Cosmic is 13 year old Liam’s favourite saying. Liam is also very tall, he has more facial hair than a 13 year old should have and he is in the Gifted and Talented class at school. Liam is, therefore, regularly mistaken for an adult and is constantly being told that he should “know better” when he acts like a 13 year old! Frank Cottrell Boyce has weaved an entertaining story out what happens when Liam decides to start acting like a grown-up to get some of the things he wants like entrance to a contest that could win him a free trip to a new theme park with rides that are “out of this world.”
Cosmic puts Liam in a situation that every teenager wants yet despises at the same time. To be treated like a grown up seems to some teens to be the answer to all of there annoying problems. As Liam finds out there is a lot to learn about being an adult, and one of those things is how to deal with teenagers. I like this book, because of the mixture of humour, drama and life lessons it presents to young adults and yet
Boyce, Frank Cottrell (2008). Cosmic. London: MacMillan Children’s Books.
