Phillip Pullman

 The story is about a girl whose mother has run away, she lives with her father and she wants to become a firework maker (like her father),  but then she gets very annoyed because he won't tell her the secret ingredient and so she goes away to find it in the mountains faraway.

 I like the bit were they introduce the elephant called Trumpet because he toots like one. I would recommend this book for years 4 and 5, because it's really really nice to read about a place in India quite a long time ago.

jayna
Age: 10
Latchmere School