Hugo desperately wants a gerbil but Dad thinks it's cruel to keep animals in cages. They strike a deal: if Hugo can spend seven hours alone in his empty, newly-painted bedroom, then Dad will buy him the gerbil he wants. Can he stand it, or will he crack? For ages 7-10: Yellow Bananas are chapter books for newly fluent readers.

 

This is volume 13 in Yellow Bananas .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels.

There are 44 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Egmont UK Ltd .

Anne Fine is a bestselling author, former Children's Laureate and prize-winner with great profile across the trade, libraries and educational markets. Martin Chatterton is a prolific illustrator and writer of children's books. His books include the Nutty series (Puffin), the Bad Dog series (Scholastic) and the where. it's@ series (Egmont). He has illustrated several Sidesplitters books for Kingfisher. Martin is originally from Manchester but now lives in Australia. Tony Trimmer illustrated Sidesplitters: Seriously Silly School Jokes and Ho Ho Ho.