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Radio Boy and the Revenge of Grandad
Christian O’Connell
Debut sensation Christian O’Connell is back with more hilarious adventures of Spike, super-star radio DJ… and trouble-prone ordinary kid.The World’s youngest DJ is still the talk of the town. A town that’s about to turn against him.Radio Boy and his team, Artie and Holly, are back and continue to broadcast live to the world from Spike’s garden shed.Then, following a shock split from Nan, Grandad Ray comes to stay. Spike decides to cheer him up by inviting him onto the show. He becomes an instant hit with the listeners and Spike keeps him on as a new team member.But things get really awkward when Spike realises Grandad Ray only has three stories and keeps telling them over and over again. Spike is forced to sack his own Grandad, who swears vengeance on his own grandson. Grandad Ray is the world's most competitive man and he always plays to win – at any cost…
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Illustrations © Rob Biddulph 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008200596
Ebook Edition © 2018 ISBN: 9780008200602
Version: 2017-12-07
For Sarah, Ruby and Lois.
The three brightest stars in my world.
Love you, always.
Contents
Cover (#u7a9c38e7-b384-50e7-8136-88bd133d6d23)
Title Page (#u5b6edf55-6e73-59c9-b289-e3a7fd844c5a)
Copyright (#u87cac76c-2de6-5dcb-87e9-52e2ca60bbe9)
Dedication (#u01b0b67f-ebc8-52a9-8a59-9f44a4e41fd0)
Chapter 1. The DJ Who Stole Christmas (#u1e65064a-49ea-5ee3-ba0e-9ad5824a5da8)
Chapter 2. Barbecued Like a Sausage (#ud9be1a7c-32f5-5c10-b8f4-f95a347d39ac)
Chapter 3. My Headmaster Hates Me (#u72dc14bd-88bd-59f5-9939-86769a44b6e6)
Chapter 4. The Surprise House Guest (#uffa61999-e9b7-58bc-b5e8-6aeeb50a3b08)
Chapter 5. A New Team Member (#u7aa56a63-e972-5755-a450-15679ecd9d35)
Chapter 6. Radio Stars Wanted (#u6308e6f1-9149-5b91-8785-7bca9e6d2d9e)
Chapter 7. The Guest from Hell (#ua5cc6376-8976-5d36-8f62-e95ce4adceb1)
Chapter 8. In for the Kill (#ue73e8b88-0f21-55c7-a83e-31de5eabe8f8)
Chapter 9. The Snake (#u842e45a1-e258-584e-bdd6-32817a9236ed)
Chapter 10. The Letter (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11. The Ray-chter Scale (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12. When Grandads Go Bad (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13. A Spurned Grandad (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14. Please, Dad, No (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15. Breaking Dad (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16. The Rumble at the Red Lion (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17. Please, Dad, No (part 2) (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18. Grandad Ray Rattles Cages (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19. Everyone’s a DJ (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20. Catastrophe (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21. Cliffhanger (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22. Cat-Napped (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23. Face to face With a Cat-Napper (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24. Spooking the Enemy (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25. Returning to the Scene of the Crime (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26. The FrankenHarrissteins (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27. Pretty Uneventful (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28. Blackmail (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29. Lasagne (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30. The Cha-Cha Chat Show (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31. Bring on the Red Carpets (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32. Embarrassing Parents (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33. Duelling Dancers (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34. Never Meet Your Heroes (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35. A Bad Thought (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36. Ninja Dad (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37. Dad’s on the TV (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38. A Reluctant Star is Born (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39. The Final Countdown (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40. The Final Four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41. Training Camp (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42. Attack of the Dads (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43. Zombie Mum (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44. You Said What? (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45. Friends Remited (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46. The ‘Amazing’ Tent (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47. My Interview (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48. And Then There Was One (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49. The Aftermath (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50. And the Winner Is … (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51. Decisions, Decisions (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52. Choices (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 53. And the Winner Is … (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 54. The Final Chapter (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 55. One Last Thing (#litres_trial_promo)
Note from Me, the Writer of this, Spike Hughes (#litres_trial_promo)
Footnotes (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Keep Reading … (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Can you imagine what it would be like to have your very own radio show?
Just think about it for a moment.
You could do whatever you wanted, say what you wanted, and get your listeners to do ANYTHING.
Well, that’s me. Spike Hughes. Living the dream. Surfing the radio airwaves from my garden shed at Number 27 Crow Crescent.
And the Secret Shed Show is live on air right now …
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‘Spike, you cannot do this!’ begged my radio-show producer, Holly.
‘Oh yes, I can,’ I replied.
The song came to an end. Time to speak. I suddenly remembered watching this old documentary with my dad about a motorcycle daredevil called Evel Knievel. He would jump over things on his motorbike. Cars, buses and planes. He even once tried to jump across thirteen London buses at Wembley Stadium. I felt like him, about to try to make that jump.
The MIC LIVE sign turned bright red, meaning we were on air. I spoke into the mic.
‘So, who of you listening right now is brave enough to go and get one of your Christmas presents from under the tree, without anyone catching you, and open it up live on the show? Just grab one and call us right away!’
‘This is a really bad idea,’ said Artie, but I could see he was trying to swallow down his laughter as producer Holly scowled at us both.
A few months ago, after the whole school strike situation,
