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Jiggy Mccue, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 9 years, Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage), School stories (Children's / Teenage)
Exciting relaunch of the bestselling series, with fantastic new covers! THE MEANEST GENIE is the third hilarious story, introducing Jiggy McCue - the boy who weird and wacky things seem to happen to...
There is a tradition in Jiggy's hometown - the night before a boy starts school he goes to the Piddle Pool near the old quarry and pees in the pool for good luck. But when Jiggy went...he couldn't go, and he's been unlucky ever since. Now Jiggy wants to change his luck. One night, while he is mid-piddle, a genie rises out of the water. Will the genie bring Jiggy good luck, or is Jiggy's life about to get even worse
Michael Lawrence
Michael Lawrence originally trained as a graphic designer and photographer, but subsequently became a television script reader, press officer, an art and antiques dealer, a painter and sculptor, and several other things he would rather not talk about. His first book, a novel for children, was published in 1995. He is now a full-time author, creator of the popular Jiggy McCue books and the Aldous Lexicon trilogy.
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