Lauren St John’s Adventure Stories for Girls
Lauren St John is the author of the bestselling White Giraffe series, inspired by her childhood on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe. Dead Man’s Cove, the first in her mystery series featuring eleven-year-old detective Laura Marlin, who lives in St Ives, won the 2011 Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Fire Storm, the third book in her One Dollar Horse trilogy for older readers, was published by Orion on 1 March 2014. Here she recommends exciting adventure stories that will appeal to girls.