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Deadly! #1-6
Deadly!
Omnibus edition of the "Deadly!" series: all six books in one.
When Amy arrives home for her birthday tea, her parents have vanished and in their place is a baby she's never seen before. At around the same time Sprocket wakes up naked on a deserted mountainside and realises that he has lost his memory. Both kids set out on journeys to find the people they belong to, little knowing that they will soon join forces and embark, with the baby, on the deadliest quest of their lives. Morris Gleitzman writes Amy's story and Paul Jennings Sprocket's, with each of them contributing alternate chapters.
When Amy arrives home for her birthday tea, her parents have vanished and in their place is a baby she's never seen before. At around the same time Sprocket wakes up naked on a deserted mountainside and realises that he has lost his memory. Both kids set out on journeys to find the people they belong to, little knowing that they will soon join forces and embark, with the baby, on the deadliest quest of their lives. Morris Gleitzman writes Amy's story and Paul Jennings Sprocket's, with each of them contributing alternate chapters.
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First published January 1, 2000
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Morris Gleitzman
120 books975 followersMorris began his writing career as a screenwriter, and wrote his first children's novel in 1985. His brilliantly comic style has endeared him to children and adults alike, and he is now one of Australia's most successful authors, both internationally and at home. He was born in England in 1953 and emigrated to Australia in 1969 so he could escape from school and become a Very Famous Writer.
Before realising that dream, he had a colourful career as paperboy, bottle-shop shelf-stacker, department store Santa Claus, frozen chicken defroster, fashion-design assistant and sugar-mill employee. In between he managed to gain a degree in Professional Writing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. Later he became sole writer for three award-winning and top-rating seasons with the TV comedy series The Norman Gunston Show.
Morris wrote a number of feature film and telemovie screenplays, including The Other Facts of Life and Second Childhood, both produced by The Australian Children's Television Foundation. The Other Facts of Life won an AWGIE Award for the Best Original Children's Film Script.
He also wrote live stage material for people such as Rolf Harris, Pamela Stephenson and the Governor General of Australia. Morris is well known to many people through his semi-autobiographical columns in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald magazine, Good Weekend, which he wrote for nine years.
But the majority of Morris' accolades are for his hugely popular children's books. One of his most successful books for young people is Two Weeks with the Queen, an international bestseller which was also adapted into a play by Mary Morris. The play had many successful seasons in Australia and was then produced at the National Theatre in London in 1995 directed by Alan Ayckbourn, and also in South Africa, Canada, Japan and the USA.
All his other books have been shortlisted for or have won numerous children's book prizes. These include The Other Facts of Life, Second Childhood, Misery Guts, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat, Blabber Mouth, Sticky Beak, Belly Flop, Water Wings, Bumface, Gift Of The Gab, Toad Rage, Wicked! and Deadly!, two six-part novels written in collaboration with Paul Jennings, Adults Only, Toad Heaven, Boy Overboard, Teacher's Pet, Toad Away, Girl Underground, Worm Story, Once, Aristotle's Nostril, Doubting Thomas, Give Peas A Chance, Then, Toad Surprise, Grace, Now, Too Small To Fail, and his latest book, Pizza Cake. Morris' children's books have been published in the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia and Czechoslovakia, Russia and China.
Before realising that dream, he had a colourful career as paperboy, bottle-shop shelf-stacker, department store Santa Claus, frozen chicken defroster, fashion-design assistant and sugar-mill employee. In between he managed to gain a degree in Professional Writing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. Later he became sole writer for three award-winning and top-rating seasons with the TV comedy series The Norman Gunston Show.
Morris wrote a number of feature film and telemovie screenplays, including The Other Facts of Life and Second Childhood, both produced by The Australian Children's Television Foundation. The Other Facts of Life won an AWGIE Award for the Best Original Children's Film Script.
He also wrote live stage material for people such as Rolf Harris, Pamela Stephenson and the Governor General of Australia. Morris is well known to many people through his semi-autobiographical columns in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald magazine, Good Weekend, which he wrote for nine years.
But the majority of Morris' accolades are for his hugely popular children's books. One of his most successful books for young people is Two Weeks with the Queen, an international bestseller which was also adapted into a play by Mary Morris. The play had many successful seasons in Australia and was then produced at the National Theatre in London in 1995 directed by Alan Ayckbourn, and also in South Africa, Canada, Japan and the USA.
All his other books have been shortlisted for or have won numerous children's book prizes. These include The Other Facts of Life, Second Childhood, Misery Guts, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat, Blabber Mouth, Sticky Beak, Belly Flop, Water Wings, Bumface, Gift Of The Gab, Toad Rage, Wicked! and Deadly!, two six-part novels written in collaboration with Paul Jennings, Adults Only, Toad Heaven, Boy Overboard, Teacher's Pet, Toad Away, Girl Underground, Worm Story, Once, Aristotle's Nostril, Doubting Thomas, Give Peas A Chance, Then, Toad Surprise, Grace, Now, Too Small To Fail, and his latest book, Pizza Cake. Morris' children's books have been published in the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia and Czechoslovakia, Russia and China.
