Millions

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I probably wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone because I think that it’s just very boring and that there’s no real climax in the entire story. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. An edge of my seat read that would be enjoyed by upper elementary and middle school kids, if ever I could get it past the censors. Damian stood out as a character in the book because he had such an outgoing and big personality that couldn’t be contained.

Damian and Anthony are brothers who unwittingly find themselves in possession of a large amount of money after being caught up in a train robbery. However, the humour is pretty British, so if you don't get British humour you will just find it weird.Damian is convinced it is a gift from God, and contemplates with his older brother Anthony the best way to spend it. The boys’ are scared she is going to replace their mom when Dorothy makes lasagna from scratch just like their mom used to and they don’t want a new mom. It was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2008 and the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize. The pair have big decisions to make, needing to reconcile their wildly different ideas about what to do with the cash. Beside winning the Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, [2] [3] Millions made the shortlists for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Branford Boase Award.

I think this story worked because the book showed both before and after the characters gained all the money and it made me see that the characters were more likable in the beginning of the novel.

The book is about a young boy named Damian who is obsessed with catholic saints and his older brother Anthony and the problems they get into after Damian finds a bag of pounds, north of two-hundred and thirty thousand pounds to be exact. Being American, I wouldn't have been able to imagine the sound of the annoyed protagonist telling his older brother that his cardboard hideout isn't a den, but "an hermitage.

This is a wonderful read for all ages, and thought not super Christmassy, I am still adding it to my December repertoire. As contrast to all of that filthy lucre, Damian is obsessed with the ideas of goodness and excellence. Steven Lenton hails from Cheshire where he spent many a school holiday working in the family Pom-pom Factory, packing poms and designing new products.Boyce expresses how giving money accumulates to good deeds, which signify rungs on the ladder to heaven, just like the saints on their way to canonization. It seems that they’re at loggerheads over this too, with Damian convinced that the saints need thanking for their intervention in his life. Ever since Damian’s mom died he always believes in saints because he thinks it will get him closer to his mom.

But with only 17 days left before the national currency switches to Euros and the money becomes worthless, this proves to be much more difficult than they had anticipated. When a young boy finds a bag of money at the time in which the currency is changing to Euros, so it only has value for 17 more days, he and his brother have to spend quickly.At the end, Anthony says, “And so they failed to make proper use of their once in a life time investment opportunity and they all regretted it ever after.