Eleven-year-old Noah shouldn’t have even been on the school minibus, the one in which the teacher entered the wrong details into the SatNav and now he and the five other students, including his sister, who won’t admit she knows him, are stranded on a deserted island. The minibus is dead after falling off a cliff, with their packed lunches, and their teacher has gone missing after trying to get help.

Maybe it was fate that Noah became trapped in the bus, as he just might be the only one with reasonable ideas. Although according to his parents he is also the one who has broken the internet, which is no longer working and they refuse to allow him home until he fixes it.

How is Noah communicating with his parents when technology doesn’t work and the kids are stuck on an island in the middle of the sea – Letters of course!!

Noah’s Gold is a hilarious story of one young boy who has become trapped on an island with a group of students who are not prepared for being stranded with no food, water, heat, etc. Good job Noah is there.

Told in letters that are mainly written by Noah to his parents in which he shares all about what the children have been up to over the course of five days (and nights), which includes foiling a robbery. The book will have children giggling out loud.

It is filled with adventure and characters that are very believable, especially when you realise how much they relied on technology to get by and didn’t know what some natural items were as they didn’t have labels on them. The banter they have is exactly as I would expect a group of year nines to talk.

This is a fun book that engages the reader, has amazing illustrations throughout, including a map – who doesn’t love a map in a book!! and has a very creative plot that is enjoyable the whole way through.