Welcome to the joyous and imaginative world of Mina and her best friends Reema and Mobeen. Perfect for reluctant readers, this book is full of friendship, family, and fun-tastic illustrations! It so wonderfully captures the experience of being a younger sibling in a brown household — from having to listen to all your uncles and aunties to having love-hate relationships with your siblings and cousins, especially when they’re telling you spooky stories about the things that haunt your school field trips.

Mina and her friends can’t wait to spend the night at Shirewood Oaks Adventure Centre . . . until they hear all the spooky stories about Bertie Blackteeth: who haunts the woods, who sharpens her toenails with twigs, who is waiting to skewer her next unfortunate victim all over with cheese-and-onion crisps!

This phantom is looming over their adventure activities, and their school bully has become the teacher’s pet. Laugh out loud in every short and easy-to-read chapter as Mina and her friends beat Bilal the Bully and save their skins from Bertie, all while maintaining their love of potato chips.

Farhana Islam