Budgie by Joseph Coelho
A missing budgie inspires an unlikely friendship between a young boy and his elderly neighbour in this touching Little Gem from award-winner and Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho.
Y2/3 
Early chapter
: LY - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 0.5
Book Band 13 Grey
 
Mr Buxton is always having a go at Miles and his friends for climbing the trees outside their tower block. Miles thinks he’s just a grumpy old man but when he finds a lost little budgie, Miles also discovers that he and Mr Buxton have more in common than he could ever have imagined.
 
Barrington Stoke
April 2023
paperback 9781800901407
126 x 169 x 10 (mm) 96 pages