Description
by Onuzo, Chibundu | Interest age: from c 8 years
Published 05/06/2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Childrens Books) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 288 pages
✨Shortlisted for the 2025 Little Rebels Award! ✨
This page-turning novel uses a dash of magic to explore a real and contemporary crisis: the hostility shown to refugees trying to reach the UK on small boats. Mayowa uses her newly emerging book-jumping powers to try and challenge a cruel new law passing through Parliament – a bold and timely story full of heart and empathy 📖
Publisher description:
“Ten-year-old Mayowa has always thought that her Grandpa Edward, who dyes his beard emerald green and jumps on books in private, is rather unusual too. Until one day she jumps on a book for herself, and uncovers a huge family secret …
Mayowa can book jump.
By jumping on a book, she can harness the emotions inside it and channel them directly into other people. And when the opportunity to use her power to save the lives of countless refugees presents itself, Mayowa wants to jump in with both feet. But Mayowa and her grandpa aren’t the only book jumpers in existence. And not everybody wants to use this power for good .”
