Zak Monroe is (not) My Friend

Sam has been best friends with Cal, Fin and Jay for EVER. They're all about to move up to a new school together - scary but exciting. But then he overhears them saying they're not going to put him on their Friends Lists! So Sam will be stuck in a different tutor group with a lot of kids he doesn't know. Help! How can Sam convince them to change their minds? Can he keep on hiding his new friendship with 'weird' new boy Zak Monroe? And what will happen when these two sides of Sam's life collide? AGES: 9 to 12 AUTHOR: Simon Packham has written several highly acclaimed books for young people, including Silenced, which was shortlisted for multiple awards, comin 2 gt u, a novel about cyberbullying and World War Two which is read widely in German schools, and Firewallers, chosen as one of The Independent's children's books of the year. He is also the composer and lyricist of eleven musicals for primary schools. He lives in West Sussex with his wife Deborah and an ageing cat called Pax. His latest middle-grade novel, Worrybot was published by UCLan Publishing in 2023.