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This is a comic school-and-family story in which Tom’s everyday mishaps lead to a project about family, friends and furry creatures. His research reveals surprising family details, including how his parents ended up together.
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This is a comic school-and-family story in which Tom’s everyday mishaps lead to a project about family, friends and furry creatures. His research reveals surprising family details, including how his parents ended up together.
Pete Johnson
A comic family-and-school story about a child navigating ambitious parents, a new school and competing ideas about attention. Its main appeal is the child’s perspective on adult expectations and the awkward question of whether independence can become neglect.
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Browse all 7 booksRobert Muchamore
This is an action-led coming-of-age story about a troubled child entering an extraordinary spy-training organisation. It offers perseverance, teamwork and personal change alongside danger, bereavement, coercion and language some families may wish to discuss.
Philip Ridley
A comic adventure about an underestimated child confronting a frightening threat, while the adults and children around him face the consequences of past choices. Its imaginative monster story also explores belonging, courage and changing relationships.
Keith Negley
This is a light, observant story about a child trying to understand a parent’s changed life. Its humour comes through the gap between the dad imagined by the child and the dad seen at home.
Stephanie Blake
Expect a quick, joke-led read built around repetition, animal characters and toilet humour. The visual style is bold and simple, while the plot uses a wolf encounter and a comic reversal.
Morris Gleitzman
This is an emotionally serious but often humorous story about a child trying to solve an illness he cannot control. Its interest lies in Colin’s urgency, bold schemes and changing understanding of help, responsibility and loss.