Helen Rutter

Welcome to The Game - an exciting summer camp where you will make new friends, build resilience and test your limits! You will be put into a team of five with strangers, no screens, no shortcuts. Everyone starts from scratch and has to make friends and find a way to the finish line together. Tig has been packed off to Game Camp to gain confidence, but is immediately wary of the other team members: bossy and ultra-competitive Maya, intense Joni, grumpy screen-addicted Frank and quiet, sporty Jake. They are all so different: but must find a way to work together. They embark on a series of physical and mental challenges, with Tig (and therefore the reader) choosing the path. When the team start noticing strange things happening around them in the woods - ghostly noises, wild weather and suspicious-looking Game Camp staff - they uncover a mystery to solve. Will you lead the team to victory, or into chaos? And will they all find out a lot about their true selves during the process...? You, the reader, will make choices for the team throughout this story. YOU are in charge of the Game! An interactive book with multiple pathways for kids to follow - Sliding Doors for a younger audience! An empowering, highly engaging format and a cracking mystery story all in one. think THE CRYSTAL MAZE meets the challenges section of an episode of THE TRAITORS!

Vinny needs support from his agony-aunt mum, but she’s too busy helping other people to notice in this empathetic tale about family and mental health by bestseller Helen Rutter. Vinny’s got problems – lots of them. His family's falling apart, and his best mates have dumped him for some really annoying girls. He should be able to turn to his mum for help – she’s an online life coach who answers other people’s problems for a living. But she’s too busy to see that Vinny is really struggling. Unable to solve his own issues, Vinny starts replying to unanswered posts on an old blog of his mum’s. At first the solutions seem easy, and he can be as hilariously honest as any 12-year-old boy would be, but what will happen when Vinny realises he’s out of his depth? Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.

Fred can't make a decision about anything - his parents always tell him what to do, from what to eat every day to which secondary school to choose. That's how Fred has found himself a pupil at the high-pressure, strict Gains School, when he'd much rather be going to Browtree, with its brilliant art department and kind teachers. As Fred waits for the bus to his new school, he sees the bus for Browtree pull up - and a wild, thrilling, thought strikes him. Should he jump on this bus and pretend he's a new student at Browtree? Will he be brave enough to follow a different path for once? You, the reader, will stand in Fred's shoes and make decisions alongside him throughout this story. You'll help him stand-up for what he believes in, learn what he truly loves to do, make good friends and face choices about whether to swerve or walk into drama. YOU are in charge of The Boy With Big Decisions! An interactive book with multiple pathways for kids to follow - Sliding Doors for a younger audience! A book to encourage empathy and kindness in young readers Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Lisa Thompson and Jenny Pearson.

Ha az élet fura, csinálj poént belőle! Billy Plimpton nagy álmot dédelget: ha nagy lesz, híres humorista akar lenni. Máris rengeteg viccet tud, de van egy probléma, ami folyton az útjába áll: a dadogása. Billy eleinte azt gondolja, hogy a legkönnyebben úgy győzheti le a dadogását, ha... ha nem szól egy szót sem. Így a többi gyerek az új iskolájában nem hallja dadogni. Hamarosan rá kell azonban jönnie, hogy ez semmire sem megoldás. (Kezdjük, ott, hogy irtó nehéz ám úgy viccet mesélni, hogy az ember egy szót sem szól.) Ahogy Billy rendíthetetlenül halad a színpad felé, rengeteg vicces (és néhány nem annyira vicces) dolog történik vele. Végül az egész iskola megtudja... De ha azt hiszed, hogy Billy Plimptont bármi is eltántoríthatja, akkor nagyon tévedsz! Ismerd meg Billyt és a sikere titkát!

Billy Plimpton took to the stage and captivated the crowd at the triumphant ending to The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh, and in the sequel, he's going to go viral. Celebrity comedian Leo Leggett takes Billy under his wing, as his new sidekick: when Leo tweets a clip of his stand-up act, Billy suddenly becomes the most famous boy in the country. At first, this is GREAT - all the kids at school think he's cool and he gets to appear on his favourite morning TV show. But Leo's motives turn out to be shady and Billy must turn the tables in a very public way... The idea for this story came from Helen Rutter's son, who has a stammer: she wanted to write the book that he would love to read, starring a child like him. packed with brilliant jokes and one-liners to make kids roar with laughter a book to encourage empathy and kindness in young readers.