“Sally Porter hadn’t wanted her parents to move house, but they had gone and done it anyway.”
Sally Porter’s mum and dad love their new dream home in the countryside. But for 11-year-old city-girl Sally, it’s a nightmare. With no friends, nothing to do and parents with no idea, all she wants to do is escape. The perfect scenario for a crazy new superpower.
When a dare with local kids goes wrong, Sally can’t believe it when she rushes to hide in a mouldy old cupboard but finds herself at a birthday party in Alabama. Her door-travelling adventures have just begun. With help from secretive young cat-burglar Sesame and crafty old Enoch from The Invisible Emporium, Sally learns to teleport anywhere she wants – and quite a few places she shouldn’t – as easily as stepping from one room to another.
But her escapades don’t go unnoticed. The Door Police are on Sally’s case and it looks like somebody wants her dead. Sally is more important – and in more trouble – than she realises. Sally must hone her skills, work out who her friends are and save the door-travelling world before her incredible new talent is crushed, permanently.
Reviewed on Reedsy Discovery:
“A must have for both school library and home library. A real joy to read!!”
Door-To-Door Sally is part of the ‘Our Weird World’ series of surprising, suspenseful and strange stories for middle grade readers – children aged 8-12. You can read the series in any order. A kind of ‘Stranger Things’ for kids, these books mix real-world problems with paranormal themes and will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Amari & The Night Brothers, Story Thieves, Keeper Of The Lost Cities and The Dark Is Rising.
“On the upstairs landing of a medium-sized house somewhere in a north London suburb, a small, nimble figure emerged from the door to the linen cupboard and crept cat-like across the hall. The time was just after three in the morning. The kind of time when everyone should be asleep. And if they’re not asleep, then they’re probably up to no good.”
Read the first two chapters below…