Name: Maddi Alve
Book Number: 10/20
Title: Johnny Whistler and the Royal Ruby Circus
Author: Tom Bradley
Genre. New Zealand Literature


This book is about when Johnny and Debbie met there Aunt Elsie that they have never heard of before. They realize that she works at a circus and shes not going so great since her husband passed away recently. Her husband always wore a ruby ring and since he passed away he had no time to tell Aunt Elise where he put the ring and shes been looking for it ever since. Johnny is interested to become a performer at the circus but Debbie is not too interested at the start. But then she wants to so they do. They put posters up all over town so people could see the sign so they could go to the circus. They start there first performance everything is going well everyone is enjoying it. But then something goes horribly wrong the circus is about to fall down and they need to find a way to get everyone out of the circus so they dont get hurt. Then Johnny realizes what he meant by he kept it close do his heart. Do they find the Ruby Ring?

I would recommend this book if you like short stories. I would rate this book a 7/10

I enjoyed reading this book because it was interesting and a bit of a mystery.