Deeply moving and utterly gripping . . . Stewart Foster carries off an astonishing feat of storytelling in this exceptional book' Julia Eccleshare, lovereading.co.uk Build high-quality webinars with easy-to-use engagement features and production tools. Try Cvent Webinar for free Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments This novel was heart-warning and brilliant. Although quite slow~paced, I managed to read this within a day and truly loved it. Does it eat people? Does it bite people and tear them apart, and splat blood everywhere like in Jaws?’

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The aquarium guide holds his arms out as wide as he can reach. ‘You may have seen whale sharks on TV – they’re often mistaken for actual whales – but you can tell them apart by the ridge on their head and the sharpness of their teeth.’ But nothing. This is a school trip; we’re not going to be allowed to visit these places if you misbehave. You’re here to learn, not be the joker. Do you understand?’ Sometimes, the best way to help ourselves get over the fear of something going wrong is to make out a plan “just in case.” If you’re afraid of losing your job, plan what to do if that happens. If you’re scared of a fire breaking out in your house, make sure you have a program that everyone knows to follow if such a thing happens. Worrying about what could go wrong is sometimes heightened by not knowing what you would do if those things ever went wrong. Having a plan can be just what you need to make you feel better and stop worrying. Final thoughtsI’ll just have one last wash before I go. I rub my hands together; they sting and they’re red-raw like a pomegranate. It won’t happen if I stay home, but if I don’t go I’ll feel bad for not telling anyone and I’ll feel even worse for being the only person in my class who is still alive.

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Our second protagonist in which we split perspective with is Dan. Dan is angry; angry that his brother left him; angry that his parents won’t stop fighting but most of all: angry at the world. Why can’t he stop bullying Alex? Why can’t his brother come home? Why does everything have to be so unfair? All the things that could go Wrong" has also won many school and library awards, and continues to be shortlisted.

Then the boys’ mums arrange for Alex to help Dan with a raft he was building with his brother. Ever since Ben went to prison, Dan has had angry outbursts and spends all his time in a lonely cave by the seafront, working on Shooting Star. The last thing he wants (and the last thing Alex wants) is for “that weird kid at school” to come and mess it up for him. I found the unwillingness to tell an adult about the bullying (from Alex) particularly frustrating. Being a Mum myself I always encourage open communication, and fine it so frustrating to hear that a situation cannot be communicated because XYZ may happen. Then again, I am not a 12 year old with social anxiety, I am a 27 year old with social anxiety and a very strong opinion. I look over his shoulder. Sophie and George C. have stayed behind and are standing by a tank like they’re waiting for me to play up or do something funny.

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The guide points to his own teeth and they light up in the dark. Behind him, fish and tiny turtles are swimming around in a giant tank full of coloured lights. There are tanks all around me. It’s like I’m in the water with the fish. I could reach out and touch them if they’d keep still. A big yellow fish swims above my head, slows, twitches its tail and then disappears behind me. All The Things That Could Go Wrong is a very important coming of age story about how we treat people and how we don't really know what they are going through. That being said, I am clearly not of the age range for this book, and a lot of things did frustrate me. Alex’s OCD makes him see and feel germs everywhere, so he wears gloves in public, which often makes him a target of bullying—his private “Worry Lists” don’t seem to keep his phobias from multiplying. Meanwhile, Dan adores and always followed his big brother, Ben, but when Ben had to go away (exactly why and where become a light mystery), Dan fell under the spell of bully Sophie, who makes Alex her primary target. Dan unconsciously tries to hide his hurt and anger about Ben by working on a raft the two had begun. In short, alternating first-person chapters, the two Year Seven British boys give readers access to their inner thoughts and pain. When their friendly mums arrange for them to work on Dan’s raft together, Alex must confront his debilitating phobias and Dan must hide the relationship from Sophie. As work together slowly turns into mutual understanding and finally, friendship, readers also see the causes and effects of both bullying and empathy. The high tension and realism (including pop culture, family dynamics, etc.) will keep the interest of avid and reluctant readers alike. Alex, Dan, and Sophie all appear to be white, and the book assumes the white default. Wow, they really amped up the fantastical nature of this story for the movie, didn't they? Granted, it's been a while since I've seen it, but I remembered something a little harder to believe and a little less mundane. The only two instances that seemed familiar were Edward's encounter with the "giant" and meeting the two-headed woman. Otherwise, this mostly sad and philosophical tale focuses more about Edward's relationship with his son, our narrator. The question is still whether Edward's stories are made up, but an extra level is added, seemingly implying the stories might have been made up by William, the son, instead. Still, an interesting meditation on the relationship between father and son, both of which would like for the son to see the father as larger-than-life, a Great man, a Big Fish. Read more On the single, the Toronto-born pop musician recounts the story of encountering an unexpected savior at a time when it felt as though everything was going wrong.Blur” is the latest single from All The Things That Could Go Wrong and has arrived alongside a music video directed by Iris Kim. The visual places Orlando in the thralls of nature as he explores an aesthetically-pleasing campground in the woods. Dan is set up as a secondary protagonist, and the reader is supposed to sympathize with him because his older brother is in juvenile detention for stealing a car and robbing a store. Dan bullies Alex because Dan hangs out with bullies at school, bullies who aren't really friends to him, either. While Dan is a fully fleshed-out character in this story, the other bullies - the Georges and Sophia - are just random evil flat characters. Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic.