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novel name= The Sarah Jane Adventures – The Lost Boy |
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{{Infobox Story SMW
series=[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]] novelisations|
|novelisation of = The Lost Boy (TV story)
number= 6 |
|image= LostBoynovel.jpg
main character= [[Sarah Jane Smith]]|
|series = [[The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations]]
featuring= |
|number= 6
enemy= |
|main character= [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah Jane]], [[Maria Jackson|Maria]], [[Luke Smith|Luke]], [[Clyde Langer|Clyde]]
year= [[Earth]], [[2000s]] |
|featuring= Alan Jackson
writer= [[Gary Russell]] |
|featuring2= Chrissie Jackson
publisher= [[Penguin Character Books]] |
|featuring3= K9 Mark IV
release date= November 2008 (announced) |
|enemy= [[Mr Smith]]
format= Paperback Book, --- Pages |
|setting= [[Ealing]], [[2000s]]
isbn= ISBN 978-1405905060| |
|writer= Gary Russell
previous story= [[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (novelisation)]] |
|publisher= Penguin Character Books
next story= [[DW]]: [[The Stolen Earth]]}}
|release date= 6 November 2008
|format= Paperback book; 13 chapters, 114 pages
|isbn= ISBN 978-1-4059-0506-0
|prev= Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (novelisation)
|next= The Last Sontaran (novelisation)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a novelisation based on the [[2007 (releases)|2007]] TV story ''[[The Lost Boy (TV story)|The Lost Boy]]''. With its release, coinciding with the release of ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (novelisation)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' on the same day, all episodes of the [[Series 1 (SJA)|first series]] of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' were adapted. It is the first time a complete season of a ''[[Doctor Who]]''-related series had been fully adapted in novelisation form within a year of it finishing.


Scheduled for release in November 2008, a full year after the last release of novelisations, this book adapts ''[[The Lost Boy]]'', the final regular serial of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' first series. The release of this book will mean all episodes of the first season will have been adapted, the first time a complete season of a ''Doctor Who''-related series had been fully adapted in novelisation form within a year of original broadcast.
== Publisher's summary ==
''Life on Earth can be an adventure, too. You just need to know where to look.''


==Publisher's Cover Blurb==
Sarah Jane is shocked to see an appeal on television by distraught parents of a missing boy — Luke, her adopted son! She is accused of kidnapping him and has to hand Luke over to his "real" parents. But something doesn't seem right. With the help of her friends, Maria, Clyde and Alan, Sarah Jane uncovers a sinister alien plot and a shocking truth about a loyal "friend"...
''To be added''


==Illustrations==
== Chapter titles ==
''To be added''
# The nightmare begins
# Wall of lies
# Hidden danger
# A change of identity
# Conspiracy
# The powerful enemy
# Journey into terror
# The ordeal
# Kidnap
# A battle of wits
# Escape into danger
# Day of Armageddon
# The final phase


== Deviations from the Televised Story ==
== Characters ==
''To be added''
* [[Sarah Jane Smith]]
* [[Luke Smith]]
* [[Maria Jackson]]
* [[Clyde Langer]]
* [[Mr Smith]]
* [[Alan Jackson]]
* [[Chrissie Jackson]]
* [[Slitheen family]]
* [[Galagher (The Lost Boy)|Mrs Galagher]]
* [[Mr Robinson (The Lost Boy)|Mr Robinson]]
* [[Mrs Robinson (The Lost Boy)|Mrs Robinson]]
* [[Townsend (The Lost Boy)|Mrs Townsend]]
* [[George Bailey]]
* [[Nathan Goss]]
* [[Marco Goss]]
* [[June Goss]]
* [[K9 Mark IV|K9]]
* [[Cairn (The Lost Boy)|Mr Cairn]]
* [[Robert Lines]]


==Author, Writing and Publishing Notes==
== Worldbuilding ==
''To be added''
* Luke remembers the [[quantum theory]] and [[Colluphid]]'s [[Law of Hyper-Dimensional Mechanics]], and he could spot flaws in [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]'s theory of relativity.
* The house that the Stafford family was supposed to live in was [[26 Chalsey Grove]].
* [[Brendan Richards]] is still working in [[Silicon Valley]].
* In [[Ashley Stafford]]'s room are were posters of footballers, [[In-Demand]] and [[UNIT 4]].
* [[Nathan Goss]] was a fan of the [[Everton]] football club.
* [[Clyde Langer]] got [[Luke Smith]] into [[Kasabian]], next he wanted to show him the music of the [[Arctic Monkeys]].
* [[Peter Fairley]], [[Patricia Conway]], [[Ann Reynolds]] and [[Bryan Cawston]] are working for the [[Pharos Institute]].
* [[Bloorm Vungah Bart Slitheen]], [[Dax Fex Fize Slitheen]] and [[Korst Gogg Thek Lutiven-Day Slitheen]] stole the technology which made them able to use slim skin suits from the [[Blathereen family]].
* The Slitheen want to sell Luke's [[telekinetic energy]] at the ''[[Energies Black Market]]'' on [[Antara IV]].
* [[Ealing Broadway]] is Ealing's town centre.
* The [[Hambleton Estate]] is located at [[Grass Street]] at the [[Lake District]]. The Goss family lives at [[64 Grass Street]]. They moved there from [[Guildford]].
* [[Robert Lines]] is a member at the [[West Ealing Police]].
* The residents of Hambleton Estate often go shopping in [[Carlisle]].
* [[Old Forest Road]] leads into [[Bannerman Road]].
* Luke has a T-shirt from the [[Natural History Museum]].


==Associated Images==
=== Deviations from the televised story ===
''To be added''
* The novelisation features a specially written prologue. Written from [[Townsend (The Lost Boy)|Mrs Townsend]]'s point of view, it describes how the Goss family got killed by the Slitheen and how their skin suits were used to create the fictional [[Heidi Stafford|Heidi]] and [[Jay Stafford]].


==Publishing History (UK)==
== Continuity ==
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'''First Publication:'''
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* Paperback
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: Penguin Character Books
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==International Editions==
[[Category:SJA novelisations]]
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[[Category:2008 novels]]
 
[[Category:Slitheen novels]]
[[Category:Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations|Lost]]
[[Category:K9 novels]]
[[Category:2008 novels|Lost]]
[[Category:Stories set in Ealing]]
[[Category:Stories set in the 2000s]]

Latest revision as of 07:44, 15 March 2024

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The Lost Boy was a novelisation based on the 2007 TV story The Lost Boy. With its release, coinciding with the release of Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? on the same day, all episodes of the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures were adapted. It is the first time a complete season of a Doctor Who-related series had been fully adapted in novelisation form within a year of it finishing.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Life on Earth can be an adventure, too. You just need to know where to look.

Sarah Jane is shocked to see an appeal on television by distraught parents of a missing boy — Luke, her adopted son! She is accused of kidnapping him and has to hand Luke over to his "real" parents. But something doesn't seem right. With the help of her friends, Maria, Clyde and Alan, Sarah Jane uncovers a sinister alien plot and a shocking truth about a loyal "friend"...

Chapter titles[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. The nightmare begins
  2. Wall of lies
  3. Hidden danger
  4. A change of identity
  5. Conspiracy
  6. The powerful enemy
  7. Journey into terror
  8. The ordeal
  9. Kidnap
  10. A battle of wits
  11. Escape into danger
  12. Day of Armageddon
  13. The final phase

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Deviations from the televised story[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The novelisation features a specially written prologue. Written from Mrs Townsend's point of view, it describes how the Goss family got killed by the Slitheen and how their skin suits were used to create the fictional Heidi and Jay Stafford.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added