However, I personally found the sequencing of the invents a little confusing, with more and more problems rising in the plot where least expected. Overall, it is about a torn family who are grieving the death of Damian and Anthony's mum (we assume from cancer, but the book isn't clear on that).

Some parts were a little outlandish, but that's often the case with children's books so it didn't bother me. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do.I think that if the book included more action and events occurring then it could be better but the book didn’t take any big unexpected turns and didn’t include anything adventurous or out of the ordinary which is what I didn’t like. What would you do if you were praying for a miracle that would make everything better, when a bag full of money falls from the heavens?

Set in England just before British adoption of the euro (a fictional event) the story features two boys who must decide what to do with a windfall in expiring currency. Beside winning the Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, [2] [3] Millions made the shortlists for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Branford Boase Award.The boys’ are scared she is going to replace their mom when Dorothy makes lasagna from scratch just like their mom used to and they don’t want a new mom. Boyce’s book will certainly capture the interest of its target audience of upper school-age and middle-school readers.

I loved the poignant humour in it, and I thought that there was an unexpected amount of philosophical depth. This was a really cute story about growing up, and learning about how great (and burdensome) money can be.

Other than that, though, Millions was a good read, and I recommend it to people looking for a fairly challenging book. Even though the novel is written in Damian's perspective, it seems like their is still this barrier between the emotions and what is actually happening. And furthermore, and finally, albeit I certainly do kind of wonder if I might be reading just a wee bit too much into and below the surface for Millions, as someone who was closely following the political and economic debates happening both in England and elsewhere in Europe (from around 1990 to 2006) regarding the adoption or not of the Euro and the fiascos this actually ended up creating for many member nations, both that Millions was published in 2004 (when the Euro had only recently been adopted as the common currency on the continent and when there was a very heated and often volatile debate in the UK regarding this) and that the entire (fictitious) scenario of the United Kingdom switching to the Euro is definitely being shown by Frank Cottrell Boyce as really being rather negative, this does definitely make me increasingly consider Millions to be Cottrell Boyce's warning fable against the Euro replacing the British Pound Sterling (and while I definitely think that this is interesting, it is also something I do tend to find more than a bit uncomfortable, as it gives Millions a between the lines political and economic message I as an adult reader find quite annoyingly problematic). I liked the ending because I thought it was very eye opening and that the theme was a very important lesson to learn.