Jake likes thinking, talking, football and encyclopedias. And fish. But he's not so sure about everything else - especially girls, or little sisters, or stepdads. And most of all, he's not sure if he really likes himself.
Then Jake meets a girl called Stella and old Mrs Kennedy next door, and he begins to find that he likes a lot more things than he thought. After all, as Mrs Kennedy says: Life isn't a bowl of cherries, but a bowl of cherries is still a bowl of cherries. 
But it takes a tragedy to force Jake to look at himself and see that, really, he isn't so bad after all.
                        
                    
                    
                    
                        
                            Publication Date
                        
                        
                        05 January 2006
                    
                    
                        
                            Publisher
                        
                        
                        Penguin Random House Children's UK
                    
                    
                        
                            Book Type
                        
                        
                        Digital (delivered electronically)
                    
                     
                        
                            ISBN
                        
                        
                        9780141927640