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The Bubble Wrap Boy
  • Published: 25 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141346298
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $27.99

The Bubble Wrap Boy

Discover the timeless classroom classic

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EBook
1 May 2014
Paperback
25 June 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: $27.99
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About the author

Phil Earle

Phil Earle was born, raised and schooled in Hull. His first job was as a care worker in a children's home, an experience that influenced the ideas behind Being Billy and Saving Daisy. He then trained as a drama therapist working in south London with traumatized and abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of being a bookseller, now working in children's publishing. His novel When the Sky Falls was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal and won the 2022 British Book Award for Children's Fiction Book of the Year, as well as the Books Are My Bag Readers Award and the Times Children's Book of the Year. Phil now lives on a hill in West Yorkshire with his wife, children, two dogs and a dragon called Baz.
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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