A brilliantly funny, epic and moving adventure

Jenny Pearson, author of Operation Nativity

Brilliantly written and very, very funny. I would have been utterly obsessed with this book as a kid.

Ross Montgomery, author of I Am Rebel

The hilarious new fantasy adventure from the author of Charlie Changes Into a Chicken.

Alex is a normal, everyday kid, living in a normal, everyday city. Axel is a monster-slaying hero, living in a world of magic. Unfortunately, when the two boys mysteriously swap places, each of them ends up being mistaken for the other.

With zero experience of heroism, Alex is thrust into an epic quest to defeat the evil Felonius Gloam, who has stolen the Book of Lifetales and is using it to unravel the very fabric of the world of Aërth.

Meanwhile, Axel is faced with double maths, a gran who's six months behind on the rent, and a crucial chess tournament he's got to win – when he doesn't even know how to play.

Can the two boys complete their Impossible Quests and find a way back to their own lives, or will they both discover they don't have a life to come back to . . . ?

'Brilliantly written and very, very funny' - Ross Montgomery, author of I Am Rebel.

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Product details

ISBN
9780241573136
Published
2024-05-02
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children's UK; Puffin
Weight
308 gr
Height
197 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
25 mm
Age
J, 02
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
384

Author

Biographical note

Sam Copeland is an author, which has come as something of a surprise to him. He is from Manchester and now lives in London with two smelly cats, three smelly children and one relatively clean-smelling wife.

He is the author of the bestselling Charlie Changes Into a Chicken series (the first book of which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize), Uma and the Answer to Absolutely Everything and Greta and the Ghost Hunters. With Jenny Pearson, he has also written Tuchus & Topps Investigate: The Underpants of Chaos and Tuchus & Topps Investigate: The Attack of the Robot Librarians.

Despite legal threats, he refuses to stop writing.