Product Description
Vinny needs support from his agony-aunt mum, but she’s too busy helping other people to notice in this empathetic tale about family and mental health by bestseller Helen Rutter.
Vinny’s got problems—lots of them. His family's falling apart, and his best mates have dumped him for some really annoying girls.
He should be able to turn to his mum for help—she’s an online life coach who answers other people’s problems for a living. But she’s too busy to see that Vinny is really struggling.
Unable to solve his own issues, Vinny starts replying to unanswered posts on an old blog of his mum’s. At first the solutions seem easy, and he can be as hilariously honest as any 12-year-old boy would be, but what will happen when Vinny realises he’s out of his depth?
Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
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family, advice, empathy, mental health
Vinny is struggling. Dad is coming home late from work and Mum is completely focused on her blog, where she gives advice to strangers. He just wants to play D&D with his friends, but they all want to hang out with the girls. They don’t think D&D is cool, and they only play at home after another boy filmed and made fun of their game. Vinny decides to reply to some of his Mum’s old blog comments that haven’t been responded to, and advice from a 12-year-old nobody is born. But as he starts to answer, people take what he is saying seriously and Vinny realises he might be in deeper than he thinks. A lightly illustrated reluctant reader suitable for upper primary school, which explores empathy and mental health.
