10 year-old Hamish Ellerby is just an ordinary boy, who lives in Britain’s 4th most boring town, Starkley, but he is sitting in his schoolroom one day, and he is getting told off by his teacher, when everything stops. Hamish’s teacher’s spit in mid-air, the school bully’s, Grenville, finger was half way up his nose.

As time goes on, Hamish notices this happening more and more, but the odd thing, is that Hamish can move in the Pauses (as he calls them). But one day in a Pause, things came. riding their scaly horse things.

It’s a world-wide invasion, but are Hamish and the PDF strong enough to defeat the WorldStoppers and the Terribles?

Read this book to find out.

This is an amazing book. So amazing that it doesn’t matter if you read the second one before the first one!