How to Survive Without Grown-Ups
Published on 19. August 2021
288 pages
978-1-4711-9835-9 (ISBN)
Description
Get set for the new hilarious out-of-this-world adventure series for readers aged 8+ - this is the perfect new series for fans of Tom Gates, David Solomons and Star Wars! Highly illustrated throughout by the brilliantly funny Katie Abey.
Mum and Dad have left - gone to Mars, and they're never coming back . . .
FREEDOM AT LAST!
But this isn't one of Dad's weird jokes; it's REAL. It's up to ten-year-old Eliza and her genius little brother, Johnnie, to find out what's going on, and launch a rescue . . .
Can they handle vampire squids, a suspicious villain, a secret island full of traps and a trip into space? And - more importantly - will they ever get their parents back?
The funniest, zaniest, most out-of-this-world adventure you'll read all year! Look out for Eliza and Johnnie's second adventure, How to Survive Time Travel. Out now!
Mum and Dad have left - gone to Mars, and they're never coming back . . .
FREEDOM AT LAST!
But this isn't one of Dad's weird jokes; it's REAL. It's up to ten-year-old Eliza and her genius little brother, Johnnie, to find out what's going on, and launch a rescue . . .
Can they handle vampire squids, a suspicious villain, a secret island full of traps and a trip into space? And - more importantly - will they ever get their parents back?
The funniest, zaniest, most out-of-this-world adventure you'll read all year! Look out for Eliza and Johnnie's second adventure, How to Survive Time Travel. Out now!
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Larry Hayes
How to Survive Without Grown-Ups: Volume 1
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08/2021
Simon & Schuster Childrens Books
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Larry Hayes helps run an investment fund, and is a trustee for a homeless charity. On Fridays he homeschools his two kids, letting them decide what to study. In the future he hopes to become a treasure hunter, invent a yoghurt that makes you happy, and solve the maths behind the human brain. How to Survive Without Grown-Ups is his debut novel.
Katie Abey is an illustrator who lives in a teeny hobbit-like house in Derbyshire with a cat, a hedgehog, a small human and a rainbow-haired husband. Her work often features sarcastic-looking animals, and she likes using a lot of colour: she is allergic to Magnolia. Katie's ideas and strange sense of humour perfectly suit the field of children's books. She also creates stationery, greeting cards and clothing, which she sells on her website and in the two highstreet shops she and her partner own. When Katie is not drawing awkward cats and llamas, she enjoys tarot cards, walks and referring to herself in the third person.
Katie Abey is an illustrator who lives in a teeny hobbit-like house in Derbyshire with a cat, a hedgehog, a small human and a rainbow-haired husband. Her work often features sarcastic-looking animals, and she likes using a lot of colour: she is allergic to Magnolia. Katie's ideas and strange sense of humour perfectly suit the field of children's books. She also creates stationery, greeting cards and clothing, which she sells on her website and in the two highstreet shops she and her partner own. When Katie is not drawing awkward cats and llamas, she enjoys tarot cards, walks and referring to herself in the third person.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- 1. The Year 2053: Five Days After Our World Ended
- 2. How Not to Worry: (The Hard Way)
- 3. Day Zero: The Day My World Ended
- 4. How To Survive Without Parents
- 5. The News Was Bad
- 6. How to Sail a Pretend Pirate Ship
- 7. How to Survive a Narwhal Attack
- 8. How to Make It Up to Someone for Letting them Down/Drown
- 9. How to Save a Narwhal from Vampire Squid
- 10. How to Overcome Odds of Fifty Trillion to One
- 11. How to Talk Dolphin
- 12. How to Conquer Clashing Rocks
- 13. How to Survive the End of the World
- 14. How to Get Over It Being All Over
- 15. How to Escape from an Ice-Cream Paradise Trap
- 16. How to Survive in a Rainforest
- 17. How to Talk Your Way Out of Trouble
- 18. How to Trust Someone You Don't Trust
- 19. How to Get Your Parents to do What You Want
- 20. How to Wait
- 21. How to Stop a Centipede Biobot Burrowing into Your Baby Brother's Head
- 22. How to ask for Help
- 23. How to Eat Pancakes with Exploded Eyeball Goo
- 24. How to Survive a Chokey Full of Centibots
- 25. How to Fly
- 26. The News was Hopeful and Amazing
- 27. How to Escape from a Centibot Beach Ball
- 28. How to Ride a Giraffe
- 29. How to Trust Someone
- 30. How to Escape from an Alpha Vampire Squid and a Maniac Billionaire Armageddonist: (At the Same Time)
- 31. How to Steal a Rocket
- 32. How to Steer a Rocket
- 33. The News wasss Very Bad
- 34. How to Win a Space Race
- 35. How to Escape from a Maniac Billionaire Armageddonist: When He's Holding the Alpha Vampire Squid
- 36. How to Escape from a Maniac Billionaire Armageddonist and His Biobot Zoo of Zombie Doom
- 37. How Not to Cry Over Spilled Milk
- 38. How to Survive a Bomb in Space
- 39. How to Make Your Parents Want You Again
- 40. Six Weeks Later
- Editor's Note
- Appendix 1
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
