Philip has spent his whole life at school either being invisible or being called stupid. He's used to being the loner, the odd one out, the boy who lives with his nan. So when Philip's class is given a school assignment to write about heroes and villains, the project causes conflict in the classroom as everyone weighs in on the debate.
Philip has spent his whole school life feeling invisible. He's used to being the loner, the odd one out.When Philip's class is asked to keep diaries about any heroes and villains, tensions rise as battlelines are drawn. They discover heroes and villains who ruled nations or fought oppression, who were persecuted or persecuted others, and who struggled for justice and changed the world forever.But Philip and his class soon learn that there are heroes and villains much closer to home and that they come in many disguises.From award-winning author Elizabeth Fensham comes a book with heart for the hero in us all.
Elizabeth Fensham's first novel, Helicopter Man, won the 2006 CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers. It was followed by her young adult novels Miss McAllister's Ghost, a 2009 CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers, Goodbye Jamie Boyd, shortlisted for the 2009 Bologna Book Fair's White Ravens Award, and The Invisible Hero, winner of the 2012 Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award and listed as an IBBY Book. Elizabeth's younger reader novels include Matty Forever, shortlisted for the 2009 CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, and the companions, Bill Rules, shortlisted for the 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and Matty and Bill for Keeps. The first of the My Dog series, My Dog Doesn't Like Me, was published in 2014. Elizabeth lives in Victoria's Dandenong Ranges.
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