Books by Chris d'Lacey
Style: Average
Attitude: Positive
Darryl finds an injured pigeon and looks after it, helped by the advice of a local pigeon fancier.
Animal, Friendship, Growing-Up
Style: Good
Attitude: Positive
Darryl must do the best he can for his racing pigeons while keeping at bay his mother, pregnant with twins, his father, who doesn't want the pigeons, Warren, the school bully, and Susan Duckins and Suzie McAllister, who both have designs on him for entirely different reasons.
Animal, Friendship, Growing-Up, School
Style: Good
Attitude: Unobjectionable
David, a student, takes lodgings in the Pennykettle household, looked after by Liz, mother of 10-year-old Lucy.
Lightweight and quirky style. Slightly odd family situation. Easy acceptance of an outsider.
Animal, Humorous, Magic