One day on the way to school, Joe finds a key in the long grass. It is a large, heavy key. Joe thinks a giant might have dropped it. His friend Irrum thinks it might be magic. But Akash says the key is no good because it doesn't open anything. He laughs at Joe and makes the others laugh too - except Irrum, who says that Joe should try the key in the lonely gate. When Joe turns the key in the gate, it opens up into a new world. Jan Mark has twice won the Carnegie Medal and has also won "The Guardian" Award, the "Observer" Teenage Fiction Prize and the Angel Award for Fiction. Her books include "Thunder and Lightenings", "The Dead Letter Box", "Fur, Strat and Chatto" (winner of the 1990 Mother Goose Award), "Fun With Mrs Thumb", "This Bowl of Earth", "Taking the Cat's Way Home" and "Great Frog and Mighty Moose".
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"A highly imaginative and beautifully scripted tale." Books For Keeps and The Reading and Language Information Centre "A story of universal emotions laced with a twist of magic... Beautifully written... Hauntingly supported by Jan Ormerod's mysteriously symbolic chapter headings and stark black and white drawings." The School Librarian "One of those rare people who can write for any age audience... An after-school secret garden story." The Independent on Sunday
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Jan Mark is one of the most distinguished authors of books for young people. She has twice been awarded the Carnegie Medal and has also won The Guardian Award, the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize and the Angel Award for Fiction. Her many titles for Walker Books include Taking the Cat's Way Home and Lady Long-legs as well as the Walker picture books Fur, Strat and Chatto (winner of the 1990 Mother Goose Award), Fun with Mrs Thumb, This Bowl of Earth and The Midas Touch. Jan Mark lives in Oxford.
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