Böcker av Helen Rutter

Billy is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dream. He wants to be a stand-up comedian when he grows up: delivering pinpoint punch-lines and having audiences hang on his every hilarious word. A tough career for anyone, but surely impossible for Billy, who has a stammer. How will he find his voice, if his voice won't let him speak?

It's Sliding Doors for middle grade as an indecisive boy makes aset of choices which propel him down different story pathways.

With help from his grandma, Josh finds a way to quieten his overactive ?Brian' in this gently humorous and empathetic tale about family and mental health by bestseller Helen Rutter.Josh has always called his brain Brian. Brian is Josh's best friend, helping him with tests and giving him brilliant moneymaking ideas. But he can also be Josh's worst enemy, keeping him awake at night worrying, and telling him that his family's problems are all Josh's fault. When the arguments at home get really bad, Josh is sent to live with his grandma who lives in a weird shack in the middle of nowhere, so at first Brian's voice in Josh's head gets louder and louder, and he feels out of control. But as he starts to help his grandma in the garden, growing their own food, and with all the jobs that need to be done around the shack, he starts to realise that she understands him and Brian better than anyone.

A boy discovers he has incredible talent for mind control - he'sa junior Derren Brown! - but will it solve all his problems or justget him into deep trouble?

Lacey Layton's smart tongue and quick temper are constantly getting her confined to isolation at school. But there's a lot more to Lacey that most people never see, and when she gets sent to lunch-time music lessons to keep her out of trouble, she discovers a love and talent for the piano that opens up a whole new world for her.Just as she's really beginning to make progress, her music teacher has to leave, which throws Lacey back into turmoil. Will she go back to her self-destructive ways or will music offer her a way to save her from herself?

10 year old Archie Crumb is having a tough time. Picked-on at school, picked last for any team, his dad has a new wife and little daughter and not much time for Archie, and his mum is struggling. But things start looking up when Archie comes off his bike, bumps his head, and literally sees stars...