Just Ferret - Gene Kemp

Ferret doesn't think that Cricklepit Combined School will be any different from the other schools he's been to - but he's wrong.

Since her mother's death when he was six, Ferret has led a nomadic existence with his artist father - constantly changing schools and struggling to cover up his inability to read. So, when he fronts up at Cricklepit Combined School, Ferret has no reason to think that things will be different. But, with the help of his new friends Minty and Beany, Ferret manages to free the school from the grip of Magnus and his gang of bullies - and overcomes his reading block too!