Charlie's Dad wins at Bingo and at last his dream can come true - a cottage with roses at the door and chickens scratching in the yard, laying lovely brown eggs...or so he thinks.

It's a disaster! The family ends up having to rent and their four 'dream' chickens are scrawny, bad-tempered things. And suddenly, instead of four, there are ten. And the next day fifteen. They start pecking at the windows, staring in with their beady eyes. And then there are twenty chickens...twenty-five...thirty...

The wicked chickens have come home to roost!

This book is part of a book series called Shock Shop .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Pan Macmillan .

Vivian French is a well-known author who has written over 150 books for children.