How to Survive Without Grown-Ups

Larry Hayes, Katie Abey

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's UK
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781471198342
• eBook ISBN: 9781471198359

Get set for the new hilarious out-of-this-world adventure series for readers aged 8+ – this is the perfect new series for fans of Tom Gates, David Solomons and Star Wars! Highly illustrated throughout by the brilliantly funny Katie Abey.

Mum and Dad have left – gone to Mars, and they’re never coming back . . .
 
FREEDOM AT LAST!
 
But this isn’t one of Dad’s weird jokes; it’s REAL. It’s up to ten-year-old Eliza and her genius little brother, Johnnie, to find out what’s going on, and launch a rescue . . .
 
Can they handle vampire squids, a suspicious villain, a secret island full of traps and a trip into space? And – more importantly – will they ever get their parents back?
 
The funniest, zaniest, most out-of-this-world adventure you’ll read all year! Look out for Eliza and Johnnie's second adventure,  How to Survive Time Travel. Out now!

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• 1. The Year 2053: Five Days After Our World Ended
• 2. How Not to Worry: (The Hard Way)
• 3. Day Zero: The Day My World Ended
• 4. How To Survive Without Parents
• 5. The News Was Bad
• 6. How to Sail a Pretend Pirate Ship
• 7. How to Survive a Narwhal Attack
• 8. How to Make It Up to Someone for Letting them Down/Drown
• 9. How to Save a Narwhal from Vampire Squid
• 10. How to Overcome Odds of Fifty Trillion to One
• 11. How to Talk Dolphin
• 12. How to Conquer Clashing Rocks
• 13. How to Survive the End of the World
• 14. How to Get Over It Being All Over
• 15. How to Escape from an Ice-Cream Paradise Trap
• 16. How to Survive in a Rainforest
• 17. How to Talk Your Way Out of Trouble
• 18. How to Trust Someone You Don’t Trust
• 19. How to Get Your Parents to do What You Want
• 20. How to Wait
• 21. How to Stop a Centipede Biobot Burrowing into Your Baby Brother’s Head
• 22. How to ask for Help
• 23. How to Eat Pancakes with Exploded Eyeball Goo
• 24. How to Survive a Chokey Full of Centibots
• 25. How to Fly
• 26. The News was Hopeful and Amazing
• 27. How to Escape from a Centibot Beach Ball
• 28. How to Ride a Giraffe
• 29. How to Trust Someone
• 30. How to Escape from an Alpha Vampire Squid and a Maniac Billionaire Armageddonist: (At the Same Time)
• 31. How to Steal a Rocket
• 32. How to Steer a Rocket
• 33. The News wasss Very Bad
• 34. How to Win a Space Race
• 35. How to Escape from a Maniac Billionaire Armageddonist: When He’s Holding the Alpha Vampire Squid
• 36. How to Escape from a Maniac Billionaire Armageddonist and His Biobot Zoo of Zombie Doom
• 37. How Not to Cry Over Spilled Milk
• 38. How to Survive a Bomb in Space
• 39. How to Make Your Parents Want You Again
• 40. Six Weeks Later
• Editor’s Note
• Appendix 1
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright