Since his dad ran off with the lady from the chip shop, Dan Hope's life has gone a bit strange, what with his sister acting mean and Mum's new boyfriend keeping secrets. And now – even stranger – his dad has turned up as a presenter on TV. So Dan decides to sort out his messy, muddled, madcap family, starting with getting his dad back. But as one genius plan after another goes pear-shaped, Dan fears that his wish will never come true... until he starts to realize that your real family aren't always the people you share your name with. A brave, bold and funny debut about family in all its shapes and sizes.

All Becket wants is for his family to be whole again. But standing in his way are two things: 1) his dad, his brother and him seem to have run away from home in the middle of the night and 2) Becket's mum died before he got the chance to say goodbye to her. Arming himself with an armchair of stories, a snail named Brian and one thousand paper cranes, Becket ploughs on, determined to make his wish come true.

It's no secret that eleven-year-old Adam Butters is adopted. But when he thinks his parents don't want him any more, he decides to find his real mum. If he can just show her how amazing he is – how he can be a superhero! – surely she'll want him back. It takes a painful discovery for Adam to realise that you don't need to be super to be a hero.