Elderberry & Jones Mysteries

by Hannah Pancoast, Katie Pancoast, Rae Lawrence

The second book in the exciting Elderberry & Jones Mysteries Series - The Phantom Footballer.Soon after successfully solving the Jewel Heist case, Oliver and Ellie are invited to tour Old Trafford stadium with a very special Manchester United host. They soon discover that a Victorian-Era footballer haunts the stadium and has kidnapped the new manager!With help from Oliver's Dad, Detective Ernest Jones, the children investigate. The laughs come fast with plenty of slapstick humour and word-play banter between the Liverpool-supporting children and the Manchester United club.But can they rescue the manager before the first fixture of the football season?+++
This is a dyslexia-friendly chapter book of about 6,000 decodable words, printed in large font/double-spacing with the OpenDyslexia font, on cream-coloured paper. Feedback on The Jewel Heist:
"The perfect length chapters!"
"DEAD FUNNY!"
"My child read it all without being nagged!"
"My child read ahead without me, and I wanted to know what happened next too!"
"Font and spacing are just right for little fingers to get under the words. And for me to read at night without my glasses."
"I can't wait to share this with my Year 3 children!"
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The Elderberry & Jones Mysteries are written with short chapters and accessible language to provide an exciting 'big kid' story for those older children for whom reading is a struggle: children like my daughters. I've deliberately left the text without pictures, remembering how proud I felt when I first read a chapter book with no pictures! Perhaps the second edition will be illustrated. We gifted copies of The Jewel Heist to my daughters' classmates for summer reading, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Parents have texted to share their delight that their child read a book without being nagged, that the chapters are perfectly paced and the right length to keep interest, while not exhausting the young reader. The children at school (and their teachers!) have been asking when H & K's second book is coming out, which...made me cry! I am so pleased that the children are as excited as we are about Ellie and Oliver's adventures. To keep the reading momentum going, I've reduced the price of The Jewel Heist on Amazon to cost - if one child picks up our book and reads it for pleasure, that's payment enough. I've shared more about our dyslexia experience and journey on our blog, which you can find at I'll also keep the page current with what we are working on and what's coming soon. Much love and many thanks for your support! -R