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The Boy in the Dress

by David Walliams

Ages 8–11 Reading age 9 Novel Set in school funnywarm

Dennis is good at football and misses his mother. A magazine in a corner shop leads to a friendship, a dress, and a very public school assembly.

A story about children and families, funny and warm in tone. We would put it with children of 8–11, and at a reading age of about 9 for reading alone.

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