Synopsis
Bill Harris could not be more different from Benny Spinks,
the son of a famous footballer and his pop singer wife.
Bill knows nothing about football, is never picked for
teams and on one occasion scores 6 own goals in an infamous
7–0 defeat. Then, one day, a freak hair-drying
incident turns Bill into a Benny Spinks double. Bill
is offered look-alike work and so comes to meet the
real Benny.
The boys like one another instantly and hatch a plan
to swap lives for a day. On the actual day of the ‘switch’,
chaos and confusion reign when both Bill and Benny are
kidnapped by rival gangs. However, the boys manage to
trick the kidnappers (through a cunning plan involving
a nut allergy and a jar of peanut butter) and each returns
to his own life, having learnt something very important
about himself.
Cross-curricular links and themes
- Citizenship
and PSHE –
celebrity and identity
- English –
mistaken identity in literature (Shakespeare’s
plays)
- Themes: celebrity
and identity; friendship
| ISBN
9780340941447 £5.99
January 2007 288pp |
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