Superglued by Neville Barnard
I didn’t like this book when I started. It seemed just too simplistic even silly. But I persevered and by the end it wasn’t too bad.
Robert Stoner is a young boy who is having difficulty handling his parent’s divorce. Robert is sent to boarding school because his parent’s can’t agree about who should have him when. Life has settled into a routine of alternate weekends with each parent, and weekdays at school scheming up ways to get rid of Mum’s new boyfriend and get the parents back together. One scheme is the idea that if Robert can repair the bride and groom figurine from the wedding cake, the magic will return to their relationship. And that is Robert’s excuse for his unending supply of superglue.
When superglue was first released on the marketplace there were all kinds of urban myths about skin getting stuck together, zips and locks stuck, and hundreds of other comic situations. They are all in this book. Robert and his superglue are a nightmare!
Barnard loves puns. I love the name for the principal of Robert’s school, Ms Take. And the questioning of Jon Ho, Robert’s best friend, adds to the gentle humour of the novel.
I think this will be a popular book for upper primary, and some lower secondary students.
