Max and the Millions

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Max is used to spending time alone – it’s difficult to make friends in a big, chaotic school when you’re deaf. This wonderful novel is a great read for 7-9-year olds; also, a great read for developing readers who are able to understand depth behind the principle of the story and what exactly is going on.

There is also the developing friendship between Max and Sasha, as well as Max's attempts to get him to understand the difficulties he has communicating with others.When Mr Darrow disappears and has still not reappeared at the end of the summer holidays, Max begins to worry. On the other hand, this book has wonderful exciting, funny and emotive language which would really lend itself to great iotation when reading aloud- perhaps pupils in the class could take turns to read pages. He has now written over twenty books for children, including THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIANS, which was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2021 and selected as one of The Guardian’s Children’s Books of the Year.

Max is left with no clue of where his only friend went - for all that was left behind was a pile of sand with some miniature palm trees. I was interested where the story was going to go after the first chapter but within a few more chapters, where an ‘other voice’ (trying to avoid spoilers) starts telling their side of the story, I was completely captivated.Take The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, and Gregor the Overlander by Suzann Collins, mix them together, and add a surprising twist. What kid hasn’t pretended there are microscopic people living microscopic lives right under our noses?

He’s also clearly neglected to ensure Max’s peers understand how to foster normal, meaningful relationships with someone who happens to be deaf. Ross Montgomery started writing stories as a teenager, when he really should have been doing homework, and continued doing so at university. I especially loved how receptive Sasha was to some of these things and the little nods to how the two boys adapted their communication to ensure both understood each other.

The melodrama of this statement is, of course, childlike, but again, it becomes a non-issue in that Mr.

After graduating, he experimented with working as a pig farmer and a postman before deciding to channel these skills into teaching at a primary school.Max, a hard of hearing boy attends a boarding school where he feels none of the pupils or staff understand him. Max is used to spending time alone - it's difficult to make friends in a big, chaotic school when you're deaf.