There’s a warning attached to this book. It is side-splittingly funny and it will find you rolling around on the carpet - laughing hysterically and gasping for air. Focus on, an elite boys boarding school, a boy called Spud, parents who are well beyond the lunatic fringe and a cast of stranger than fiction characters – friendships and insanity pervade the ether and together the first steps to manhood are taken. A wonderful debut, written in diary form.
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It's 1990. Apartheid is crumbling, Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison and thirteen-year-old Spud Milton is about to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school. Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, a nutty granny and a dormitory full of strange characters, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. With only his wits and his diary, he takes readers on a rowdy boarding school romp full of illegal midnight swims, catastrophic cricket matches, ghostbusting escapades, girls and disastrous holidays. South African comedian John van de Ruit invites the reader into the mind of a young boy whose eyes are being opened to love, friendship and complete insanity!
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Spud and determined it is suitable for children aged 11-14 years old
Spud features in the following genres: Debuts of the Month, Recommendations, Featured Books for 13+ readers, School Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 11+ readers
Spud is available in Paperback
Spud was written by John Van De Ruit and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Spud has 389 pages
£8.99
