Seriously Weird

A funny, accessible and brilliantly written new novel from award-winning children’s novelist Gene Kemp. Troy is a boy living in a secret locked-up world. His family think he is crazy, mad, nutty, barmy – all except his mother, who prefers to pretend there’s nothing really wrong. Even she has to take a bit of notice when policeman start nocking on doors and Troy gets excluded from school. It takes Mrs Shepard the science teacher, and a chocolate bean competition, for those around him to realise that Troy’s view of life may be odd – but in its own way remarkably brilliant. This exceptional book is about a boy who has Asperger’s Syndrome – but it is equally about how families and the outside world respond to people who see things differently.