A poignant and witty tale of an unlikely friendship from the bestelling author of Artemis Fowl<br/><br/>For Benny Shaw, nothing could be worse than having to pick up and move to Africa. Nobody there plays his favorite sport, hurling, the Tunisian heat is grueling, and even his new school is weird with its lovey-dovey hippies for teachers. How will he ever adjust to such a strange place?<br/><br/>Then Benny meets Omar, an orphan whose "English" has come from watching TV, and his life skills from surviving on the streets. The two strike up a friendship and their madcap antics quickly become the bane of village life. But when real life intervenes, the boys must take on their biggest and most dangerous ch