The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair

The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair
ISBN-10
1409576329
ISBN-13
9781409576327
Category
Children's stories
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2015-10-01
Author
Lara Williamson

Description

All Becket wants is for his family to be whole again. But standing in his way are two things: 1) his dad, his brother and he seem to have run away from home in the middle of the night and 2) Becket's mum died before he got the chance to say goodbye to her. Arming himself with an armchair of stories, a snail named Brian and 1000 paper cranes, Becket ploughs on, determined to make his wish come true.

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