Andy Robb

Fourteen-year-old Archie is a Geek to his core. In the world of role-playing games, he's a Level 5 Mage, capable of summoning the Undead. In this world, things are rather different. With no rule book to navigate Life's Big Challenges – warring parents, a crass step-father, orc-like school bullies and crap hair – he's teetering on the brink… Then a Beautiful Girl appears in his Geeky world… Despite the fact that the closest he's come to an encounter with a girl is painting an Elven miniature, Archie embarks on a Daring Quest to win her heart. Geek meets girl … what could possibly go right?

Close Encounters of the Girl Kind

Geekhood

Archie is a Geek to his core – and despite having a Close Encounter with Sarah at the beginning of term, he’s still completely clueless about girls. Enter Clare – an older woman (she’s sixteen) who Archie meets on his weekend trip to see his dad and his nightmare step-mum, Jane. Clare and Archie hit it off – and she comes up with a brilliant, foolproof way to get their crushes to notice them: pretend to be going out with one another! What can possibly go wrong? With school, Sarah, a fake girlfriend and his insane family to deal with, Archie and his mates step-up the nerdiness and go Live Action Role-play gaming. Ladies and gentlemen, we are entering a new era… A warm, witty tale of being a teenage geek, Geekhood captures the awkwardness of being a teenager perfectly. Geekhood has won huge acclaim and deserves a place in the heart of any teenager with even slightly geeky leanings. "A deliciously tender story that wittily captures the ecstasy and agony of being a teenager." Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4kids. "This book makes being a geek sound pretty cool to me!" True Blood's Stephen Moyer.

Geekhood: Mission Improbable

A boy who ended up attending his own funeral, a man who lived to be an eye-boggling 930 years old, a duo of jail-breakers who got away with it ... loads of really jammy things happened to people in Bible times Andy Robb, author of the Professor Bumblebrain series, has collected together the very jammiest passages of Scripture in 50 Jammiest Bible Stories. Andy's witty and conversational style, plus colourful illustrations, brings God's Word to life for children. Among the collection are the stories of how Jesus healed a man blind from birth, how He irked the religious leaders with what He said and did, how His followers set up the very first churches -- and how we can fit into the ongoing story of God's family today as well. Each story has a cliff-hanger ending and a Bible passage to look up to find out what happened next. The Bible tells us about some remarkable events, and this book will help to introduce readers to the equally remarkable God who lies behind those events.

50 Jammiest Bible Stories

Watch this parable of Jesus come to life as your child moves the special cut-out figure from page to page.

The Lost Sheep

Smashed

When his dad moves out, Jamie tries to fill his shoes. He needs to become head of the household – right? With his mum dealing with the aftermath of toxic masculinity at its finest, and his little sister Bex struggling to understand what’s going on, Jamie has to navigate the choppy waters of what he thinks it means to be a man. Having learned that the best way to deal with feelings is to push them down as far as they’ll go, he finds help from an unlikely source. Drinking makes him feel invincible – Super Jim can take on anything – and anyone… But how long will it be before this particular well of wisdom runs dry? And what will it take for Jamie to realise that help was at hand all along? From the author of the Geekhood series, the first of which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Award, comes Smashed by Andy Robb. Funny, touching, with a narrator readers’ will instantly love, Smashed is a rollercoaster exploration of young masculinity.

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