The Astounding Broccoli Boy

8 best books like The Astounding Broccoli Boy (Frank Cottrell Boyce): The Boy At the Back of the Class, To Be A Cat, Pugs of the Frozen North, The Nowhere Emporium, The Parent Agency, The Person Controller, Demon Dentist, Time Travelling with a Hamster

The Boy At the Back of the Class

Author

Onjali Q. Rauf

There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it.

He's eight years old (just like me), but he's very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn't like sweets - not even lemon sherbets, which are my favourite!

But the truth is, Ahmet...

To Be A Cat

Author	Matt Haig
ISBN	0370332067

Barney Willow thinks life couldn't get any worse. He's weedy, with sticky-out ears. Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting him - Barney has no idea why. And headteacher-from-hell Miss Whipmire seems determined to make every second of Barney's existence a complete misery! Worst of all, Dad has been...

Pugs of the Frozen North

Author	Philip Reeve
ISBN	0192734571

The Race to the Top of the World! It comes around once in a lifetime, and the prize? Your heart's desire. Shen and Sika can't resist the chance to win, but competition is fierce. The path to victory is littered with snow trolls, sea monsters, and a gang of particularly hungry yetis. But Shen and Sika have...

The Nowhere Emporium

Author	Ross MacKenzie
ISBN	1782501258

When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident. Before long, the 'shop from nowhere' -- and its owner, Mr Silver -- draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment. Recruited as Mr Silver's apprentice, Daniel learns...

The Parent Agency

Author	David Baddiel
ISBN	0062405446

A boy travels to an alternate world where kids get to choose their own parents in this zany, internationally bestselling adventure, which combines the be-careful-what-you-wish-for humor of The Chocolate Touch with the classic appeal of Roald Dahl.

Barry Bennett is sick of his parents....

The Person Controller

Author

David Baddiel

From the author of THE PARENT AGENCY comes a thrilling, funny and touching new adventure.Fred and Ellie are twins. But not identical (because that's impossible for a boy and a girl). They do like all the same things, though. Especially video games. Which they are very good at. They aren't that good, however,...

Demon Dentist

Author	David Walliams
ISBN	0007453566

David Walliams wants to be Roald Dahl so badly it hurts and illustrator Tony Ross has obviously been told to rip-off Quentin Blake's drawing style as shamelessly as humanly possible...

... but, despite this twofold style swiping, I can't help but love these books. There is such evident glee...

Time Travelling with a Hamster

Author	Ross Welford
ISBN	0008156328

“My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve.

The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn’t been for his ‘time machine’…”

When Al Chaudhury discovers...