Tom Jones Saves the World

Steven Herrick

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702252204
• Year: 2014

"I hate that wall Everytime I go for a bike-ride Mum says, "Stay within the walls". So I ride around in circles, Like a circus animal. It's a prison. A prison for kids." Dumb things become important when you're old. At least that's what Tom reckons like living in a guarded gate community, filling the three spare rooms with a bottle top collection or secretly belly dancing while everyone's out. When Tom meets Cleo the snake charmer, together they break-out, discover a bull that hasn't become a hamburger, visit Tom's forbidden grandfather and catch and boil yabbies by Murchison Creek. Another funny, quirky adventure about friendship, families and saving the world, from popular award-winning storyteller Steven Herrick.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Table of Contents
• Chapter One: Tom Jones and the Bottle Top Collection
• Chapter Two: Grandpa Jones and the Funeral
• Chapter Three: Cleo and the Escape Plan
• Chapter Four: The First Day of Freedom
• Chapter Five: The Gardens of Mercy
• Chapter Six: Gobbledegook, And the History of Tom’s Family
• Chapter Seven: Cleo, the Genius
• Chapter Eight: Barbara, To the Rescue!
• Chapter Nine: Tom Falls In Love ... with a Dictionary!
• Chapter Ten: Quivering Lips, Trembling Hands, Beating Hearts and Other Stuff
• Chapter Eleven: Cleo’s Last and Absolutely Final Plan
• Chapter Twelve: The Time of His Life
• Copyright