Batneezer
Obert Skye
- Reading
- If your reader has not met these characters before, consider starting with an earlier series book or pausing to talk through who has returned; this instalment is identified as the sixth.
- Themes
- A school in need of a hero: Rob learns that a battle is brewing and that his school needs a hero. The brewing battle sets up a school-based adventure centred on the need for a hero.
- Returning creatures: Creatures from earlier books come to visit, making this instalment connect with the wider series. The return of earlier characters is a structural feature of the story, not evidence by itself of a particular moral message.
- Worth knowing
- Ghosts and news of a brewing battle bring supernatural and suspenseful elements into the story.