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The Yoghurt Plot
'I don't want my life controlled by a fridge.'
Humming in the kitchen of Bugg and Dilan's new home is a huge, mysterious fridge. Even when Bugg turns off the power, the light stays on. Plus, it's full of strange-looking yoghurts in glass jars with wax-paper lids. Should they? Shouldn't they? They do, but the yoghurts take them back to 1974.
What follows is a desperate scramble across time and space, in which the siblings discover a 40-year-old time crime and become painfully aware that small changes they make in the past can have huge consequences for their future. Aided and hindered by go-for-it gerbil-fancier Lorna, they try to put everything back in order before time - and the yoghurts - run out completely.
Another delightful, family-friendly adventure from the author of the Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week, SHRUNK!
Humming in the kitchen of Bugg and Dilan's new home is a huge, mysterious fridge. Even when Bugg turns off the power, the light stays on. Plus, it's full of strange-looking yoghurts in glass jars with wax-paper lids. Should they? Shouldn't they? They do, but the yoghurts take them back to 1974.
What follows is a desperate scramble across time and space, in which the siblings discover a 40-year-old time crime and become painfully aware that small changes they make in the past can have huge consequences for their future. Aided and hindered by go-for-it gerbil-fancier Lorna, they try to put everything back in order before time - and the yoghurts - run out completely.
Another delightful, family-friendly adventure from the author of the Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week, SHRUNK!
- GenresMiddle GradeChildrens
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First published June 5, 2014
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About the author
Fleur Hitchcock
26 books81 followersBorn in Chobham, by an airfield, and raised in Winchester on the banks of the River Itchen, Fleur Hitchcock grew up as the youngest child of three. When she was eight, she wrote a story about an alien and a jelly. It was called THE ALIEN AND THE JELLY and filled four exercise books. She grew up a little, went away to school near Farnham, studied English in Wales, and, for the next twenty years, sold Applied Art in the city of Bath. When her younger child was seven, she embarked on the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa and graduated with a distinction. Now living outside Bath, between parenting and writing, Fleur Hitchcock works with her husband (a toy maker), looks after other people's gardens and grows vegetables.
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December 6, 2015
I've enjoyed Hitchcock's children's books before, some great concepts that young readers can identify with.
This is a fairly short one that KS2 pupils in particular will like - time travel via a magic fridge.
Siblings Bugg and Dilan discover a fridge left in their new house that isn't plugged in, that works.. and that contains some very strange looking yoghurt... Trying it, they find themselves going back in time, seeing their grandfather and town in the past.
The plot (and possibly the yoghurt) thickens when the pair discover that changing the past (as their friend Lorna accidentally does) has affected their present. A long-ago crime comes within their sights as they try to put right some wrongs and avoid messing up their family and lives.
This is unique in my experience in that it covers time travel from the perspective of the protagonists' own lives and homes, and covers the tricky subject of changing the past and avoiding one own's past and future selves - something I've never seen covered for a child audience. Ecological as well as familial consequences are shown of even small changes the children make. Would be great for discussions in class.
I enjoyed the audio version of this, it's straightforward enough (just) to follow in that format. But it's a short enough read for KS2 pupils, as a class read perhaps too.
A lovely idea, with a great ending and some very good themes brought up.
This is a fairly short one that KS2 pupils in particular will like - time travel via a magic fridge.
Siblings Bugg and Dilan discover a fridge left in their new house that isn't plugged in, that works.. and that contains some very strange looking yoghurt... Trying it, they find themselves going back in time, seeing their grandfather and town in the past.
The plot (and possibly the yoghurt) thickens when the pair discover that changing the past (as their friend Lorna accidentally does) has affected their present. A long-ago crime comes within their sights as they try to put right some wrongs and avoid messing up their family and lives.
This is unique in my experience in that it covers time travel from the perspective of the protagonists' own lives and homes, and covers the tricky subject of changing the past and avoiding one own's past and future selves - something I've never seen covered for a child audience. Ecological as well as familial consequences are shown of even small changes the children make. Would be great for discussions in class.
I enjoyed the audio version of this, it's straightforward enough (just) to follow in that format. But it's a short enough read for KS2 pupils, as a class read perhaps too.
A lovely idea, with a great ending and some very good themes brought up.
August 27, 2020
DNF Miss 6 got bored part-way through and switched to a different book.
Miss 6 and I like to explore different books and authors at the library, sometimes around particular topics or themes. We try to get different ones out every week or so; it's fun for both of us to have the variety and to look at a mix of new & favourite authors.
Miss 6 and I like to explore different books and authors at the library, sometimes around particular topics or themes. We try to get different ones out every week or so; it's fun for both of us to have the variety and to look at a mix of new & favourite authors.
May 18, 2021
Very confusing, need big brain to understand. I smol brain tho.
June 13, 2014
This book was great, a bit young for me but it doesn't mean that I couldn't love it. I really liked the character of Bugg and I loved the way that Bugg doesn't really have a gender- it's just sort of irrelevant to the story line. Lorna was fantastically annoying, I loved how relateable she was to other, real life annoying people, ahem. Although she was rather redeemed by her performance of desperation near the end. Fast paced and good for anyone who likes time travel or just likes a well written book.
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Five stars
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Five stars
June 20, 2014
A proper children's book! Delightfully English and very cleverly put together.
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