The Switch is an amazing book that makes you reflect on your own circumstances. It's about a wealthy boy who's control freak parents want him under watch day and night. It's this that drives him to one night wish that he was another person.
The next morning, he wakes up to discover himself ... Read review
For Tad Spencer, only son of a fabulously wealthy businessman, every day is like ... more
Christmas. Until he makes the mistake of wishing he was someone else. The next morning he wakes up as Bob Snarby, trapped in a cruel and squalid funfair world inhabited by hopeless criminals, mysterious fortune tellers and - worst of all - the murderous Finn.
Advantages: An excellent, light humoured read Disadvantages: None
The Switch is an amazing book that makes you reflect on your own circumstances. It's about a wealthy boy who's control freak parents want him under watch day and night. It's this that drives him to one night wish that he was another person.
The next morning, he wakes up to discover himself not in a georgian mansion but in a grotty stinking caravan in Great Yarmouth covered in dirt.
He has changed places with another boy and this is ... ...of circus travellers and finds himself being helped by his real wealthy father's charity. He finds that this charity carries out illegal testing on homeless kids and it makes him realise that his real father is an evil, spineless man.
This is a really good read, and parts of it are extremely funny. Suitable for children and adults even of all ages.
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The Switch is an amazing book that makes you reflect on your own circumstances. It's about a wealthy boy who's control freak parents want him under watch day and night. It's this that drives him to one night wish that he was another person. The next morning, he wakes up to discover himself not in a georgian mansion but in a grotty stinking caravan in Great Yarmouth covered in dirt. He has changed places with another boy and this is now his punishment. He runs away from these dirty, pigs of circus travellers and finds himself being helped by his real wealthy father's charity. He finds that this charity carries out illegal testing on homeless kids and it makes him realise that his real father is an evil, spineless man.
This is a really good read, and parts of it are extremely funny. Suitable for children and adults even of all ages.
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Product details
Type
Fiction
Genre
Children's
Title
The Switch
Author
Anthony Horowitz
ISBN
0744541239; 0744547725; 184428607X
Manufacturer's product description
The author of 'Granny' has produced a thrilling action-packed story, a kind of 'Trading Places' for kids, where Tad, the boy who has everything, wakes up as Bob Snarby in the shabbiest funfair imaginable.
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