Making Millions
by Erika McGann (O’Brien, 2017); audiobook read by Aoife McMahon (Bolinda, 2020)
The Bubble Street Gang’s second adventure features plenty of personality but no real mystery (beyond the funny, blatantly spurious ‘invisible boy’). Cass’s wilful obliviousness is more than a trifle over-the-top, her schemes almost distressingly flawed. McMahon’s reading once again elevates the text.
The Clubhouse Mystery
by Erika McGann (O’Brien, 2017); audiobook read by Aoife McMahon (Bolinda, 2020)
A lively introduction to Irish primary-school detectives Cass and the Bubble Street Gang. Cass is an optimistic, self-centred fantasist whose gung-ho, take-charge leadership comes zestily through in the first-person narrative (and especially in McMahon’s audiobook reading). The mystery is slight but age-appropriate.