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Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Illustrated by Steven Lenton
Ages 9 to 11
Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the 2017 Carnegie Medal and selected for the Tom Fletcher Book Club, Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an adventure about the Blythes: a big, warm, rambunctious family who live on a small farm and sometimes foster children. Now Prez has come to live with them. But, though he seems cheerful and helpful, he...
Details
352 pages
Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Reviews
Full of heart and emotion that might just bring a tear to your eye. If it doesn’t though it’s still got lightsabers and alien space dogs.Tom Fletcher, Tom Fletcher Book Club
Light-hearted and profoundSunday Times Book of the Week
Wholly original and exceptionally funnyThe Bookseller Book of the Month
a spiky, effervescent treat, like Spielberg's ET put in a blender with a bottle of Irn-Bru.The Financial Times