Cardboard Cowboys

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Kathleen's review - It happens over and over again . . . a child who is a bit different is bullied mercilessly, and of course begins to skip school. Then you've got what went wrong earlier when Lenny's big brother stuck up for him, and everything feels like it's Lenny's fault.

This is a poignant story about a bullied boy who adores his older brother, who loves English and poetry and composes haiku about all sorts of things, and who sings. He's a typical 12-year-old - quite naive in many ways, but far from stupid. I totally love this book!

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I'm not a genius. Not yet anyway. But Bruce is. Even though I found him living in a house made of cardboard, he's a massive genius. Fact. So this is mine and Bruce's story. You don't have to believe any of it happened, but it did. All of it.

Nobody at school can see past Lenny's size to the person within, and he's sick of trying to make them. So when lessons gets too tough, he always goes to his bench to think. At least there no one can see him. But one day, midway through lobbing his empty can of IrnBru into the river, he's stopped by Bruce. Bruce lives in a cardboard home hidden away by the banks, and he doesn't approve of people messing up his front lawn -But a bumpy start soon gives way to an unexpected friendship - and an epic roadtrip - that will change both of them for life.