Cold Turkey

Former bestmates Kit and Hamza must deliver a cooked turkey across town, but can they tolerate one another for that long? A hilarious caper from bestseller Simon James Green.

Can a TURKEY bring best friends Hamza and Kit back together?Kit is furious following a betrayal by his oldest friend, Hamza -over a girl?! He wants nothing to do with him until the boys are offered a lot of money to do a job for one of their neighbours.The job is to deliver a turkey to an address across London before it gets cold. Weird but pretty simple, right? But that's before it turns into a hilarious, hysterical race against time, the police, the bomb squad and a scary street gang.Can Kit and Hamza make it in time, and will they ever speak to each other again if they do?Particularly suitable for readers aged 11+ with a reading age of 7.

About the author

Simon James Green is an award-winning author and screenwriter who has written over twelve books for children and young people, including Life of Riley: Beginner's Luck, which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award, Noah Can't Even, which was selected by WHSmith as one of the most important LGBT books of the last 50 years, and Gay Club!, which was nominated for the YOTO Carnegie Medal. He lives in London.