Millions

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Illustrated by Steven Lenton

Ages 9 to 11

2004 Winner

The CILIP Carnegie Medal

2005 Nominee

Branford Boase Award

26 March 2015
9781509806034
278 pages

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.
Deliciously funny
Pure gold