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McKenzie Visit

Sophie McKenzie, author of teenage fiction, visited Highgate Junior School on Tuesday 4 May 2010.

Ms McKenzie was born in London and worked as a journalist, an editor and a creative writing tutor before turning to writing full time. Her first book, the young adult thriller, Girl, Missing, was published in 2006, and was followed by Six Steps to a Girl (2007), Three's a Crowd (2008) and The One and Only (2009).  Blood Ties (2008), a science fiction thriller about the lives of two teenagers, Theo and Rachel, won several awards, including the 2009 Red House Children's Book Award. Her most recent novel, The Set-Up (2009), is the first in the Medusa Project series of thrillers about a group of teenagers with psychic abilities, the second of which, The Hostage, is due for publication in 2010. 

Ms McKenzie talked to the students about her work and the inspiration behind her novel, Time Train to the Blitz, an exciting time slip story set in London, during May 1941.

An informative and constructive event was enjoyed by all.  VN

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