Misery guts - Morris Gleitzman

Keith's heart was pounding. Calm down, he thought. You're not robbing a bank. You're not kidnapping anybody. You're just painting a fish and chip shop orange.

Keith is trying to cheer up his parents. But a pair of misery guts need more than a pot of Tropical Mango Hi-Gloss to make them happy. What they really need, Keith decides, is to live in Paradise.

Trouble is, Paradise is halfway round the world. Even Keith Shipley is stumped by that one. Almost.

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Morris Gleitzman was born in England, but has lived in Australia since 1969. He has worked as a frozen-chicken thawer, fashion-industry trainee, department-store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist and freelance screenwriter. He wrote his first novel for young people in 1985.