What's it like to be stuck in a room all day alone? Hugo is about to find out! If he wants a gerbil Hugo must prove to Dad that life in a cage isn't so bad. But can he stand it, or will he crack?
See how he decides in this funny story for young readers by the second Children's Laureate.
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Countdown, a book for younger readers, was first published in 1996. It has been reissued, most recently in the Crabtree Publishing Company's Yellow Bananas series, in April 2006, as both hardback (ISBN: 0778709582) and paperback (ISBN: 0778710041).
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