![]() ![]() It's the story of 13 year old Australian boy Gerald, who comes from a relatively staid, standard suburban life enlivened mostly by fantasies of great deeds and heroics. ![]() THE BILLIONAIRE'S CURSE could very well be the same sort of book for kids of a current age.Definitely set in a more current day world - the book blurb starts off with "What would you do if you suddenly became a billionaire?". Perhaps that's partly because they were so easy to identify with, or had scenarios that the average kid could aspire to, dream of. Many a person "of a certain age" will attest that these books were the ones that got them started on a life-long love of reading. An adventure, a puzzle that had to be solved - by a bunch of kids of a similar age to yourself, all done and dusted and home in time for tea. Remember when you were a kid and The Adventurous Four, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven were just the ticket for an exciting read (okay so you have to be of "a certain age" for that to apply), but I still remember how satisfying those books were. ![]()
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