A chapter book by Jack Trevithick COMING
Exchange week with the enemy school over the hill. Enemy classrooms, enemy chips, enemy regatta crew — and one entirely unexpected ally.
The Porthgullow Swap carries Polperran’s young readers over the hill and straight into enemy territory. For one nerve-tingling week, familiar routines are turned inside out: different classrooms, different dinner smells, chips that somehow belong to the wrong side, and a regatta crew no one in Polperran is quite ready to cheer for. With rivalry fizzing in the salt air, the story keeps its warmest surprise for an unexpected ally.
For children moving confidently into chapter books, Jack Trevithick gives the page a lively, companionable bounce: school-day comedy, seaside rivalry and just enough worry to make the next chapter irresistible. The peril stays firmly age-appropriate — bruised pride, awkward swaps and the wobble of being somewhere new — while the humour offers steady reassurance. It is ideal for shared reading, bedtime instalments, or newly independent readers building stamina.
Within Polperran Adventures, The Porthgullow Swap lets readers aged 7–9 see their beloved village from the other side of the hill. Like the wider Little Chough Press world, it helps children grow up alongside Polperran: noticing loyalties, testing first judgements, and discovering that even the “enemy” school may hold someone worth listening to. It touches the series’ familiar threads of friendship, community and Cornish coastal life.