The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence

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Breakfast Club guaranteed I had the best possible start to my day and welcomed me with open arms. It wasn't just about food. It was about forming friendships, about togetherness, about escape. It was where some of my greatest memories were made. I want to capture that feeling in my debut fiction book.' - Marcus Rashford MBE About This Edition ISBN: Together with Sam Copeland and Jenny Pearson, the above authors/illustrators could be used as an example to discuss teamwork and identify what factors are important when working in a team. The kids find themselves chasing an unidentified, rather scary, creature whilst also trying to keep their activities secret from the eagle eyed teachers at school.

Challenge the children to become detectives and write a secret message using clues to find words in a certain book to compose a sentence. He described books as “a great source of inspiration and motivation, and much needed for children who struggle to see beyond what is on their doorstep”.Anthony Horowitz, CBE explains his love of storytelling and how, as a child, Tintin was his favourite character. This could be used as a starting point to explore comic strip books such as Tintin, looking at the differences between them and novels. The children could use the comic strips as an inspiration to draw and write their own.

We have partnered with the publisher Pan Macmillan and BBC Teach to create exclusive materials to accompany The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence. LAURA: I loved the Roald Dahl books as well when I was younger. So exciting, "Matilda" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and stuff. Investigate how people are awarded honours and research children’s authors who have received an honour and the reason they were given it. The children could also look into the history of the honours system. LAURA: Ok, so, my first world's worst for you is, what book character do you think would be the world's worst chef? ANTHONY HOROWITZ: Well, Albie? , when I was at school, I was no good at anything. I got the worst reports anyone could get. But then I discovered two things. One, the library. I loved reading. And two, I loved telling stories. And that was where I knew at the age of ten I was going to do for the rest of my life. 'Cause it was the only thing I really loved.Man Utd. footballer Marcus Rashford seems to be everywhere you look at the moment, with self-help books, biographies and this Breakfast Club Adventures series. LAURA: So maybe it's a book from your childhood. Or maybe it's a book from now. But if you could be a character from any book, what book character would you be? MARTA: I know, it's actually been recently translated into English. Uh, it's been translated in many languages before, but not English. ANd I think recently has, so.

Rashford said the book club was designed to “get the right books in the hands of children who have very limited access to them” and offer “an escape from environments that can be quite challenging and to find the joy in reading”. ALEX: There was once a detective called Magnifying Glass. And Magnifying Glass, um, was, he really wanted to find a magical butterfly. In response to Marcus's End Child Food Poverty campaign, the British Government committed GBP400 million to support vulnerable children across the UK, supporting 1.7 million children for the next 12 months.

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Breakfast Club guaranteed I had the best possible start to my day and welcomed me with open arms. It wasn’t just about food. It was about forming friendships, about togetherness, about escape. It was where some of my greatest memories were made. I want to capture that feeling in my debut fiction book.’ – Marcus Rashford MBE LAURA: This seagull keeps, uh, popping in and interrupting me. What's it-, what, what do you want, seagull? Oh, the seagull's letting me know it's time for a quiz, Anthony. So I've got some quiz questions for you here. Oh, but hang on, it says here, if Antony gets all the answers wrong, I get pooed on by the seagull.

Marcus has lost his precious football, given to him by his much adored older cousin, who has gone to play footy in the US on scholarship.LAURA: Yeah, or like some kind of dog who unclear chase after all the balls. It needs to be someone ANTHONY: Exactly. who cannot play the sport, yes. Ok, the next world's worst for you is, what book character do you think would be the world's worst astronaut? Inspired by Marcus’s own experiences growing up, The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence is the first fiction book by England International footballer, child-poverty campaigner and bestselling author Marcus Rashford MBE. MARTA: I absolutely, I love this whole moving things with your mind and, uh, that would definitely be my preferred. Can you imagine how many drawings I could do? ALEX: Um, I'd be Fantastic Mr Fox from "Fantastic Mr Fox". Um, I, I, whenever I read that book, it was so fun to imagine eating and drinking all of those cool foods. And, um, and just being, I think it would be cool to be something a little bit different from what I am now, so.