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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 A Morris Gleitzman Collection
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'Keith Shipley is a regular kid with Misery Guts for parents. Sick of gloomy life in London, he hatches a plan to move his even gloomier parents to sunny Australia.

'But when they arrive in Australia, his parents become Worry Warts. Fed up with their fretting and fussing, Keith comes up with a scheme to make them rich. Very, very rich.

'After all Keith's hard work, his parents split up and start putting on Puppy Fat. Exasperated with their laziness, he devises a strategy to whip them into shape - and find them new partners!

'It's a brilliant plan ... if he can pull it off!' (Publication summary)

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* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Pan Macmillan Australia , 2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Misery Guts, Morris Gleitzman , single work children's fiction humour children's

''I'm only going to say this once more,' said Dad, 'so listen very carefully. We are not ever, under any circumstance, going to Australia.'What does a kid do when his Mum and Dad are misery guts?Move them to a tropical Paradise, decides Keith. That'll cheer them up.It's a brilliant plan-if he can pull it off.' (Publication summary)
Worry Warts, Morris Gleitzman , single work children's fiction children's
Puppy Fat, Morris Gleitzman , single work novel young adult humour
'Keith worries about his separated parents and wants to improve their appearance so they will find new partners, but he realizes that he cannot change them into different people' (Source: Libraries Australia).
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