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Charly & The Superheroes (Charly Holmes Series Book 2) Kindle Edition
Charlotte Holmes – Charly to her friends – is an inquisitive 14-year-old schoolgirl who loves superhero movies. She enters a competition through her favourite breakfast cereal to win the trip of a lifetime to Universal Studios in Hollywood, and is hopeful of winning, despite mum’s caution.
Imagine her surprise when she wins! Mum and Dad join her on the adventure that starts with a trans-Atlantic flight and a hotel stay in Los Angeles. On their studio tour an unexpected incident leads to Charly joining the cast of a superheroes movie that is being filmed, but during rehearsals her excitement is soon cut short when the rumblings of an earthquake signal the start of a real-life catastrophe.
The scene soon switches from a pretend disaster to a real one, and Charly is challenged to help the superhero actors come up with solutions to their life-threatening situation. Will her creative mind and quick reactions, together with the ‘powers’ of four superheroes, help guide her family and friends to safety?
Charly & The Superheroes is a light-hearted and life-affirming adventure story that treads the border between the magic of the movies and the perils of real-life disasters, seen through the eyes of a teenaged school girl.
This book is suitable reading for older children and parents.
- Reading age9 - 15 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level6 - 12
- Publication dateSeptember 19, 2018
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Product details
- ASIN : B07HCP27PV
- Publication date : September 19, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 2.1 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 52 pages
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About the author

Tim Walker is an independent author based in the UK.
In 2024 Tim published his second audiobook, London Tales, to add to 2023's Thames Valley Tales. These two audiobooks were produced and narrated by British actor and author, Richard James and are available on Amazon Audible. London Tales is a collection of eleven stories that echo London's past, reflect the present and imagine its future. London Tales is a companion volume to Thames Valley Tales, re-published as a second edition in 2023. Thames Valley Tales is a collection of contemporary stories that draw on current affairs and the rich history associated with England's longest river wholly within the country.
His most recent novel is a thrilling dual timeline, Guardians at the Wall, published in June 2021. Inspired by a visit to Hadrian's Wall in 2020, it tells the story of a team of archaeologists who uncover artefacts that connect them to the life of a Roman centurion who had guarded the wall in second century Roman Britannia. The story of centurion Gaius Atticianus of the VI Legion is told in alternating chapters, shadowing the efforts of student archaeologist, Noah Jessop, to piece together an account of Gaius's life and struggles for his thesis. How close will Noah's assumptions be to Gaius's real fate?
Tim published three books in 2020 - Perverse (April); Arthur Rex Brittonum (June) and Charly in Space (September).
Arthur, Rex Brittonum, a re-imagining of the King Arthur story, is book five in his historical series, A Light in the Dark Ages, and follows on from 2019's Arthur Dux Bellorum. Book one in the series is Abandoned (second edition 2018), followed by Ambrosius: Last of the Romans (2017); and book three is Uther's Destiny (2018). Series book covers are designed by Canadian graphic artist, Cathy Walker. The series connects the end of Roman Britain to elements of the Arthurian legend, presenting an imagined history (inspired by early historical sources) of Britain in the early Medieval period, once called the Dark Ages.
Tim lives near Windsor - close to the River Thames - the inspiration for his first book of short stories, Thames Valley Tales (2015, revised second edition, 2023). In September 2017 he published a second book of short stories, Postcards from London (unpublished in August 2023 to make way for London Tales, 2023). These stories draw on the local history and current affairs of towns and cities along the course of the Thames where the author has lived and worked. A new collection of poems and short fiction, Perverse, was published in April 2020.
His first novel was a political thriller, Devil Gate Dawn, that received pre-publication exposure on the Kindle Scout programme in March/April 2016. It found a wide readership due to its unnerving predictions of a post-Brexit Britain beset by political turmoil under King Charles III's rule and buckling under attacks from terrorist groups and includes a chapter that anticipated life in Trump America, written a year before his election.
In early 2017 he published his first children's book, co-authored with his daughter, Cathy - The Adventures of Charly Holmes. Another adventure story was published in 2018 - Charly & The Superheroes, followed by Charly in Space (2020).
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- Linnet LaneReviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Charly Holmes spreads her wings in a death- defying adventure.
Young superhero fans now have four more larger than life characters to read about. They might include them in the stories they write for themselves, inspired by co- author Cathy Walker. Charly Holmes, now fourteen in this story, sets her sights on Hollywood - as a guest. Bold Charly is led by her thirst for knowledge, and her superhero dreams seem to be coming true, but titanic challenges lie ahead.
The pace and energy increases. Good fun. But the story also provokes thought. What are the qualities that count in a crisis, and where do we look for them?
I shall be happy to give this book as an enjoyable read, ideal as a stocking filler or a birthday gift.