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Confident Readers / Max Kowalski Didn’t Mean It

Max Kowalski Didn’t Mean It

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Max wants to be just like his dad – fun, loud and strong. He loves their trips to the fair and Dad’s no-nonsense attitude when Max gets in trouble at school. But everything changes when mysterious boxes and even more mysterious wads of cash start turning up at their house, and when Dad disappears it’s up to Max to look after his three sisters until Dad comes home. Determined to keep the family together, Max takes his sisters to a remote village in Wales, where he’s convinced that no one will find them. What Max doesn’t expect to find is new friends, new questions, and a very old legend. Just how easy is it to look after three kids with no grown ups around? Where did Dad go, really? And what are the whispers Max keeps hearing, of a golden dragon, asleep under the mountain?

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ISBN: 9780241351390 Author: Day, Susie Publisher: Puffin Publication Date: 5th September 2019 Imprint: Puffin Cover: Paperback Dewey: 823.92 (edition:23) Pages: 225 Language: English Edition: Paperback original Readership: General - Trade / Code: K Category: Confident Readers Subjects: Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues


‘A beautifully written emotional story to make you laugh and cry’
– Jacqueline Wilson

The problem with Wales, he thought, was that it was too far away.
But that was the point. To leave Southend behind. To get so far that no one would think to look for them there.

Max wants to be just like his dad – fun, loud and strong.
Instead, he always seems to be accidentally getting into fights and breaking things.

But when his dad starts bringing home mysterious boxes, even more mysterious wads of cash starts turning up.

Then Dad disappears. And it’s up to Max to look after his sisters until he comes home.

When they run away to a remote village in Wales, he’s convinced that no one will find them.

He’s Max Kowalski. Of course he can look after three kids with no grownups around!

Although, he can’t stop thinking about where Dad really went. And the whispers of a golden dragon, asleep under the Welsh mountains…

A funny and exquisitely written story, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson and Ross Welford.

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