Max Booth Future Sleuth: Tape Escape!

Name: Max Booth Future Sleuth: Tape Escape!
Brand: Arotahi Agency
SKU: 9781925520606
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By Cameron Macintosh

Series: Max Booth Future Sleuth

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Max Booth Future Sleuth: Tape Escape! revolves around Max, a young inventor navigating a futuristic world. Together with his trusty robo-dog, Oscar, Max discovers an ancient cassette tape. Intrigued by this piece of forgotten technology, they embark on a thrilling adventure to uncover its secrets, all while dealing with the challenges and quirks of life in the future.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Description

Max Booth Future Sleuth: Tape Escape! introduces Max Booth, an 11-year-old shadie urchin living in the year 2424, struggling to survive. With an opportunity to make some money by uncovering the secrets of mysterious gadgets from the 20th century for the Bluggsville City Museum, Max and his faithful yet slightly neurotic robo-dog, Oscar, start investigating.

But the path to success is never easy. There are sinister tricks, strange characters, and lots of challenges along the way.

Max and Oscar have been tasked with identifying an object that's baffling everyone—a 1980s cassette tape. However, there's more to this tape than meets the eye. It contains long-lost songs from popular mega-star David Snowie, and now a strange musicological expert seems determined to stop them in their tracks.

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Max Booth Future Sleuth: Tape Escape!

Max Booth Future Sleuth: Tape Escape! introduces Max Booth, an 11-year-old shadie urchin living in the year 2424, struggling to survive. With an opportunity to make some money by uncovering the secrets of mysterious gadgets from the 20th century for the Bluggsville City Museum, Max and his faithful yet slightly neurotic robo-dog, Oscar, start investigating. But the path to success...

By Cameron Macintosh

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Max Booth Future Sleuth: Stamp Safari

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925520606

Publisher: Big Sky Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 July 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: Big Sky Publishing

Contributors:

Illustrated by Dave Atze
Illustrated by Dave Atze

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 130

Collections

Cameron Macintosh Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Series: Max Booth Future Sleuth Young Adult

About the Author

Cameron Macintosh: full-time story-scribbler and laptop-tapper. Cameron spends more time in his pyjamas than he’d like to admit, but it seems to help him get things done! A huge fan of brownies, books and Beatles, he plans to open a book-filled, Beatle-tune-blasting brownie bakery when he grows up! Cameron has written more than 100 books, including plays, science-fiction and non-fiction. His books have been published in many countries around the world. Chip Blip is the fifth title in his popular Max Booth Future Sleuth series. Dave Atze: professional fun-haver and Illustrator of all things cute and cuddly. Commonly found sketching up a storm with his trusty K9 by his side, Dave has worked in cartoons, comics, games, toys, advertising and children’s books. Dave illustrates amazing books for kids that sell all over the world including Cat Spies Mouse, the Max Booth series, the Nursery Crimes series and books about a kangaroo from Uluru!

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