Boy meets ghoul - Birdie Milano

It's October half-term, and Dylan Kershaw's dreams of a reunion with Leo, the gorgeous boy he met over the summer, are dashed when his sports-mad dad whisks him off to football camp in Manchester instead. What's worse, dancer Leo seems to be too busy practicing his pirouettes to care. At least Dylan's best friend Kayla is along for the trip, on a quest to win exclusive tickets to see her favourite band, the Deathsplash Nightmares.

It all looks set to be a tedious trip, until Dylan's long-time crush Freddie Alton shows up at football camp and Kayla discovers that the Nightmares are staying in the very same hotel as they are . . .

Birdie Milano's laugh-out-loud Boy Meets Ghoul is the sequel to Boy Meets Hamster.

Birdie Milano earned a first-class honours degree in Creative Writing from St Mary's University, London, before going on to complete her MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, where she won the 2015 United Agents Prize for Most Promising Writing for Young People. Her books include the funny and romantic Boy Meets Hamster. Birdie lives in Guildford, Surrey.

Sweet, funny, moving and joyous
Simon James Green, author of Noah Can't Even on Boy Meets Hamster

A fresh, modern, LGBTQ+ YA novel about a tale as old as time - that first gay crush
Justin Myers aka TheGuyliner, author of The Last Romeo on Boy Meets Hamster