The Midnight Gang
Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for… the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning…When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the children’s ward… But Tom is about to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime!The Midnight Gang tells an extraordinarily heartwarming and, of course, funny story of five children on a hospital ward – and on a quest for adventure! It is a story of friendship and magic – and of making dreams come true. Readers are set to be utterly spellbound by this heartfelt story that will bring magic to everyone.
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For Wendy and Henry, two keen readers
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Contents
Chapter 4: The Children’s Ward
Chapter 5: Pink-Frilly-Nightdress Boy
Chapter 10: Rabbit-Dropping Roulette
Chapter 11: Poop! Poop! and Double Poop!
Chapter 12: Following the Leader
Chapter 19: Positively Medieval
Chapter 21: A Voice in the Darkness
Chapter 25: The Boy Protests too much
Chapter 28: The Impossible Dream
Chapter 29: Balloons, Balloons and more Balloons
Chapter 31: The World’s Oldest Child
Chapter 36: The Unwelcoming Committee
Chapter 37: Not a Laughing Matter
Chapter 38: Deep, Deep Trouble
Chapter 40: Chocolate for Breakfast
Chapter 41: One Last Adventure?
Chapter 45: A One-Winged Pigeon
Chapter 47: Nothing is Impossible
Chapter 48: An Awfully Big Adventure
Chapter 55: Nestled in the Pillows
Chapter 58: Tonight is Forever
Chapter 59: “My Bottom Hurts!”
Chapter 60: Long-Forgotten Choc Ice
Welcome to the world of the Midnight Gang.
This is LORD FUNT HOSPITAL, in London, England. It was built many years ago and should have been demolished many years ago. The hospital was named in honour of its founder, the late Lord Funt.
Have a look inside LORD FUNT HOSPITAL.
Meet the patients in the children’s ward, high up on the forty-fourth floor of the hospital.
This is Tom. He is twelve and goes to a posh boarding school. He has hurt his head.
Amber is twelve. She has broken both of her arms and both of her legs, so has been in a wheelchair for some time.
Robin is also twelve. He is recovering from an operation to save his eyesight, and for now can’t see a thing.
George is eleven and from the East End of London, which makes him a cockney. He is recovering from having his tonsils taken out in an operation.
Sally is just ten and the youngest of the group. Because she is so ill, Sally spends most of her time sleeping.
Downstairs in one of the grown-ups’ wards is the oldest patient in the hospital – ninety-nine-year-old Nelly.
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