Reggie Houser Has the Power
By (Author) Helen Rutter
Scholastic
Scholastic
1st February 2024
1st February 2024
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction and true stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: School stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Comedy and stand-up
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes
Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Disability, impairments and spec
Teaching of students with physical impairments or disabilities
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 194mm, Height 128mm, Spine 30mm
200g
The new highly-entertaining story from the queen of making readers laugh-out-loud on one page and cry the next! Reggie Houser has ADHD and struggles to make friends at school, plus his mum and teachers seem constantly weary about his erratic, high-energy ways. But when he sees a hypnotist perform on stage at the holiday park he visits, Reggie becomes obsessed with learning the skills behind mind controland he discovers he has an incredible talent for it! First of all, he hypnotises the dog to think he's a frog, then makes his headmaster cluck like a chicken in assembly in front of the whole schoolbut then a group of mean kids supposedly take him under their wing and make him use his hypnosis talents for bad: stealing a chocolate bar from a shop and escalating to a bigger theft. Reggie must decide to use his skills for good only and come to trust his own brain to make decisions.