Book Club: The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood

Join Mina, Reema and Mobeen on a spooky, action-packed outdoor adventure in The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood! Watch our Blue Peter Book Club video to find out what our Clubbers thought of the story.

Are you looking for a funny, thrilling story packed with suspense, brilliant illustrations and a school trip adventure? Then pick up our latest Blue Peter Book Club read, The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood: School Trip by Farhana Islam!

Read the synopsis:

Mina, Reema and Mobeen can’t wait to go on their school trip, an overnight stay at Shiremoor Oaks Adventure Centre... until somebody spooks them with stories about Bertie Blackteeth: who haunts the woods, who sharpens her toenails with twigs, who is waiting to skewer her next unfortunate victim all over with cheese-and-onion crisps!

With Bertie Blackteeth lurking and the school bully seeming to have become the teacher’s pet, this trip will test their friendship, courage and love of potato chips to the limit.

Shini met with five BP Book Clubbers at an outdoor adventure centre to tackle zip wires and archery while reviewing the book! What did the Book Clubbers think?

"I quite like the description in the book because you feel like you're actually there."

"The author is a primary school teacher, so she sort of wrote how a child would think."

"My favorite character was probably Bertie because he's very terrifying!"

"I liked Mobeen because he's very clumsy!"

"Mobeen was really, really funny—like when he thought a spider laid eggs in his hat!"

Does that sound like your kind of story? Make sure to pick up a copy from your local library and see if you can solve the mystery of Bertie Blackteeth!

The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood is packed with action and brilliant at creating some delightfully spooky scenes. 

To make the action even more exciting, the author builds tension. This makes the reader feel like something big or exciting is about to happen!

You can learn all about building tension in your own stories with BBC Bitesize's guide to Mina Mahmood.

The excitement doesn't stop with Mina Mahmood! Keep watching Blue Peter to join the Book Club as we'll also be reading lots more incredible books.

What we've read so far:

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