Author(s): Jonathan Harlen

Children Fiction

This scuttling, six-legged story will leave you bug-eyed with laughter. What do you do when the normal, friendly, suburban family next door becomes a bunch of cruel, heartless monstersmakes your life a misery? You declare war. When the Cadwalladers become not mere monsters, but without doubtsuddenly turn into the meanest, nastiest, most revolting neighbours this country has ever produced, it is time for a hero to step forward - or even better yet, several thousand heroes. The Cadwalladers might have noisy demolitions and all night partiesmore money than sense, but Toby and his sister Emma have a secret, creeping, crawling weapon, and the battle has only just begun. A cracking rattling good story that will have you crawling on the floor with laughter.by one of our best comic writers, The Cockroach War is the predecessor to Brain Scam.