Stuff Happens: Fadi
Author: Scot Gardner
Author: Susannah McFarlane
Book 5 in the Stuff Happens series
Pages: 96
Published: 2015
Age: 7+
Stuff happens sometimes. Everyday stuff. At school, at home, with sport, with mates. For Fadi it happened when he got in trouble for tackling Jack at lunchtime.
Spinning out of Stuff Happens: Jack by Tony Wilson, Fadi gets a chance to tell his own story. Fadi is big and strong and hasn't quite grown into his body. He's a gun on the rugby field where his strength and size is an advantage, and at home with his Islander family his size fits, but off the field and out of home he sometimes breaks things (people's science projects, Jack's arm – but that was an accident!). With the help of his uncle and cousins, Fadi learns to put some grace to his movement – and develop some seriously cool dance moves.
About the Stuff Happens Series
Books in series order
- 1.Stuff Happens: Jack(2014)
- 2.Stuff Happens: Ned(2014)
- 3.Stuff Happens: Sean(2014)
- 4.Stuff Happens: Michael(2014)
- 5.Stuff Happens: Fadi(2015)
- 6.Stuff Happens: Ethan(2015)
- 7.Stuff Happens: Cooper(2015)
- 8.Stuff Happens: Lennie(2015)
- 9.Stuff Happens: Tom(2015)
- 10.Stuff Happens: Harry(2015)
- 11.Stuff Happens: Dale(2016)
- 12.Stuff Happens: Luke(2016)
Reading age: 7+ years
Stuff Happens is an important new series for boys about everyday challenges. Created by Susannah McFarlane, the series is written by established authors such as authors Tony Wilson, Andrew Daddo, Philip Gwynne, Will Kostakis, Oliver Phommavanh, Scot Gardner, Justin D'Ath and James Roy. Each book features a different character and follows them as they overcome a particular everyday challenge.
Aimed at boys aged between 7 and 11, the Stuff Happens series explores those everyday struggles in life that boys can sometimes be reluctant to express: quarrels with mates, a bad day at school, fear of disappointing mum and dad, rejection and not fitting in.
Stuff Happens. Real-life stories about boys. Suitable for beginner and newly confident readers.