Joe All Alone Av Joanna Nadin

<p><b>Now a major CBBC TV series. </b><b><i>Joe All Alone</i> won the Children's BAFTA award for Best Drama. It was also nominated for an Emmy and two other Children's BAFTA awards: Director and Young Performer.</b><Br><b><Br><i>Home Alone</i> meets Jacqueline Wilson - a heartwarming, humorous, issue novel for 10+ readers about a young boy left home alone.<Br></b><Br>When thirteen-year-old Joe is left behind in Peckham while his mum flies to Spain on holiday, he decides to treat it as an adventure, and a welcome break from Dean, her latest boyfriend. Joe begins to explore his neighbourhood, making a tentative friendship with Asha, a fellow fugitive hiding out at her grandfather's flat. </p><p>But when the food and money run out, his mum doesn't come home, and the local thugs catch up with him, Joe realises time is running out too, and makes a decision that will change his life forever.</p><p><i>Deeply poignant, deceptively simple, this book will cut the reader to the bone almost without their realising it</i>. Imogen Russell-Williams, Teens On Moon Lane</p>