Author: John Marsden
Narrator: Tim Ferguson
Published: 1998, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
Price: $AUD21.89
ISBN: 0-73-290894-9
SUMMARY
Tony and his friends are seriously bored with their lives.
They go `Looking for Trouble'.
They find trouble all right - and trouble finds them!
EXTRACT
Sixteen hours before I start school again and things have not kicked off well. I opened my bag to pack it for tomorrow and the first thing I found was my lunch from December 17 last year. There was an orange, a piece of cheese and something that might have been a salami and tomato sandwich. I didn't eat it then because we had our Christmas party at school, and I'm not going to eat it now. the second thing I found was half a Mars Bar. I don't know where it had come from, or where it had been, but I checked the use-by date and it still had two months to go. So I wiped off the dust and fluff and recycled it. It didn't taste too bad.
Another thing in the bag was a letter to Mum from the Principal about a school council meeting. Maybe I should recycle that too, into the garbage bin. Hide the evidence.
We've just been shopping for school stuff, leaving it a bit late, but we didn't have much money till last Friday when Dad finally got paid for a job he did way back in November. So it came just in time. I had to get new shoes and some pens, and Dad shouted me a box of Derwents. Jodie had to get a new lunch box and a pencil case and some pens too, and Dad shouted her a calculator. We must have spent about a hundred bucks. It's lucky parents have kids, I reckon, 'cos they wouldn't know what to spend their money on otherwise. I said that to Dad and he chased me through the house with a chain saw. Well, maybe not a chain saw. It was actually his electric toothbrush.
