Cool Simon

Jean Ure
Published by Corgi
0-552-52707-6, £2.99

Changing schools is traumatic for anyone, but when you have partial hearing things can get tricky. Aware that he has to cope, Simon works hard at being 'one of the boys'. The class nuisance becomes a welcome friend and together they set out to get Sam into the football team and defeat the school gang. Only when things go dangerously wrong does Sam realise that Cool Simon's name was well earned. Overlooking an uncomfortable change of tense, I found this to be a wonderfully witty book that's an entertaining read in its own right and a welcome addition in any classroom collection.

Reviewed in BfK No. 77 (November 1992) by Pam Harwood (PH)
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