Millions

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While you are hearing your father’s words to be ‘excellent’, following the guidance of the saints, your brother is more of a real-estate baron, it seems…. I liked the ending because I thought it was very eye opening and that the theme was a very important lesson to learn.

We follow Damian and Anthony (brothers) through everything they do with the money before the day when the pound gets changed for the Euro. I never thought a seven yr old boy would ever be obsessed with saints but then again anything is possible.The boys’ are scared she is going to replace their mom when Dorothy makes lasagna from scratch just like their mom used to and they don’t want a new mom. Damian seems adventurous because he explores around the town to find the saints he is looking for and the crooks who stole the money. Conflicts arise throughout their family as the burden becomes to much to bear and secrets are becoming harder to keep.

I would recommend this story to anyone above the age of ten, for there is some difficult language that would be hard for children to understand. This edition of Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s Carnegie Medal-winning Millions features fantastic cover artwork from the brilliant Steven Lenton. However, the humour is pretty British, so if you don't get British humour you will just find it weird. Millions addressed some interesting topics, the main one being what would you really do with that much money?The conflict in the book is for Damian and Anthony to find a way to get rid of the money in seventeen days because it is in the old form of money and the money system is changing to a new one( Euros). It's a story about 2 brothers who are each dealing with the loss of their mother in different ways, and a father who reminds them to be excellent.