Millions

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Heart-achingly funny, touching and brilliantly clever, Millions is a fantastic adventure about two boys, one miracle and a million choices. Because the story is told from the sweetly naive perspective of Damian, it is filled with many silly but poignant observations. The younger brother (and narrator) Damian tries his best to be excellent and to do good work every day. One of the focuses of that obsession has become an interest in saints -- the lives of which populate both his imagination AND several of the key scenes in this book. Sometimes the boy sounds like something of a savant, but all the same the book is extremely funny and a heart warming tale, well told.

Damian is obsessed with saints and builds himself a little hermitage to live in down by the railroad tracks. The pair have big decisions to make, needing to reconcile their wildly different ideas about what to do with the cash. Dễ thương quá chừng luôn, khép lại năm 2017 bằng một cuốn sách viết về vấn đề làm mình đau đầu nhất năm 2017 là tiền bạc nhưng mà cách tiếp cận cuốn sách đáng yêu, nhân vật dễ thương, cốt truyện cũng hài hước nữa, kiểu như tiền bạc là gánh nặng thật sự (theo đúng nghĩa đen nhé).

I really enjoyed this book 😀 because it was very funny however the book goes on and on about saints because one of the brothers are religious and it takes up about half of the book.

This edition of Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s Carnegie Medal-winning Millions features fantastic cover artwork from the brilliant Steven Lenton. This edition of Frank Cottrell-Boyce's Carnegie Medal-winning Millions features fantastic cover artwork from the brilliant Steven Lenton. Funny, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining, this outstanding novel was a deserving winner of the 2004 CILIP Carnegie Medal. I thought the story was ok because it was touching but not to the point of other stories that are out there. They think of two different suspects but eventually they find their money and end up with 20,345 Euros.There is selflessness and selfishness throughout the story and what is right and wrong becomes tested. Although I do think it would appeal to the more intelligent readers in the 10-13 age group, a lot of the humour and commentary is probably aimed more at an adult level of understanding. One of the things I didn't really like was that it took about half the book to get the action started and there were lots of side stories of saints which slowed the pace of the book and distracted me from the storyline.