Millions
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Illustrated by Steven Lenton
Ages 9 to 112004 Winner
The CILIP Carnegie Medal
2005 Nominee
Branford Boase Award
Synopsis
Frank Cottrell Boyce's story, Millions, is the tale of a not-so-great train robbery. Read aloud by actor Stephen Tompkinson, this Carnegie Medal-winning story is an absolute treasure!
Two brothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma - how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking - the bungling bank-robbers are closing in too.
Pizzas or World Peace, what would you choose?
Damian's voice leaps off the page and into your heart. Millions is fresh, funny, touching and wise.The Times
Deliciously funnyGuardian
Pure goldScotsman