The Life of Riley: Beginner's Luck (Paperback)

Simon James Green (Author)

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The Life of Riley: Beginner's Luck

The Life of Riley: Beginner's Luck

£6.99 £4.00

The Life of Riley: Beginner's Luck

£6.99 £4.00

Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award

A hilarious middle-grade novel about one boy's quest to get rid of a ridiculous amount of bad luck!

After a traumatic run-in with the fortune teller from a visiting funfair – thanks to an unfortunately-timed sneeze – Riley finds himself CURSED.

Life as he knows it quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters – from accidentally supergluing himself to his classmates and ruining the school football team’s sponsorship deal, to flooding his house and losing class 4’s pet rabbit – Riley knows the bad luck is out to get him.

Enter new kid: Brad Chicago. He’s super-cool, well-groomed and stylish, with an excellent stationery collection. And for some reason he wants to be Riley’s friend. Can Riley get rid of the curse before Brad discovers he’s a walking disaster?

  • Laugh-out-loud funny, warm-hearted and anarchic in a way that readers will love.
  • Brought to life with Aleksei Bitskoff's lively, humorous illustrations.
  • Perfect for fans of Kid Normal, David Solomons' My Brother is a Superhero and David Baddiel.
  • Award-winning author Simon James Green is best known for his funny books for teens. This is his first book for middle-grade readers.
  • Publisher: Scholastic
  • ISBN: 9780702303623
  • Pages: 272
  • Weight: 0.190
Simon James Green is an award-winning author of 12 books for children and young adults. As well as co-writing Jack Splash with Tom Daley, his other middle-grade books include Sleepover Takeover (winner of the InspiRead Award 2023), Life of Riley: Beginner’s Luck, (shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award) and Finn Jones Was Here, which is currently long listed for the UK Literacy Association Book Awards 2024. He has written two picture books - Llama Glamarama and Fabulous Frankie - both illustrated by Garry Parsons. His young adult novels include Noah Can’t Even (picked by WHSmith as one of the most important LGBT books of the last 50 years); Noah Could Never; Alex in Wonderland (nominated for the Carnegie medal); Heartbreak Boys, You’re the One That I Want (shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Diverse Book Award, and winner of the Bristol Teen Book Award), Gay Club! (nominated for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023) and Boy Like Me.

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