Rhyming Boy
by Steven Herrick

From the award-winning poet and author, Steven Herrick, comes a novel about a young boy’s search for family, friendship and well ... footballers.

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Overview

Jayden Hayden, wordsmith, a.k.a rhyming boy doesn’t have a dad – just a mum obsessed with Jayden Finch, the footballer, and an embarrassing name that gets him teased. When a school father-son day is announced, Jayden’s quest for answers becomes a puzzle he needs to solve, and quickly. Could Jayden Finch be more than just a footballer? With the help of his an-answer-to-every-question friend Saskia, he aims to track down his namesake and his father all in one go.

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The Sunday Age

‘Moving and playful ...’

The Courier-Mail

‘... this tale is laugh-out-loud funny and always a snicker is never far off.’

The CBCA’s Reading Time

‘This is a fun read, full of gentle, teasing humour.’

Steven Herrick

Steven Herrick is the author of twenty-five books for children and young adults. His books have twice won the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and have been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards on nine occasions. In 2019, his bestselling young adult novel, The Bogan Mondrian, was shortlisted for CBCA's Book of the Year: Older Readers Award and the Queensland Literary Awards - Griffith University Young Adult Book Award. His latest novel, How to Repaint a Life was shortlisted for the 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards: Older Readers. He is widely recognised as a pioneer of the verse-novel genre for young adults. He is also the author of six travel books. He spends nine months of the year visiting schools in Australia and three months on his bicycle, travelling around, pedalling slowly and thinking about his next book.