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Millions
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Millions
AUTHOR:
Cottrell Boyce, Frank.
ISBN:
9781447246381
EDITION:
10th anniversary edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Macmillan Children's, 2014.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
263 p. ; 20 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Originally published: 2004.
ABSTRACT:
Two brothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma, how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking, the bungling bank-robbers are closing in too. Pizzas or World Peace, what would you choose?
SUBJECT:
Money -- Juvenile fiction.
Saints -- Juvenile fiction.
Brothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
England -- Juvenile fiction.
BIBSUMMARY:
Two brothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to joining the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma, how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking, the bungling bank-robbers are closing in too. Pizzas or World Peace, what would you choose?