The Bubble Wrap Boy
  • Published: 25 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141346298
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $21.00

The Bubble Wrap Boy

Discover the timeless classroom classic

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1 May 2014
Paperback
25 Jun 2014
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The new book from the award-winning Phil Earle, author of Heroic and Being Billy.

All my life I've been tiny Charlie from the Chinese Chippie, whose only friend is Sinus, the kid who stares at walls.

But I believe that everyone's good at something.

I've just got to work out what my something is...

Charlie's found his secret talent: skateboarding. It's his one-way ticket to popularity. All he's got to do is practice, and nothing's going to stop him - not his clumsiness, not his overprotective mum, nothing.

Except Charlie isn't the only one in his family hiding a massive secret, and his next discovery will change everything.

How do you stay on the board when your world is turned upside down?
  • Published: 25 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141346298
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $21.00
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About the author

Phil Earle

As a child Phil harboured dreams of becoming a professional footballer, only for his career to be ended by an addiction to Frazzles, as well as an all-round lack of ability. Instead, at the age of 26, he got a job in a bookshop and fell in love with children’s fiction. Eighteen years on, he is the author of fifteen novels, and delights in unearthing stories from everyday, innocuous events. He lives with his three children, on the side of a very steep hill in West Yorkshire.

Also by Phil Earle

Two Families to Call My Own
Two Places to Call Home
Heroic
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Praise for The Bubble Wrap Boy

Have finished BUBBLE-WRAP BOY. If happy tears/snot smeared across face were legal currency, @philearle would be rich. So warm, and so funny

Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers