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Author: Coelho, Joseph, Barrow, David

General fiction (Children’s/YA)

Published on 6 April 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers (Barrington Stoke Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Little Gems’ series.

Paperback | 96 pages
126 x 169 x 10 | 136g

A missing budgie inspires an unlikely friendship between a young boy and his elderly neighbour in this touching Little Gem from award-winner and Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho.

Mr Buxton is always having a go at Miles and his friends for climbing the trees outside their tower block. Miles thinks he’s just a grumpy old man but when he finds a lost little budgie, Miles also discovers that he and Mr Buxton have more in common than he could ever have imagined.