Levi’s father is trying to kill him! Well, not really, but that’s what it feels like to Levi most of the time. Levi’s dad is mad keen to make movies like his favourite movie star, Joe Dangerfield. All the Dangerfield movies had death defying stunts with cars, animals, hot coals and all manner of frightening moments on screen.

Levi is the reluctant star in his dad’s new movie, but is too nice to tell his dad that he is completely bonkers. In fact the entire town where they live – Mount Cabbage, is famous for and especially welcoming to creative types and free thinkers. This can be dangerous, as Levi knows too well.

Even since his mum left “…for some space…” Dad’s desire to work with Levi on his new film is all encompassing. (Dad wasn’t really listening to his wife, as usual, and thinks she has gone to Mars.)

An upcoming stunt is worrying Levi the most. Leaping a car across a pit full of metal spikes is a step too far in his opinion but he’s not sure how to tell Dad.

This is where his best friend Maya comes in. It does help that she is an evil genius, a budding supervillain, and a girl with severe burglarising tendencies. She has a plan for Levi to avoid being impaled which is brilliant – except for when it goes horribly sideways. Levi is now in more strife than ever!

This story about a reluctant stunt star with a habit of alphabetising everything, avoiding telling his dad the truth, and preventing his best friend from performing lethal plots, is zany, crazy, and slapstick funny.

Mount Cabbage is a town filled with oddballs including an ex movie star hiding from something in his past, an artist who believes her sculptures are rapturous (NOT), and a school librarian acting like a spy. Law and order comes in the shape of Detective Foo – an over-the-top-cop with a talking horse. Told you it was nuts!

Jam packed with hilarious illustrations, Stunt Kid Seriously Stacks It! is the first in a series by talented Australian Author Jack Heath. Whether writing for adults or children, Heath captures his readers every time.

Author – Jack Heath

Illustrator – Max Rambaldi

Age – 8+

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