Fish Boy

Chloe Daykin, Richard Jones

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9780571326778
• Edition: 0

Billy is a lonely boy. He's obsessed with swimming in the sea, which is where he goes to wash his problems far, far away. Thanks to his mum's mystery illness, his dad has been forced to work extra hours to make ends meet, so Billy locks himself away with David Attenborough films, and ponders the magic of nature. Meanwhile at school, bullies mercilessly seize on Billy's 'otherness' and make his life as miserable as possible - but then new boy Patrick Green, with "fingers like steel, strength of a bear", joins Billy's class. And when a mackerel swims up to Billy's face, blows bubbles into his Vista Clear Mask goggles and says: Fish Boy - Billy's whole world changes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• In the Zone
• Run
• Hover
• Fingers of Steel, Strength of a Bear
• Brains Look After Themselves
• Bigger and Blacker
• Bang and Blast
• Beantastic
• Dive
• What?
• Run
• Underwater Brain
• Giant Kelp
• Free
• Idiot
• Seventy Per Cent of the Earth
• Coming or What?
• Eating Dirt
• The Sea of Questions
• Unexplained Mysteries of the Universe
• Kesz
• Cool
• Mush
• Hang On
• Milwaukee’s 440th Airlift Wing, Plane 680, 1965
• Now?
• Believe
• Going Solo
• Solid
• Ready
• Yes
• Hard-its
• The Most Undiscovered Place in the World
• Human Rocket
• Bob
• A Bit Weird
• Us
• No
• Bed Slug
• Part Gaudi, Part Kurt
• Making Merz
• Why?
• When
• DC-3 Flight NC-16002, 1948
• Surprise
• The King of Hearts
• Portal
• Can’t or Won’t
• The FDT
• Gone
• Too Strong
• Banned
• Real Friends Talk
• Electronic Fog
• The Eye of the Storm
• Don’t Worry
• Disappear
• Losing it
• Now or Never
• Go
• Just an Illusion
• Odd, but Okay
• Compass Malfunction
• Just the Beginning
• The Future
• About ME …
• Fish Speak
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Copyright