Anton Clifford-Motopi

SHORTLISTED: 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers SHORTLISTED: 2024 Readings Children's Prize Most kids meet their parents when they're born. All they need to do to impress them is poop, sleep and make goo-goo ga-ga sounds. But I'm twelve. None of that is going to impress my father.Sam thinks he's a weird-looking white kid with an afro. He...

Dad likes rules. Mum likes order. My siblings like breaking both. Leon is having a bad time – his best friend Jacob has moved to Alaska, he's not allowed to look after Jacob's cat, he has to be a buddy to the weird new kid, and no one in his family listens to him. The only place he feels calm...