My Big Mouth Av Steven Camden

<p><b>Big lies mean big trouble for Jay and his mates. Funny and tender, <i>My Big Mouth</i>, CLiPPA Award-winner Steven Camden''s brilliant first novel for readers of 8 to 11, is about</b><b> friendship, storytelling and the price of being cool. Brilliantly illustrated throughout by Chanté Timothy.</b><br><br><i>‘They think I’m cool.’</i><br><i>Dom’s face wrinkled up, ‘Who does? Who cares?’</i><br><i>But I did. I cared.</i><br><br>When Dad leaves, ten-year-old Jay has questions. <br> Where has he gone? <br> Why did he go?<br><br> When no one can give Jay the answers he needs, he makes up his own stories, setting off a chain reaction that sees regular old Jay go from just another face in the crowd, to the centre of attention.<br><br> But being the coolest kid in school comes at a cost. And as things spiral out of control, can the most unlikely person help him learn the most important lesson of all?</p>