The Parent Agency

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Wednesday

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Thursday

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Friday

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Friday Night

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Part Three: No, Wait a Minute: The World – The First One – Y’Know, This One – Might Be Kind of Enough After All

Saturday

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Really Late, Saturday Night: Way Past Barry’s Normal Bedtime

Acknowledgements

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Barry Bennett was always very upset at being called Barry. It was a stupid name for a modern nine (nearly ten) year old boy. All his friends were called things like Jake and Lukas and Taj.

In fact, they weren’t called things like that, they were called exactly that. Jake was his best friend, Lukas was his second best and Taj was his third. Although sometimes that order was reversed and Taj was first. But, either way, none of them were called anything like Barry. Barry didn’t even know anyone called anything like Barry. He didn’t know, for example, anyone called Brian. Or Colin. Or Derek. Or any other name that no boy had been called since 1953.

Being called Barry was just one – although it was pretty near the top of the list – of the many things Barry blamed his parents (Susan and Geoff: go figure…) for.

Here, in fact, is that list, which Barry kept hidden under the pillow on his bed (a bed that didn’t, by the way, have the fantastic Lionel Messi duvet on it that Lukas had):

THINGS I BLAME MY PARENTS FOR

1 Being boring.