Comic fiction for 8+ kids who know what it’s like to be highly strung
‘I’ve been making lists ever since I could write. It relaxes me. By writing my worries down, I feel as if I’m removing them from my mind and leaving them on the paper … ‘
‘CAMP involves a gazillion horrible things I’m bad at or scared of. But trying to explain why I’m scared of CAMP is impossible. People don’t understand what it’s like to have a fizzy, jumpy, ‘what if’ brain like mine.‘
The fretful, funny, anxious Michaela Mason has left the city and her best friends and everything she knows to move to THE COUNTRY. Not only is the country boring but it’s teeming with mosquitoes (the most dangerous animal in the world), venomous spiders, cruel-beaked chickens (best roasted with chips), and DOGS! (She hears the word like that, in fat capital letters and all screechy, like in a horror movie.) And what about school CAMP?!
Michaela Mason’s Big List of 23 Worries and Michaela Mason’s Big List of Camp Worries are the first two books in the series for 8+ year olds, from Scholastic Australia.
Praise for the Michaela Mason series:
“Highly recommended. I love Michaela Mason! She is not brave, she is not even very resilient… but she is a survivor, and she has heart.” Carolyn Hull, Readplus.
“… Relatable, fast-paced, funny and heartfelt. Most enjoyable.” Marita Thomson, CBCA Reading Time
“This is a lovely start to what will be a delightful new series that celebrates friendship, creativity and individuality in an accessible and beautiful way.” Ashleigh Meikle, The Book Muse.
Available from Harry Hartog, Constant Reader, Dymocks and any place you can buy books.