts, shoes with silver buckles and white tights. A on top of that, they get burgled on the morning of the wedding. Surely nothing else could go wrong?

A title in the JUMBO JETS series, illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings. Snobberley House School has a first class reputation, but things are not always as they seem – someone at the school is hiding a hideous secret. First published in hardback in 1996.

I was starting a new school -- all Mum had to do was blend into the crowd and everything would be fine. But within seconds I found myself standing in the school hall wearing a lipstick kiss on each cheek, while the rest of the class gazed on, speechless. Could things possibly get any worse? 'Jumbo Jets' is a series which combines lively stories and pictures, for young readers who have enjoyed 'Jets' and want a longer story.