Joe All Alone

Joe is upset to learn that his mum and her horrible boyfriend Dean are going on holiday to Spain for a week, leaving Joe behind on his own. Relief comes when he meets Asha, who is also feeling abandoned. Shes had a fight with her mum and has, run away to live with her grandad. After an attempt to fix the toilet, Joe discovers a package, left there by dodgy Dean. Its full of £20 notes, and its got to be illegal!

Joe gets ready for school but he looks a sorry sight. His mum should have been home three days ago, hes run out of money and is almost out of food. His fear of Dean still stops Joe from touching a penny of the money he found. At break time, Joes nemesis, the bully Perry Fletcher, turns the screws on Joe a little tighter by demanding money - a pound today, two pounds tomorrow. Back at home a starving Joe eats the out-of-date curry that Dean left in the fridge, which has disastrous results and he is violently sick for two days. He cant go to school, hallucinates that Dean is in the flat, and then the electricity runs out. Can things get any worse for Joe?