TY - BOOK AU - Wild-Palmer,Nadine TI - The tunnels below SN - 9781782692232 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Pushkin Children's KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Fiction KW - Marbles (Game objects) KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Girls KW - Tunnels KW - Kings and rulers KW - Magic KW - Imaginary places KW - Social classes KW - Friendship KW - Fantasy fiction KW - lcgft KW - Action and adventure fiction N1 - Ages 9-11 N2 - On her twelfth birthday Cecilia goes out with her parents and sister to celebrate with a visit to a museum. On their way Cecilia drops the marble that her sister gave her as a present, and running to pick it up she is taken away on an empty underground train into a dark and deep tunnel. The fun family outing becomes a much more serious mission when Cecilia finds that she and her marble have a very important role to play in freeing the inhabitants of the tunnels from the tyrannical rule of the Corvus. A truly inventive, clever and magical story about the power of friendship and the importance of self-belief by debut novelist Nadine Wild-Palmer ER -