Patrick Gallagher - Transcendent (KS2 School Visits)
An edge-of-your-seat, high octane adventure for readers 9+ from exciting debut author
Date - Wednesday 24th September
Available time from... 9am, 11am & 2pm (times approximate)
KS2 Children - School years 4, 5 & 6
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What if you could save the world from climate change?
Find out whether introverted Jacob and hot-headed Kira can, as they embark on a high-tech mission like no other.
Jacob and Kira live in the heart of Mbale, Uganda with their conservationist mother and navigate life as unsuspecting geniuses. Kira has hopes to explore outside the hot terrains of Uganda but conspiracy theorist Jacob’s fear often holds him back from the answers he so desperately wants to uncover.
But when they discover that someone has been watching their every move in the hopes to enlist them in a top-secret agency called Transcendent, their lives are turned upside down.
Soon the twins are hurtled from the luscious landscapes of Mbale, to the sleek streets of London, where - alongside other selected protegees - they must undertake three rigorous trials, each more diffi cult than the last, to be accepted into Transcendent. If they are successful, they will be launched into space to complete a high-stakes mission to fi ght the greatest threat the world has ever seen.
ABOUT PATRICK
Patrick Gallagher is a primary school teacher from South London with roots in Goa in India and Donegal in Ireland. He studied English and American Literature with Creative Writing in both Kent and Maynooth and is a keen artist and violinist in his spare time. Like lots of Goans of that generation, Patrick’s mother was born and raised in Uganda and the time he himself has spent there inspired the spectacular backdrop to Transcendent.
Jacob and Kira’s story has been years in the making. It draws not only on Patrick’s experience of dual heritage but every science fiction and adventure story he devoured as a child, every Doctor Who episode and Spider-Man cartoon, every comic or short story he scribbled on scrap paper, every daydream on long car journeys.
To Patrick's class and every other child reading Transcendent, he would like to say this: if you love writing stories, keep going. You never know. You might just never stop.