Noodle Head

Marcus King - Noodle Head to his friends - is coming to the end of his six-month stint at the Dovedale Home for Young Offenders. He's settled down, he's taking his meds, and he's made some pretty good friends amongst all the wild and difficult boys at the home. Ratso, Shelly and Ravi are a pretty odd gang but they do stick together. But everything goes wrong during Hare and Hounds - a torturous and cruel chase game the boys are forced to play. Jimmy's back in trouble again. Now he's stuck at Dovedale for another stint - and who knows when they'll let him out now? A day out with their favourite teacher, Miss Wonderland sends Jimmy's situation spiralling even lower - now only a drastic solution will do...

Author Biography

Jonathan has been a Play Leader, an English and Drama teacher, and co-Director of a Traveling Children's Theater, taking plays and workshops into schools. He now writes full-time for adults, teenagers and children. He has three lively children, an overgrown allotment and a pet fox called Shonika.