The Secret Lake

I am seven years old. I study in DUBAI and I read your book the secret lake. I loved it so much. I finished the full book in two days. I give it five stars. My favorite part is when Stella found the time tunnel. The only thing I found in my garden is insects and spiders… Eewww! I wish I was Stella and I could go back in time and celebrate my seventh birthday again. I have a question why is Stella on her iPhone so often? Thank you for writing this fantastic book. I just loved all the mystery and I can’t wait to read. Return to the secret lake.

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Super mon petit de 8 ans adoré l'histoire

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”.

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.

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.

My 11-year-old son loves these books. The stories are engaging, easy to follow, and keep him excited to read. He always looks forward to the next book in the series. Highly recommended for children who enjoy mystery and adventure.