A review I wrote in 2020:

Explorers on Witch Mountain (Book 2) by Alex Bell (4.5 stars)

Following on speedily from reading
book one in the series, The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club, I couldn’t wait to read this and it didn’t
disappoint!

Stella Starflake Pearl, desperate to go on her next expedition, is trapped at home by a fearsome
witch’s vulture keeping watch over her house. She is quite literally under house arrest (sound
familiar?). When the Explorers Club members come to a formal dinner at Stella’s house, events go
from bad to worse when her dad, Felix, is attacked by the vulture and sets off to Witch Mountain
to confront the fearsome witch Jezzybella.

But everyone knows that nobody returns alive from Witch Mountain and Felix hasn’t even heard of
the latest Witch Mountain trap, the poisonous rabbits. Stella and her young explorer friends set off
on a rescue mission.

I loved this and I’m now rushing to get hold of Book 3, Explorers on Black Ice Bridge. Highly
recommended for intrepid and adventurous young (and not so young) explorers, especially 8-12s. ( )

Stella está ansiosa por embarcarse en otro viaje a algún lugar desconocido. En su anterior expedición, vivió un sinfín de sucesos maravillosos y descubrió sus orígenes como princesa del hielo.

Ahora la aventura, en forma de buitre gigantesco y temible, ronda ya su jardín. Esta horrible bestia rapta a Felix, su padre adoptivo, y lo lleva a la cueva de la temible bruja Jezzybella.

Stella, Ethan, Shay, Habichuela y un nuevo amigo, Gideon Galahad Smythe, experto en pícnics de expedición del Club del Felino de la Jungla, irán al rescate de Felix y se enfrentarán a todo tipo de monstruos peligrosísimos, comerciantes poco honestos y objetos embrujados, y quizá, sólo quizá, aprenderán un montón de cosas sobre sí mismos.