The Secret Lake: A children's mystery adventure (Secret Lake Mystery Adventures)

Imagine, being with your younger sibling just playing in the forest and finding a secret lake, going through a tunnel to climb a ladder leading you to travel back in time. Well, that's exactly what happens in “The Secret Lake” By Karen Inglis. A common theme throughout the whole book is to never talk to strangers. This is shown when they find this old lady and talk to her then the old lady attempts to poison them. This also occurs when they find a guy who turned out to be extremely rude to them. This book is about how siblings explore around their garden and then find a lake in the forest, they find a time traveling tunnel and they go inside it and are taken back 100 years in the past. Tom and Stella found the secret lake; they thought it was beautiful because it was surrounded by crimson pink flowering bushes, stretching away in front of them. This book would appeal to people who enjoy the Sci-Fi genre, as it shows time travel, super power, myths, and a theme of multiple lives. Some good parts of the book are when they find the lake and when they meet a nice guy and he talks weirdly. Some areas where the book could improve on is adding more background knowledge on the kids at some point. I appreciated how the author made it realistic like the details when the people spoke. It was a good read because it had good writing and also good personalities for the characters that made it more interesting. My overall opinion is that this was a very good book. I recommend this book as it piques your interest while reading about the journey of Tom and Stella.It’s always fun to read books about adventures and time travel. Learning about history can be fun and in this book it places you into a different time and provides a different perspective. Afterall, if you don't learn something new every day, its a wasted day.

I got these for some advanced readers in 2nd grade. Terrific story, interesting characters in a mystery. The kids really enjoyed.

The Secret Lake is a wonderful children’s adventure story filled with mystery, friendship, and just the right touch of magic. Karen Inglis weaves a tale that is both exciting and heartwarming as siblings Stella and Tom discover a secret lake behind their new home—one that transports them back in time. The time-travel twist is imaginative and keeps kids turning the pages, while the characters feel real and relatable. My child loved following Stella and Tom’s adventures, and the gentle suspense made it hard to put the book down. It’s engaging without being too scary, which makes it perfect for middle-grade readers. This book is a fantastic choice for kids who enjoy mysteries, adventures, or stories with a little history woven in. A modern classic that children will want to reread again and again. Highly recommend!

Good for kids 10-13 But… this book did say the D word once but other Then that I did not see anything else also I know this is a series but i felt like there should be something more to the book other then that it was a great book 📖

This was a fun and interesting book to read. I thought the idea of the lake taking kids back in time was very unique and made it a pleasure to read. I liked that there was mystery to be unfolded slowly as you read.

My son received an 98 on his book report! And still remembers the story. He hates reading and struggles with it but this book kept him engaged!!!

My daughter and I just finished reading all three books together and really enjoyed them! She will tell you they are her favorite book series thus far!! Hoping there will be a 4th book:)

We have a mother-daughter book club for 9-11 year old girls and our group read this book this month. The girls really loved the book, but what made this the best book club event was that we booked a zoom meeting with Karen through her website. She met with us and our girls for an hour and shared a bunch of slides all about how she got inspired to write her stories, what it's like to be an author, and the amazing story behind her self-publishing of the Secret Lake. Her story is incredible! And she was so kind and sweet to our girls and answered all their questions they had for her. Highly recommend booking a call with her if you're looking for an inspiring behind-the-scenes experience to excite your kids about reading and writing!

My 8 year old daughter enjoyed it. She read it just a few weeks after we watched Back to the future series on Prime Video, so when she told me what the story was, she started with “it was just like Back to the future”.

Well, we all very much enjoyed this book - grandma and grandpa and 9- and 11-year-old grandchildren. It's a great, attention-grabbing story with a really novel and intriguing central idea and a great twist at the end and the only reservation we have is that that idea is actually quite complicated and even our bright 9-year-old (and occasionally the two of us!) had to stop and think for a few moments to make sure we knew what was going on, so it would probably be lost on most 7- or 8-year-olds. With regard to its length, it’s a short story and ‘accusations’ of pamphlet size are totally unjustified - admittedly we read it in pretty short bursts but it took more than a couple of weeks to read it, with occasional double sessions in a day. Although in no way did they detract from the enjoyment , there are one or two aspects about the book that left us wondering. Why is it called “The Secret Lake”? The lake does play a continuous part in the story but quite incidentally and the book would better be titled “The Time Tunnel”. But maybe there’s already a book of that name. And a few loose ends were left dangling, for example, how did the boat come to be buried in the mound? But the strangest thing is the random, irregular and (happily!) very infrequent introduction of allusions to social media. The storytelling is essentially timeless - it could have been written in the 50s, or earlier, or later - and these odd (in every sense) nods to the 21st century are so occasional and with the exception of one key moment so unnecessary to the story, that it almost looks as if they were dropped in to make the story more current after it was finished in a sans-technology form. But in our view it is a five-star read.

Todo genial, buena letra

Preso per esercitarmi per il mio inglese, è un libro per bambini quindi usano termini facili e anche se non si sanno tutte le parole si riesce a comprendere la storia perfettamente.

Enjoyed this childrens’ story about two children and a dog a lot, reminded me of Tom’s midnight garden and Hattie.