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Problem Child
by James Roy

In this hilarious look at playground politics, James Roy has created the ultimate odd couple, two boys who don’t see eye to eye, but have to, somehow.

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Overview

Max Quigley doesn’t think he’s a bully.

He’s an ‘observer’. He observes the habits, interests and peculiarities of other people, which he then points out. A lot.

Triffin Nordstrom isn’t really all that clever. He’s a nerd. He reads too many fat books, makes medieval seige machines out of Lego, and probably speaks fluent Elvish. Plus he lives way out in the bush with his mum, who he calls Ulrika.

Max and Triffin. It’s a match made in hell, and it’s going to get uglier than a second-hand cheesecake.

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James Roy

James Roy was born in country NSW in 1968. When he was very young, his family moved to Papua New Guinea and later to Fiji, where he spent much of his childhood adventuring by day and reading by night. After finishing high school he studied to become a registered nurse, but the urge to tell stories remained strong.

Since his first novel was published in 1996, James has written over twenty books for young people, including the CBCA Honour Books Captain Mack and Billy Mack’s War, several Notable Books in the same awards, and Anonymity Jones, which won the young adult category of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards in 2011. His short story collection Townwas awarded the Ethel Turner Prize in the NSW Premier’s Awards in 2008 and was shortlisted for several other awards, including the prestigious German Youth Literature Prize.

When he isn’t speaking at schools and festivals across Australia and beyond, James lives with his family in a creaky 100-year-old house in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. In his increasingly limited spare time he enjoys music, art and photography.