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February 24, 2013
How can I tell you about this story without making it sound awful? Okay, so there's this kid, he's in the forest, he's naked, forgotten his own name and... he's gotta take a dump real bad. There's this other kid, Pooper-scooper, who is intent on sifting through the first kid's poo. There's a lot of poo. And farts that squirt out something special. And there's a nudest colony with lots of jiggling, sagging, poking out bits.
Wait, there's another main character, she's normal... except her dad's probably a sex-addict and her mum has severe anger-management issues and the girl's stuck looking after her dad's love-child baby. At least until the gang of little kids kidnap them and whisk them off to the nudist colony.
Lots of action and laughs. I LOVED this story! Warning: Once you've read this novel, it will linger in your mind... every time you poo.
Wait, there's another main character, she's normal... except her dad's probably a sex-addict and her mum has severe anger-management issues and the girl's stuck looking after her dad's love-child baby. At least until the gang of little kids kidnap them and whisk them off to the nudist colony.
Lots of action and laughs. I LOVED this story! Warning: Once you've read this novel, it will linger in your mind... every time you poo.
September 8, 2017
Title: Deadly!
Series: Deadly!
Author: Morris Gleitzman & Paul Jennings
Genre: Children's
Rating: 3 stars
Morris Gleitzman was one of my absolute favourite childhood authors - I even got his autograph! His books are light and easy to read and have a comedic value only Andy Griffiths could match.
This pairing with Paul Jennings, another favourite children's author of mine, wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be, but it's still not a bad read.
Series: Deadly!
Author: Morris Gleitzman & Paul Jennings
Genre: Children's
Rating: 3 stars
Morris Gleitzman was one of my absolute favourite childhood authors - I even got his autograph! His books are light and easy to read and have a comedic value only Andy Griffiths could match.
This pairing with Paul Jennings, another favourite children's author of mine, wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be, but it's still not a bad read.
August 29, 2021
This totally holds up rereading as an adult more than a decade after my original read! My copy has my name and the year 2006 in it, which was when I was in year 4. My little sister is in year 4 this year and I gave it to her to read and she loves it too.
October 4, 2012
Deadly is a perfect book for ages 8 and up. It is funny, and a great mystery. The entire way though the book it has you on the edge of your seat. The switch between the two different characters each chapter makes you wonder what is going to happen, and you have to wait a chapter to find out! Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings are two AMAZING authors and put together they make a wonderful book.
April 14, 2013
My teacher read this to my class in grade 5 and safe to say, it was the coolest book back then. We couldn't get enough of it. Deadly! was unconventional, sort of crass and borderline wicked but that I suppose was what was so fun and intriguing about it. The best thing about this book though, was that it got kids interested in reading and I have fond memories of it.
July 11, 2020
A friend, who likes reading but hasn’t the time at the lately, asked if I had any book recommendations. After their child read what I’d suggested, I decided to kill two birds with one stone. I’ve been behind on my reading challenge and decided to chest a little by reading a few kids books that I could then recommend. Of all the ones I’ve read recently, this is the only one I didn’t enjoy. There wasn’t anything in specific wrong with it but it just didn’t interest me or make me laugh. So I’ve given this one 2*.
February 18, 2025
So as a kid I read Wicked another 6 book series by Gleiztman and Jennings, a shriveled apple man traumatizing my dreams. My son and I came upon this audio book being given away at a local library book sale.
Man I wished I’d read this one as a kid.
Amy and Sprocket are hilarious and endearing. I love the nudists with their weird blue seed.
It’s the perfect amount of action and mystery. My 8 year old was obsessed! Now to find wicked on audio book to share with him!
Man I wished I’d read this one as a kid.
Amy and Sprocket are hilarious and endearing. I love the nudists with their weird blue seed.
It’s the perfect amount of action and mystery. My 8 year old was obsessed! Now to find wicked on audio book to share with him!
January 29, 2019
It is difficult to surmise my feelings about this novel, all I can really say is that I thoroughly enjoyed this novel completely, it is amazingly written in a way that I could thoroughly picture and appreciate the world that was described.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a young adult fiction, mystery type book.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a young adult fiction, mystery type book.
July 19, 2023
read this when I was really young, it properly stuck with me and still think of it for literally no reason. it was so vivid and I barely remember the story but I can vividly see some scenes in my head still, well over a decade later.
- need to re read as an adult.
- need to re read as an adult.
August 22, 2021
A fun nostalgic read to get the reading back on track :) always a laugh and a joy to re-read these ones 😂 you sort of don’t realise how many adult jokes are slipped in
March 7, 2011
till page 50 the story talks about a girl that lives her ugliest birthday and a boy that is in the forest and followed by smart infants ythat are disgusting and the boy is without cloth so he decides to run away from themand and when he runs the plants there dammage his skin.and the girl think that her dad is dating another woman than her mom so 1 day she hids in the boot of her dad's car rto see were he goes.my opinion of this story till now is disgusting because of what the infants do with the boy in the forest.
June 11, 2013
bizarrely good
August 22, 2013
Another strange, weird little series
June 4, 2024
i read this when i was like 8 and i'm pretty sure it's the reason why i'm into bizarro horror as an adult
November 19, 2016
Not exactly my taste when I was a young reader.
May 10, 2012
it was so funny my sides nearly split
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