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Max's Hallowe'en Adventure (Shadows of the Past Book 14) Kindle Edition

by Wendy Leighton-Porter (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 out of 5 stars (6)
In his 5th solo mini-adventure, Max the Tonkinese cat, the feline hero of the SHADOWS OF THE PAST series is transported back in time to the mid-17th century.
Max doesn’t understand how this has happened, but he soon recognises his surroundings and realises it isn't the first time he’s been to this place. Why has he been brought to this tumbledown cottage in the middle of nowhere? All is about to be revealed…
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  1. Reading age
    7 - 13 years
  2. Book 14 of 20
    Shadows of the Past
  3. Print length
    62 pages
  4. Language
    English
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  6. Publication date
    October 22, 2017
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"We now accompany our darling Tonkinese cat Max as he finds himself arriving in the middle of the seventeenth century in England with no idea why. But as the feisty feline begins to recognise the dark and magical world around him, the spook factor rises to all new heights on a chilling Halloween night" K. C. Finn, author

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B076PG9GGZ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Silver Quill Publishing
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 22, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 741 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 62 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 14 of 20 ‏ : ‎ Shadows of the Past
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 7 - 13 years
  • Best Sellers Rank: #1,628,427 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 out of 5 stars (6)

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My books have won various awards over the past couple of years, including gold and silver medals in the Children's Literary Classics Book Awards 2018 and 2019, and a bronze in the Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2019. I have also been shortlisted twice in the Rubery Book Awards.

The Shadow of Atlantis is the first in a series of time-travel adventures, featuring 3 children and a magnificent Tonkinese cat called Max. The most recent title in the series is The Shadow of the Great Fire, set in mid-17th century London, and I'm now working on book number 18 - The Shadow of the Slave Ship.

As I take my young readers on a magical mystery tour through the past, I'm hoping that my love of history, myth and legend will rub off on them too. Personally, I'm enjoying the journey so much, I don't ever want it to end! Why not come along with me for the ride?

website: www.wendy-leighton-porter.com

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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  • Cheryl Carpinello, author of MG Arthurian Tales and others. See my Amazon Author Page
    5.0 out of 5 stars Witches...Witches...and Max?
    Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2020
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    If you're like me, you've heard of the Salem Witch trials (1692-3) and the gross miscarriage of justice that happened then. But, I had not heard of the witch hunts in England (1644). So along with Max, I was dropped into a dark, smoky, spooky environment with no idea where we were or why we were there!

    Max finds himself guided by a strange cat named Berry to what appears to be a an old cottage complete with a strange old lady named Goodwife Clowes. She briefly tells Max what is going on and tasks him with rescuing a trio of supposed witches captured by the WitchFinder! But Max may have a problem. He can talk! Like that won't be suspicious!

    This tale is not really a stand-alone as it leads right into the next adventure in the author's Shadows From the Past series: The Witchfinder. So don't pass this one up. You'll miss the excitement and danger, and you won't know why Max is afraid...very afraid of having to go back to 17th century England!
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  • Fiona Ingram
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Suitable Spooky and Scary Adventure!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2017
    Format: Kindle
    It was the loveliest summer afternoon, perfect for a relaxing snooze... especially for a cat. Max was in the middle of a most pleasant dream involving being fed strips of smoked salmon by a very pretty girl when he smelled smoke! Smoke? Gasp! That meant fire! Fire? That meant danger!!! Maybe lives must be saved. Where was everyone? He had to save the book, the book that had started the whole series of adventures, with the twins’ parents becoming lost in the mists of time, trapped in the pages of history. He couldn’t let the book be destroyed, because then Mum and Dad would be gone forever. However, when he plunged (not very) bravely into the smoke, he found himself back in the past, in 1644 to be exact, and he just knew that somehow this involved another very uncomfortable adventure that he hadn’t asked for!

    A snarky cat called Berry was waiting to take him back to a tumbledown old cottage that seemed strangely familiar, and in fact, he’d already been there in a previous side adventure of his own (Max’s Christmas Adventure). The whole place was quite spooky, and there was a weird old woman called Goodwife Clowes, who insisted he was necessary to help rescue her sister from an evil man. Combined with this rude cat’s annoying attitude (or should that be cattitude?), Max just longed to go home. Then the weird old woman told him that the evil man was a witchfinder and that’s why he was needed to rescue her sister. Witchfinder? Max asked himself (as did I) was that even a job? In a nutshell, the Witchfinder General (the man had even given himself a title!) was going from village to village, rounding up women who might be witches, or who people had accused of witchcraft. Many innocent people in the village of Mistley Thorn would suffer if Max didn’t help. Can he muster up the last remnants of what passed for courage to lend a hand?

    Max has the unfortunate tendency to be thrust into situations that require great bravery and feats of derring-do when this is entirely not in his nature. Once again, he’ll have to pull out all the stops. A brief and memorably nasty encounter at the local jail reveals the enormity of the situation and the truly evil nature of Matthew Hopkins, who specialised in sniffing out witches, or in fact any old lady (like this one), with a broom and a beady stare. Lovely details place young readers right into the setting of All Hallows’ Even (which we know as Hallowe’en), with a suitably eerie atmosphere and an uncomfortable amount of danger. But the peril is too great, the Witchfinder and his men can’t be overcome by two mere cats, even talking ones. Inevitably, Max is sent back to his own era, to plan and return to defeat the Witchfinder. Now Max has the reassurance of Jemima, Joe, and brainy Charlie on his side as reinforcements! Watch out, Witchfinder. Max will be back!

    Author Wendy Leighton-Porter, as always, has a treasure trove of extra detail for avid young fans of the series and this fifth mini adventure in Max’s side forays. The origins of Hallowe’en and the pagan festival of Samhain are explained, as are local suspicions of the time and details of why people were blamed for natural disasters and diseases. Lovely word play ensues as well with Max getting quite confused about names, although given the stressful situation, this is quite understandable. Max’s Hallowe’en Adventure is a delightful and deliciously scary prelude to the next adventure (the tenth) for Jemima, Joe, and Charlie, entitled The Shadow of the Witchfinder. It has a wonderfully spooky cover and I can’t wait to read it!
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  • Iona McGregor
    5.0 out of 5 stars An adventure for Halloween
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2017
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    My favourite fictional cat, the gigantic Tonkinese named Maximus, Max for short, finds himself on a scary adventure all by himself travelling back in time to witchcraft and a horrible Witchfinder General. What I like about Wendy Leighton-Porter's Shadow of the Past series is the pace, attention to historical detail (there's an explanation in the back of the book about customs and beliefs of that time) and all round good storytelling. Left on a cliff hanger we wait eagerly to find out if Max, returning to the present, can persuade the twins and Charlie to venture back in time to save the unfortunate women accused of witchcraft in those superstitious times.
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  • eppingstrider
    4.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading before book 15
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2022
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    Max has a very short Halloween adventure, which turns out to set him up for the Shadow of the Witchfinder. They're not my favourite books of the series, but they are still excellent.
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