Nathan Nuttboard: Upstaged

Grade seven is not going well for Nathan Nuttboard. His mother is filling his sandwiches with pet food, his friends are crazy, his teacher is full of ‘interesting’ ideas and, when he is publicly dumped by the most popular girl in the class, he reckons things can’t get any worse.

But then he’s unexpectedly – and unwillingly – cast as the lead actor in the school’s end-of-year play and he soon realises that there are a lot worse things than pickle and catfood sandwiches…