The Weather Well by Vashti Hardy

The Weather Well is the final adventure in the brilliant Griffin Gate STEM series by Vashti Hardy with fantastic illustrations by Natalie Smillie. Full of intriguing gadgets and lots of inventing, readers will be inspired to follow their own passions and use their natural creativity to solve problems.

Grace Griffin and her fellow warden, Tom, travel to adventures in far off lands, reached through the incredible Griffin map. They are experts at helping people in trouble and finding the answer to the most complicated problems. In The Weather Well, they leave the sweltering heat of summer to visit Oakwell where the people are trapped in a freezing snowstorm. Can they find the cause of this weird weather and restore balance everywhere?

Through logical thinking, the most amazing snowglobes and a little help from their bossy robot raven, Watson, the brave, determined and clever pair can always find a solution.

Thank you to Barrington Stoke for this accessible and enjoyable book! With dyslexia-friendly font, spacing and page tint as well as careful vocabulary choice, so many children will be able to join Grace, Tom and the rest of the Griffin gang on their next adventure!

I’m thrilled to be able to include an extract from the first in the series – The Griffin Gate – in my contemporary fiction comprehension book for Years 3-4.